Videos

U.S. Marines with Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 112, operating out of Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, and Navy squadrons aboard Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson, participated in a joint maritime strike rehearsal off the coast of Okinawa, Japan, Nov. 19, 2021. U.S. Forces routinely train and rehearse joint maritime mission sets in order to maintain readiness to carry out a wide range of operational tasks in a region characterized by vast oceans, seas, and waterways. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Jackson Ricker)

Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 262 conducts hoist training with 1st Special Forces Group-Airborne, U.S. Army, off the coast of Kin Blue Training Area, Okinawa, Japan, Nov. 5, 2019. This training was conducted to increase efficiency while conducting hoist and rescue missions over the open water. The ability to successfully rescue stranded individuals from the water with tiltrotor aircraft provides additional life-saving response options, strengthens readiness and increases joint interoperability between 1st Marine Aircraft Wing and 1st Special Force Group-Airborne. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Ryan Persinger)

Maj. Gen. Thomas D. Weidley, Sgt. Maj. Michael J. Pritchard and CMDCM Curtis Blunt give Marines and Sailors of 1st Marine Aircraft Wing for the upcoming holiday breaks. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Ryan Persinger)

Happy St. Patrick's Day from Marines and Sailors in Okinawa, Japan. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Jessica Etheridge) Video ID: Sgt. Maj. Jeffrey D. Durham, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing. Lance Cpl. Alexia Lythos, 1st MAW COMMSTRAT, from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. HM2 Daniel Melendez, Naval Hospital Okinawa, corpsman, from El Monte, California.

Marines with 1st Marine Aircraft Wing and 3rd Marine Division completed a four-day Tactical Combat Casualty Care course using the Tactical Medical Simulation Center, a III Marine Expeditionary Force asset, on Camp Hansen, Okinawa, Japan, March 8, 2018. The course is designed to hone service-members’ critical thinking, tactical combat care skills and meet the diverse medical requirements needed while operating within the Pacific region. With a motto of “Eliminating preventable deaths on the battlefield,” the center provides the latest evidence-based combat medicine practices to as many Marines and Sailors as possible. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Alexia Lythos)

Cpl. Kodiak McBrayer, a cryogenics equipment operator with Marine Wing Liaison Kadena, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, discovered a fault that would ignite change within the Marine Corps and Navy forever. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Jessica Etheridge)

U.S. Marines and Sailors storm Iwo Jima, 1945. Known as Operation Detachment, the goal of obtaining Iwo Jima was to secure its valuable air space and to allow crippled American aircraft to receive field repairs. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Sgt. Natalie Dillon)