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  • Juvats supply Red Air support to the Marine Corps

    06/01/2007 4:50:06 PM PDT · by Jet Jaguar · 2 replies · 248+ views
    f-16.net ^ | May 30, 2007 | MSgt Sean P. Houlihan
    The term "joint operations" in todays military is thought of American service members carrying out missions with service members from different branches of the U.S. military or coalition partners working together. For two units, one in Japan and the other in the Republic of Korea, joint operations went in a different direction as the mission wasn't against one adversary force but against each other. Marine Corps aviators stationed at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan flew simulated combat mission against opposing forces, commonly referred to as Red Air, pilots from 80th Fighter Squadron here. The 80th FS deployed to Iwakuni...
  • Typhoon Ewiniar forecast to hit South Korea on Monday

    07/08/2006 11:09:24 PM PDT · by bd476 · 10 replies · 1,304+ views
    Stars and Stripes ^ | July 9, 2006 | Dave Ornauer
    Typhoon Ewiniar forecast to hit South Korea on Monday By Dave Ornauer, Stars and Stripes Pacific edition, Sunday, July 9, 2006 CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — Like a slow-moving predator, Typhoon Ewiniar continued tracking further northwest on Friday and appeared as if it would spare U.S. bases in southwestern Japan much of its bite. But the fourth storm of the northwest Pacific’s typhoon season remained a threat to Okinawa and put another target squarely in its crosshairs: the Korean peninsula. The Joint Typhoon Warning Center forecast Ewiniar would graze Okinawa to its west late Saturday, then make landfall along Korea’s west...
  • U.S. Mulls Stationing 2 Carriers in Japan(much closer to China than Hawaii)

    05/05/2005 6:10:55 AM PDT · by TigerLikesRooster · 51 replies · 1,199+ views
    Chosun Ilbo ^ | 05/05/05
    /begin my translationU.S. Mulls Stationing 2 Carriers in Japan Tokyo: Yonhap News05/05/05 As a part of reorganizing overseas deployments, U.S. military is considering the Sasebo naval base as the home port for two carriers which will be deployed in the Western Pacific, according to Tokyo Shimbun, quoting a U.S. military source in Japan today. The source also disclosed that U.S. military asked Japan to permit the use of Iwakuni base in Yamaguchi Perfecture as the living quarters for carrier-based aircraft crews.  U.S. government plans to deploy two aircraft carriers in the Western Pacific. Pearl Harbor has been the leading candidate, while U.S. have...