Marines TV

The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force and Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni host Friendship Day 2025 at MCAS Iwakuni, Japan, May 4, 2025. The JMSDF-MCAS Iwakuni Friendship Day is hosted annually to strengthen relationships with the host community and offer a cultural exchange that highlights the mutual support between the U.S. and Japan. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Colin Thibault)

U.S. Marines with Headquarters and Support battalion, Marine Corps Installations Pacific, host a spousal community engagement seminar on MCB Camp Lester, Okinawa, Japan, March. 06, 2025. The symposium was held to educate service members’ spouses on available resources, programs, and employment opportunities, while gathering feedback to identify potential improvements and increase overall involvement in the camp and local Okinawa community. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Sgt. Frank Webb)

Freedom Banner 25 is a Maritime Prepositioning Force offload that provides equipment and support to III Marine Expeditionary Force units for the exercises Korean Marine Exchange Program 25.1 and Freedom Shield 25. U.S. Marines and Sailors will conduct beach landing operations to test and validate 3rd Marine Logistics Group’s ability to conduct integrated logistics operations in a complex and contested environment, enhancing the expeditious transport and distribution of supplies in a combat environment or life-saving aid in humanitarian assistance and disaster relief operations. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Rachel Mason)

U.S. Marine Corps 1st Lt. Luke Lockhart, a legal assistance attorney with Legal Services Support Section, Marine Corps Installations Pacific, describes what services are offered for Status of Forces Agreement personnel in Okinawa, Japan. The unit’s open hours are from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. More details about LSSS can be found on their website at www.mcbbutler.marines.mil/Base-Information/Legal-Assistance. Lockhart is a native of Missouri. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Sgt. Frank Webb)

U.S. Marines with III Marine Expeditionary Force have conducted a multitude of exercises and operations across the Indo-Pacific throughout 2024. III MEF provides the Marine Corps a globally responsive, expeditionary, and fully scalable Marine Air-Ground Task Force, capable of generating, deploying, and employing ready forces and formations across the Pacific. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Blake Gonter)