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A U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman with 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, uses a battlefield assisted trauma documentation kit during a simulated mass casualty exercise during Exercise Steel Knight 25 at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, Dec. 6, 2025. Steel Knight is an annual exercise that strengthens the Navy-Marine Corps team's ability to respond forward, integrate across domains, and sustain Marine Air-Ground Task Force readiness. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Michael Bartman)

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U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Nathan Wilson, a general duty nursing services corpsman assigned to the hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19), places a connectivity terminal on top of a Rapid Emplacement Medical (REM) during Exercise Steel Knight at Naval Air Station North Island in Coronado, California, Dec. 2, 2025. The Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory/Futures Directorate examines future operating environments to generate threat-informed operating concepts and capabilities and, through experimentation, provide analytically supported recommendations to inform future force design and development activities. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Michael Bartman)

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U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Ashlyn Gilmore, a general duty nursing services corpsman assigned to the hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19), establishes connectivity inside a Rapid Emplacement Medical (REM) during Exercise Steel Knight at Naval Air Station North Island in Coronado, California, Dec. 2, 2025. The Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory/Futures Directorate examines future operating environments to generate threat-informed operating concepts and capabilities and, through experimentation, provide analytically supported recommendations to inform future force design and development activities. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Michael Bartman)

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U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Ashlyn Gilmore, a general duty nursing services corpsman assigned to the hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19), left, and Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Nathan Wilson, a general duty nursing services corpsman assigned to the hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19), assembles a Rapid Emplacement Medical (REM) during Exercise Steel Knight at Naval Air Station North Island in Coronado, California, Dec. 2, 2025. The Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory/Futures Directorate examines future operating environments to generate threat-informed operating concepts and capabilities and, through experimentation, provide analytically supported recommendations to inform future force design and development activities. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Michael Bartman)

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U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Julia Cash, assigned to the hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19), assembles a Rapid Emplacement Medical (REM) during Exercise Steel Knight at Naval Air Station North Island in Coronado, California, Dec. 2, 2025. The Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory/Futures Directorate examines future operating environments to generate threat-informed operating concepts and capabilities and, through experimentation, provide analytically supported recommendations to inform future force design and development activities. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Michael Bartman)

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U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Julia Cash, assigned to the hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19), attaches a power strip inside a Rapid Emplacement Medical (REM) during Exercise Steel Knight at Naval Air Station North Island in Coronado, California, Dec. 2, 2025. The Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory/Futures Directorate examines future operating environments to generate threat-informed operating concepts and capabilities and, through experimentation, provide analytically supported recommendations to inform future force design and development activities. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Michael Bartman)

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U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Anael Padilla, a preventive medicine technician assigned to the hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19), assembles a Rapid Emplacement Medical (REM) during Exercise Steel Knight at Naval Air Station North Island in Coronado, California, Dec. 2, 2025. The Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory/Futures Directorate examines future operating environments to generate threat-informed operating concepts and capabilities and, through experimentation, provide analytically supported recommendations to inform future force design and development activities. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Michael Bartman)

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U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Nathan Wilson, a general duty nursing services corpsman assigned to the hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19), left, and Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Lindsay McCarthney, a general duty nursing services corpsman assigned to the hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19), expand a Rapid Emplacement Medical (REM) during Exercise Steel Knight at Naval Air Station North Island in Coronado, California, Dec. 2, 2025. The Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory/Futures Directorate examines future operating environments to generate threat-informed operating concepts and capabilities and, through experimentation, provide analytically supported recommendations to inform future force design and development activities. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Michael Bartman)

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U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Ashlyn Gilmore, a general duty nursing services corpsman assigned to the hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19), left, Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Nathan Wilson, a general duty nursing services corpsman assigned to the hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19), center, and Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Lindsay McCarthney, a general duty nursing services corpsman assigned to the hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19), deploy a Rapid Emplacement Medical (REM) during Exercise Steel Knight at Naval Air Station North Island in Coronado, California, Dec. 2, 2025. The Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory/Futures Directorate examines future operating environments to generate threat-informed operating concepts and capabilities and, through experimentation, provide analytically supported recommendations to inform future force design and development activities. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Michael Bartman)

Photo by Cpl. Michael Bartman

U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Ashlyn Gilmore, a general duty nursing services corpsman assigned to the hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19), center, assembles a Rapid Emplacement Medical (REM) during Exercise Steel Knight at Naval Air Station North Island in Coronado, California, Dec. 2, 2025. The Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory/Futures Directorate examines future operating environments to generate threat-informed operating concepts and capabilities and, through experimentation, provide analytically supported recommendations to inform future force design and development activities. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Michael Bartman)

