Junior Recruit Day shapes youth
April 9, 2016 — Military families and children encompass an integral support system for Marines and sailors. Children of service member’s assigned to Marine Aircraft Group 12 dependent children participated in Junior Recruit Day at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, April 8, 2016. MORE
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USFJ sets new alcohol limits for on-base driving
April 1, 2016 — New changes to a U.S. Forces, Japan, regulation will impact how much alcohol drivers on U.S. installations can have in their bloodstreams and still be considered fit to drive. MORE
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Mass Casualty Exercise tests emergency services
March 28, 2016 — Marines, Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force personnel and the Iwakuni City Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services conducted Mass Casualty Exercise 2016 at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, March 23, 2016.Conducted in preparation for the JMSDF/MCAS Iwakuni Friendship Day 2016 Air Show, the exercise simulated a dual aircraft collision MORE
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New commercial flights come to Iwakuni Kintaikyo Airport
March 28, 2016 — The Iwakuni Kintaikyo Airport Use Promotion Council and distinguished guests celebrated the addition of two new flights to the facility, March 27, 2016. MORE
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Marines, Japanese sniff out explosives
March 28, 2016 — Marines from the Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni Provost Marshal’s Office K-9 unit trained with Hiroshima Prefectural Police Headquarters policemen and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Kure Repair and Supply Facility Petroleum Terminal military working dog handlers at MCAS Iwakuni, Japan, March 22, 2016.Trained in a variety of areas such as MORE
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Marines visit Tottori Sand Dunes, temples
March 25, 2016 — Created by sediment deposits carried from the Chugoku Mountains by the Sendai River into the Sea of Japan over the course of thousands of years, Marines traveled to the sand dunes in Tottori Sakyu, Japan, as part of a Single Marine Program trip March 19-20, 2016.This is the first time the SMP, based on Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, MORE
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Werewolves join the pack at MCAS Iwakuni
March 25, 2016 — Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 122, from Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, South Carolina, arrived at MCAS Iwakuni, Japan, March 14, 2016.VMFA-122, also known as the “Werewolves,” is in Iwakuni on a six month rotation with the unit deployment program that deploys units to the Pacific region. The F/A-18C Hornet squadron is replacing VMFA(AW)-224, MORE
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Japanese service members enhance English skills with Marines
March 18, 2016 — Soldiers with the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force’s 13th Brigade Headquarters on Camp Kaitaichi, Hiroshima, Japan, participated in a three-day English seminar held at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, March 15-17, 2016. MORE
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From art, music to sailor of the year
March 18, 2016 — Every year there is a sailor that stands out among the rest throughout various Marine Corps bases and air stations in the Pacific and earns the title of Marine Corps Installations Pacific Junior Sailor of the Year.On March 10, 2016, Petty Officer 3rd Class Jason Aguirre, a logistics specialist with Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron on Marine MORE
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Black Knights fly beak-to-beak with Japanese aviators
March 17, 2016 — Marines with Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 314 executed dissimilar air combat training and bilateral tactical mission training during the Komatsu Aviation Training Relocation exercise at Komatsu Air Base, Japan, March 7-18, 2016.Komatsu ATR is a dissimilar air combat training exercise allowing pilots with diverse aircraft to simulate aerial MORE
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