PHILIPPINE SEA (Feb. 13, 2020) Service members with the Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade (ARDB), Japan Self-Defense Force, board a CH-47 helicopter with the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) aboard Whidbey Island-class the dock landing ship USS Germantown (LSD 42). Service members of the JGSDF and ARDB conducted two weeks of training alongside the Marines and Sailors of the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) in order to strengthen bilateral amphibious capabilities. Germantown, part of the America Expeditionary Strike Group, 31st MEU team, is operating in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations to enhance interoperability with allies and partners and serve as a ready response force to defend peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific region. (Official U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Joshua Sechser)
Date Taken: | 02.13.2020 |
Date Posted: | 05.07.2020 02:51 |
Category: | B-Roll |
Video ID: | 751257 |
VIRIN: | 200212-M-IB436-2001 |
Filename: | DOD_107802600 |
Length: | 00:03:33 |
Location: | PHILIPPINE SEA |
Downloads: | 50 |
High-Res. Downloads: | 50 |
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