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American and Japanese officials cut a ribbon, officially opening the new flight line here to flight operations during a commissioning ceremony May 29. After the ribbon cutting, a Marine F/A-18 Hornet and a Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force P-3 Orion symbolically closed the old runway with a final take off from it and officially opened the new runway by landing on it.
100529-M-1726B-053.jpg Photo By: Lance Cpl. Marcel C. Brown

May 29, 2010
American and Japanese officials cut a ribbon, officially opening the new flight line here to flight operations during a commissioning ceremony May 29. After the ribbon cutting, a Marine F/A-18 Hornet and a Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force P-3 Orion symbolically closed the old runway with a final take off from it and officially opened the new runway by landing on it.


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