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"Variety Of Threats": U.S., Japan Hold Joint Military Exercise

III Marine Expeditionary Force Public Affairs
February 2, 2010

U.S., Japan Forces Join for Exercise Keen Edge 2010
Cpl. Rebekka S. Heite
OKINAWA MARINE STAFF

CAMP FOSTER: More than 100 U.S. Marines, Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Japanese Self Defense Force soldiers on Okinawa worked with their counterparts on mainland Japan on several real-world scenarios taking place in Japan during Exercise Keen Edge 2010 Jan. 22 through Wednesday.

"[Keen Edge] is a joint, bilateral exercise where U.S. forces in Japan team up with [JSDF soldiers] and execute a command post exercise through different operations centers dispersed within mainland Japan and Okinawa," said Maj. Brian Sanchez, lead planner of the exercise from Marine Corps Base Camp Butler G-3.

The biennial exercise was a 24-hour day, weeklong exercise in which U.S. and Japanese forces worked together to complete the mission.

The focus of Keen Edge was "working as one team to defeat a variety of threats that Pacific forces would face in a realistic scenario," added Lt. Col. Daniel Ircink, senior watch officer from Marine Corps Base Camp Butler G-3.
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