POTD: U.S. Marines & Japanese Military Train Together
Subject: Photo Of The Day
Location: Okinawa, Japan, April 2021.
What’s going on?
Above you can see a U.S. Marine with 5th Air Naval Gunfire Liaison Company, III Marine Expeditionary Force Information Group, as he provides security. The 5th ANGLICO conducted air and surface fire support integration training alongside soldiers of the Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade and the 15th Brigade of the Japanese Ground Self-Defense.
This was during a bilateral training focused on the ability of a multi-national combined force to provide air and surface fire support from advanced bases within the Indo-Pacific region.
Below: Examining the M203 grenade launcher.
Below: A group of soldiers communicating with two MV-22B Osprey Tiltrotor Aircraft with Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 265.
Below: A U.S. Marine Corps UH-1Y Venom helicopter assigned to Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron (HMLA) 267, prepares to land.
Below: A U.S. Marine Corps AH-1Z Viper assigned to Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron (HMLA) 267, fires at a target. Note the empty shells falling.
Photo by U.S. Marine Corps, taken by Lance Cpl. Brienna Tuck.
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Figured the last of the M203s would have been phased out by now.
Can everybody just pick a camo like when we had BDUs and stick with it and stop trying to out think mother nature????? The amount of procurement $$$, changes because it didn't work etc. in the last 28 years is mind boggling. Government waste in action.