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U.S. Army Command Sgt. Maj. Kendrick Daniels, assigned to the 11th Airborne Division, discusses how Yama Sakura 91 brings U.S. Army, Japan Ground Self-Defense Force and Australian Army personnel together to build trust, strengthen interoperability and improve their ability to operate as a combined team during an interview at Camp Higashi-Chitose, Japan, Sept. 8, 2026.
Exercises like Yama Sakura are about more than training. They build relationships, develop people and create the trust required to operate together when it matters most.
Through realistic training across distributed locations, participating forces integrate personnel, processes and modern capabilities while improving resilient command and control, operational access and sustainment. These shared experiences strengthen partnerships, enhance readiness and demonstrate credible, lethal combined land power.
Yama Sakura 91 reinforces collective deterrence and the participating nations’ shared commitment to a free, open and secure Indo-Pacific.
Stronger partnerships. Greater interoperability. One combined team.
| Date Taken: | 09.08.2026 |
| Date Posted: | 09.09.2026 23:56 |
| Category: | Interviews |
| Video ID: | 1022317 |
| VIRIN: | 260909-A-AO454-5036 |
| Filename: | DOD_111962542 |
| Length: | 00:01:33 |
| Location: | JP |
| Downloads: | 1 |
| High-Res. Downloads: | 1 |
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