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A Rapid Emplacement Medical (REM) is placed during Exercise Steel Knight at Naval Air Station North Island in Coronado, California, Dec. 2, 2025. The Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory/Futures Directorate examines future operating environments to generate threat-informed operating concepts and capabilities and, through experimentation, provide analytically supported recommendations to inform future force design and development activities. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Michael Bartman)

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A Rapid Emplacement Medical (REM) is staged during Exercise Steel Knight at Naval Air Station North Island in Coronado, California, Dec. 2, 2025. The Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory/Futures Directorate examines future operating environments to generate threat-informed operating concepts and capabilities and, through experimentation, provide analytically supported recommendations to inform future force design and development activities. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Michael Bartman)

Photo by Cpl. Michael Bartman

A U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman with 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, uses a battlefield assisted trauma documentation kit to document care during a simulated mass casualty exercise during Exercise Steel Knight 25 at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, Dec. 6, 2025. Steel Knight is an annual exercise that strengthens the Navy-Marine Corps team's ability to respond forward, integrate across domains, and sustain Marine Air-Ground Task Force readiness. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Michael Bartman)

Photo by Cpl. Michael Bartman

A U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman with 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, uses a battlefield assisted trauma documentation kit to document care during a simulated mass casualty exercise during Exercise Steel Knight 25 at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, Dec. 6, 2025. Steel Knight is an annual exercise that strengthens the Navy-Marine Corps team's ability to respond forward, integrate across domains, and sustain Marine Air-Ground Task Force readiness. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Michael Bartman)

Photo by Cpl. Michael Bartman

A U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman with 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, uses a battlefield assisted trauma documentation kit to document care during a simulated mass casualty exercise during Exercise Steel Knight 25 at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, Dec. 6, 2025. Steel Knight is an annual exercise that strengthens the Navy-Marine Corps team's ability to respond forward, integrate across domains, and sustain Marine Air-Ground Task Force readiness. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Michael Bartman)

Photo by Cpl. Michael Bartman

A U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman with 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, uses a battlefield assisted trauma documentation kit to document care during a simulated mass casualty exercise during Exercise Steel Knight 25 at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, Dec. 6, 2025. Steel Knight is an annual exercise that strengthens the Navy-Marine Corps team's ability to respond forward, integrate across domains, and sustain Marine Air-Ground Task Force readiness. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Michael Bartman)

Photo by Cpl. Michael Bartman

A U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman with 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, uses a battlefield assisted trauma documentation kit to document care during a simulated mass casualty exercise during Exercise Steel Knight 25 at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, Dec. 6, 2025. Steel Knight is an annual exercise that strengthens the Navy-Marine Corps team's ability to respond forward, integrate across domains, and sustain Marine Air-Ground Task Force readiness. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Michael Bartman)

Photo by Cpl. Michael Bartman

A U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman with 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, uses a battlefield assisted trauma documentation kit to document care during a simulated mass casualty exercise during Exercise Steel Knight 25 at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, Dec. 6, 2025. Steel Knight is an annual exercise that strengthens the Navy-Marine Corps team's ability to respond forward, integrate across domains, and sustain Marine Air-Ground Task Force readiness. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Michael Bartman)

Photo by Cpl. Michael Bartman

A U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman with 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, uses a battlefield assisted trauma documentation kit to document care during a simulated mass casualty exercise during Exercise Steel Knight 25 at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, Dec. 6, 2025. Steel Knight is an annual exercise that strengthens the Navy-Marine Corps team's ability to respond forward, integrate across domains, and sustain Marine Air-Ground Task Force readiness. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Michael Bartman)

Photo by Cpl. Michael Bartman

From left, U.S. Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Eric Austin, Deputy Commandant of Combat Development and Integration (CD&I), LTG Hiroe Jiro, Commanding General of Training-Evaluation, Education, Research and Development Command (TERCOM), Japan Ground Self-Defense Force, and U.S. Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Benjamin Watson, Commanding General of Training and Education Command (TECOM), hold signed copies of the Terms of Reference (TOR), defining the framework for future exchanges between TERCOM, CD&I, and TECOM agreeing to further deepen their relationship moving forward. “Our talks this week are a tremendous opportunity and responsibility to discuss how we best complement each other and to put these ideas into action,” said Austin. "The discussions this week are an important opportunity for us to continue to strengthen our partnership for the future," said Hiroe. "It is paramount for peace and security in East Asia." (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Connor Taggart)

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