31st MEU Marines embark USNavy's USS Germantown in Okinawa, Japan, prior to operating in 7th Fleet to serve as a ready response force to defend peace & stability in the region.
The USS Ronald Reagan carrier strike group, five Australian warships, and a Japanese destroyer conducted a trilateral naval exercise in the Philippine Sea last week.
Japan Self-Defense Force unveiled the Type 20 next-generation 5.56mm service rifle along with the new H&K VP9 service pistol. The under-barrel grenade launcher is said to be Beretta GLX 160.
Type 20 will replace existing Type 89 service rifles, which funnily enough never fully replaced the older Type 64 due to JSDF's infamously slow procurement rate.
Around 3,000 rifles will be distributed this year, with the JGSDF's Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade being the first user. Japanese Ministry of Defense estimates it will take 30 YEARS to fully distribute 150,000 rifles.
Each rifle is said to cost 280,000 yen (around $2,600), which is surprisingly cheaper than foreign counterparts such as the HK416 and SCAR-L.
Meanwhile, the Republic of Korea Armed Forces likely won't develop a new service rifle for the foreseeable future. It appears that South Korea is keeping a close tab on US military's trials on 6.8mm cartridge, having begun its own 6.8mm cartridge development program.
Instead, S&T Motiv K2C1 was chosen as an interim service rifle to augment the existing K2. K2C1 entered service in 2016 and are being distributed across various branches, while existing K1 carbines will likely be replaced by a new 5.56mm carbine.
A Boeing F-15J from the Japan Air Self-Defense Force sports impressive art depicting Mount Fuji, Mount Tsukuba, and cherry blossoms, as it flies over Hyakuri, Japan in 2005. The aircraft was painted in Nihonga, or traditional Japanese style, for the 50th anniversary of the JASDF. ©Katsuhiko Tokunaga
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Skull of a Imperial Japanese sniper that was brought back to the states from the battle of Guadalcanal.
Details are in Picture 3.
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I was fortunate enough today to walk on grounds where scores of men lost their lives in the defense of freedom.
Imagine, a fight that’s not measured by miles but by feet or inches.
A Battle where it took an Army division 5 days to move 4 and half miles.
A Battle where you and your buddies are told that there is a predicted 80% casualty rate.
Reading more of the accounts and details online about the Battle of Okinawa, and seeing first hand the terrain our predecessors had to fight through, really puts a lot of things into perspective.
Got to do some Inter-Operational training with the Japanese Ground Self Defense Force.
Got a little more sun then I wanted.
This is my jam. #MSG3 #CalorieMate #Japan
“On September 18th, Japan made a bold move that managed to do three very distinct things: 1. Rewrite a law structure that the country's military has been laboring under for seven decades. 2. Change the standard daily footing of their military. 3. Piss off to no end almost everyone in the region and inside the country itself. No biggie.“
For disaster relief in accordance with the isolated’s rescue, etc. due to the heavy rain in Ibaraki Prefecture
September 10 (Thursday) heavy rain special alarm in Ibaraki Prefecture is generated, overtopping occurred in Kinugawa. The same day 9:05, there was a disaster relief request to the Ground Self-Defense Force facility school length (land Major General Kose Mikio) from Ibaraki Governor.
From the Prime Minister and the Minister of Defense, receives an instruction for thorough emergency measures in primary human life, facility school of current Ground Self-Defense Force (Katsuta), the first facility Orchestra (Furukawa), eastern direction Air Corps (Tachikawa), second 1 helicopter Orchestra (Kisarazu), the 12th Helicopter Squadron (Utsunomiya), Baili rescue corps of the Air Self-Defense Force (Baili) is has implemented the disaster relief activities.
Final photo set of us teaching the Japanese Ground Self Defense Force on the subject of boat raids.
Last photo is of our CO’s doing a gift exchange after we finished the training.
Last set of photos on my company on deployment.
U.S. Marines with Company F, Battalion Landing Team 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), conduct an amphibious assault with soldiers of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) as part of the Japanese Observer Exchange Program at Kin Blue, Okinawa, Japan, April 28, 2015. The JGSDF was integrated with the 31st MEU in order to better understand amphibious operations.
(U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Richard Currier/ released)
Earlier this month, Japan's Ministry of Defense rolled out a nearly 20-minute-long cartoon as part of a public relations offensive to explain the country's military to the public. Although it might seem odd, it makes sense when you consider the fact that Japanese military is in a unique position in the world: the country isn't actually allowed to even have a military.
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