Videos

U.S. Forces and Japan Self-Defense Forces simulate casualty evacuation and stabilization procedures during Remote Island Disaster Exercise 2021, Okinawa, Japan, Nov. 2, 2021. RIDEX is a humanitarian assistance/disaster relief exercise between U.S. and Japan Forces that enhances the bilateral capabilities for casualty rescue operations and expeditionary medical assistance in the event of sudden disasters. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Madison Santamaria and Lance Cpl. Yvonne Iwae)

U.S. Marines with 2d Battalion, 3d Marines, and Combat Logistics Battalion 4, 3rd Marine Logistics Group, conduct an integrated rapid response inspection at Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, Japan, August 25, 2021. Routine short-notice inspections ensure III MEF Marines remain ready to rapidly deploy and maintain regional security in the Indo-pacific. 2/3 is currently deployed under 4th Marine Regiment. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Kelly A. Snyder)

U.S. Marines with 3rd Battalion, 12th Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division, participate in a High Mobility Artillery Rocket System Rapid Infiltration exercise at Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, Japan, Aug. 20, 2020. This exercise allowed the Marines to increase their proficiency in mobilizing from an aircraft to a firing location, executing a firing mission, and quickly exfiltrate to receive future missions. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Jacob Hancock)

U.S. Marines with 3rd Battalion, 12th Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division, coordinate simulated firing missions with the Air Force's 623rd Air Control Squadron during a digital communication exercise on Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, Japan, Aug. 19, 2020. The communication exercise afforded Marines and Airmen the opportunity to improve their interoperability and capability to communicate real-time targeting information. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Jacob Hancock)

Tsutomu Yamashiro, an instructor with the Installations Safety Office, teaches Marines how to ride motorcycles at Kadena Air Base March 8th, 2018.

Cpl. Kodiak McBrayer, a cryogenics equipment operator with Marine Wing Liaison Kadena, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, discovered a fault that would ignite change within the Marine Corps and Navy forever. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Jessica Etheridge)

A sneak peek and behind the scenes look of "Get to know your UDP" video series. Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 369 is currently on the unit deployment program and will spend six months based out of Okinawa, Japan. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Andy Martinez)

Medical personnel with 3rd Medical Battalion, 18th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron, and 1st Air Defense Artillery Battalion participated in the Joint En route Care Course Dec. 13, 2017, at Marine Corps Air Station Futenma and Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, Japan. The course provided hands-on training to Navy, Army and Air Force medical personnel to qualify them to provide pre-, mid- and post-flight medical care to patients being flown to medical facilities. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Sgt. Tiffany Edwards)

U.S. Marines and Airmen finish a hot pit refuel of an F-35B Lightning II aircraft at Kadena Air Force Base, Okinawa, Japan, June 27, 2017. The Marines are with Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 121, Marine Aircraft Group 12, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, III Marine Expeditionary Force, and the Airmen are with 18th Logistics and Readiness Squadron, 353 Special Operations Group, 18th Wing. The two-day exercise enabled the U.S. Air Force and Marine Corps to improve interoperability and develop tactics, techniques and procedures involving the new aircraft for future joint FARP operations throughout the Indo-Asia Pacific Theater.