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Marines

Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan

News Stories

Archive: January, 2007

MWSS-171 Marines smooth out Japanese main service route

Exercise Bulldozer remained true to its name Saturday as engineers from Marine Wing Support Squadron 171 used heavy equipment to repair a 300-meter stretch of dirt road here. The Marines practiced and broadened their skills behind a D7-G bulldozer while performing much-needed repairs on a main service route used by the Japan Ground Self Defense

Iwo Jima: Where uncommon valor was a common virtue

On Feb. 17, 1945, Marines invaded a small island in the Pacific Ocean, defended by 22,000 Japanese Imperial soldiers. During the month-long battle, almost every Japanese soldier would be killed, and the devil dogs would suffer approximately 26,000 casualties – making it one of the biggest battles in the history of the Marine Corps. Service members

Corpsman keeps MWSS-171 healthy, safe during Exercise Bulldozer

Watching TV., surfing the internet and playing video games are some ways service members here, enjoy their downtime. But sitting alone at a small table in the base’s food court, finds one service member studying a thick medical text book. While some might be tempted to call him a bookworm, his fellow Marines know him by one name only: “Doc.”

U.S. Forces, JGSDF conclude Exercise Active Shield

Soldiers from the Japan Ground Self Defense Force and U.S. forces concluded Exercise Active Shield VII, Jan. 18. The exercise, Jan. 16-18, included the JGSDF’s 46th Infantry Regiment, 13th Brigade, U.S. Army 83rd Ordnance Battalion from Kawakami, Japan, and Marines from the Provost Marshal’s Office here. “For us to truly function as a base cluster,