U.S. Marines integrate with soldiers from the Japan Ground-Self Defense Force to detonate claymore mines and Bangalore torpedoes on the demolition range Aug. 19, 2017, in Hokudaien, Japan, in support of Northern Viper 17. Northern Viper is a large scale exercise that has many bilateral training opportunities that help strengthen the capabilities of the United States and the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force. The Marines are combat engineers with Combat Assault Battalion, 3rd Marine Division, III Marine Expeditionary Force. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Charles Plouffe)
Marines and Sailors with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit completed the twice annual Certification Exercise, Aug. 18, 2017, planning and accomplishing a rigorous series of missions at Shoalwater Bay Training Area, Queensland, Australia.
Marines with 1st Marine Aircraft Wing and 3rd Marine Division, III Marine Expeditionary Force, participated alongside members of the Japan Self Defense Force in the opening ceremony of Northern Viper 2017 yesterday in Hokudaien, Japan.
MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP BUTLER, Okinawa, Japan – Three U.S. Marines have been declared deceased subsequent to extensive search and rescue efforts when an MV-22B Osprey tiltrotor aircraft entered the water approximately 18 miles off the coast of the Shoalwater Bay Training Area, Queensland, Australia, the evening of August 5.
Search and rescue operations continue for three U.S. Marines that were aboard an MV-22 Osprey involved in a mishap off of the east coast of Australia around 4:00 p.m. Aug. 5. Twenty-three of 26 personnel aboard have been rescued.
