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Video by Sgt. Tyler Andrews
Iron Fist 25 | 31st MEU and JGSDF 1st ARDR conduct Bilateral Amphibious Landing
31st Marine Expeditionary Unit
March 1, 2025 | 1:49
U.S. Marines with 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, and Japan Ground Self-Defense Force members with 1st Amphibious Rapid Deployment Regiment, conduct a bilateral amphibious landing display during Iron Fist 25, at Kin Blue Beach Training Area, Okinawa, Japan, Mar. 1, 2025. Iron Fist is an annual bilateral exercise designed to increase interoperability and strengthen the relationships between the U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Navy and Japan Ground Self-Defense Force. The 31st MEU, the Marine Corps’ only continuously forward-deployed MEU, provides a flexible and lethal force, ready to perform a wide range of military operations as the premiere crisis response force in the Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Sgt. Tyler Andrews)
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