After the overhaul, the USS George Washington resumed forward deployment in Japan. Conducting flight drills on Iwo Jima ...

An F-35B Lightning II aircraft with Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 211 lands at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan ... another U.S.-based UDP [Unit Deployment Program] squadron, to enhance ...

Marine Corps Lance Cpl ... squadron based out of Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Arizona, has deployed to MCAS Iwakuni, Japan, under the Marine Corps Unit Deployment Program.

The Arizona-based F-35B unit was also deployed to Japan under the Unit Deployment Program. Prior to the arrival of the two F-35B squadrons from Arizona, Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni was ...

A fourth squadron of F-35B Lightning IIs arrived in Japan ... Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 211 at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Ariz., arrived Saturday at MCAS Iwakuni under the Unit Deployment ...

The United States Marine Corps has ... Avengers,” to Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Iwakuni, Japan, signaling a strategic shift in U.S. military posture across the Indo-Pacific. As part of the Marine ...

MCAS Iwakuni, Japan, hosted on May 4, 2025, the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force-Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni Friendship ... The new photos now confirm the deployment of the weapon with ...

IWAKUNI, Yamaguchi -- Aerial acrobatics and ground attractions drew some 130,000 people, according to organizers, to the annual Friendship Day festival at U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni ...

Japan, a key United States treaty ally in Northeast Asia, has expanded its F-35A stealth fighter aircraft deployment amid persistent Russian military activities near the country. Newsweek has ...

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This inaugural deployment ... Marine Aircraft Group 13, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, signals an F-35B Lightning II aircraft during post-flight procedures at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan ...

Instead, the squadron sent four of them ahead to Iwakuni, Japan, for the bulk of the deployment—a first ... would if they were back home at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma.