base personnel in Japan, abandonment of the plan to relocate Marine Corps Air Station Futenma base within the prefecture and scaling down of the U.S. Okinawa parliament passes resolution demanding withdrawal of U.S. Marines Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point's flying squadron Marine Transport ...
Marine Corps Air Station Futenma is a Marine Corps military facility located 10 km from Naha, in Ginowan, Japan. It is the active installations run by the U.S.
Signs of a growing US-Japan split in Okinawa base dispute?(USA)(Marine Corps Air Station Futenma)The Pentagon has agreed to shrink the size of its forces, but the Japanese prime minister vowed to get an unpopular Okinawa base moved entirely. Officials will try to resolve the US-Japan ...
Okinawa Governor Takeshi Onaga is a stanch advocate of lessening the island's burden by at first blocking the planned transfer of the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma from the crowed area of Ginowan to the coastal Nago region also on the island, and along with other prefectural offici...
"To protect the lives and human rights of the people in Okinawa, it is urgent that U.S. bases be significantly reduced and consolidated, and for Marines to withdraw from Okinawa," the resolution said, adding that plans to relocate the Marine Corps Air Station Futenma should also be scrapped...
One of those rescued by the Japanese Self-Defense Forces (SDF) was in the F/A-18 fighter jet and was taken to the Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni in western Japan, where he is said to be in a stable condition, Japanese officials said. ...
Inside the U.S. base in Okinawa at the heart of a coronavirus outbreak CBS News given access to Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, the epicenter of a COVID-19 outbreak that has almost doubled Okinawa's case count. Jul 17, 2020
Tensions are already high over a plan to relocate a Marine Corps air station to a less-populated part of Okinawa. About half of about 50,000 U.S. troops stationed in Japan are on the island, and many residents resent the burden they bear for the defense of Japan and the region. The...
The Marine Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Squadron (VMU) 3 “Phantoms,” hit the operational milestone June 20 out of Marine Corps Air Station Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, according to a press release. The event is significant because typically when units do launch and recovery missio...
Jennifer Pirante | Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni | Date: 04.20.2011 IWAKUNI, Japan - Marine Aircraft Group 12 welcomed Marine-Attack Squadron 211 into its hangars here April 6 as the squadron nears the end of its Western Pacific deployment. To continue reading: http://www.dvidshub.net/...