Videos

U.S. Marines with Marine Air Support Squadron 2, Marine Air Control Group 18, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing fire M240B machine guns in the Central Training Area, Okinawa, Japan, May 13, 2025. MASS-2 conducted live-fire training, improving their proficiency with crew-served weapon systems and enhanced force protection capabilities in an expeditionary advanced base operations environment. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Benjamin Catindig)

U.S. Marines with Marine Air Support Squadron 2, Marine Air Control Group 18, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing fire M240B machine guns in the Central Training Area, Okinawa, Japan, May 13, 2025. MASS-2 conducted live-fire training, improving their proficiency with crew-served weapon systems and enhanced force protection capabilities in an expeditionary advanced base operations environment. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Benjamin Catindig)

U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Alexander Skelton, an air support operations operator with Marine Air Support Squadron 2, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, discusses live-fire training at Range 22, Camp Hansen, Okinawa, Japan, Sept. 7, 2023. MASS 2 conducted this training to refine their weapon proficiency and to maintain weapon handling discipline. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Kyle Chan)

U.S. Marine Corps 1st Lt. Daniel Bober with Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron (HMH) 465, Capt. Jessica Huguelet and Sgt. Dane Robison with Marine Light Helicopter Squadron (HMLA) 267 speak about night-time live fire during an integrated training exercise off the coast of Okinawa, Japan, Jan. 26, 2023. HMLA 267 and HMH 465 conducted integrated training as proof of concept for future distributed operations. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Thalia Rivera)

U.S. Marine Corps UH-1Y Venom and AH-1Z Viper helicopters assigned to Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron (HMLA) 367 conduct live-fire operations off the coast of Hawaii, Nov. 4, 2021. HMLA-367 conducted live-fire training with the use of various weapon systems, to demonstrate readiness and combat proficiency in austere, expeditionary environments within the Indo-Pacific. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Dalton J. Payne)

The Bell UH-1Y Venom "The Huey" is a combat-proven utility helicopter slated to support the U.S. Marine Corps global missions for the next four decades. The Huey engages threats, delivers or exfiltrate personnel and performs under the most punishing operating conditions, making it the ultimate tactical utility helicopter. The UH-1Y Venom was first deployed with the U.S. Marine Corps in 2009. The Huey lineage can be traced back to combat action in Vietnam, but today’s UH-1Y is a thoroughly modern aircraft. The UH-1Y is generations ahead of its predecessors in terms of effectiveness, performance, and safety. The Huey operates in the most extreme environments, from Arctic cold to desert heat. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Andy O. Martinez)

A U.S. Marine Corps AH-1Z Viper helicopter and a UH-1Y Venom helicopter with Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 469 flies over Okinawa, Japan, after conducting live-fire training, June 27, 2018. The squadron conducted live-fire training to maintain unit efficiency and strength. The aircraft are assigned to HMLA-469, Marine Aircraft Group 39, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, under the unit deployment program with MAG-36, 1st MAW. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Alexia Lythos)

A sneak peek and behind the scenes look of "Get to know your UDP" video series. Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 369 is currently on the unit deployment program and will spend six months based out of Okinawa, Japan. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Andy Martinez)

For the first time, more than 2,000 U.S. Marines joined with approximately 1,500 service members with the Japan Self-Defense Force to support the first iteration of Exercise Northern Viper 2017, at Misawa Air Base and the island of Hokkaido, Japan, August 10-28, 2017. Northern Viper, an annual joint contingency exercise, tests the interoperability and bilateral capability of the JSDF and U.S. Marine Corps forces to work together across a variety of areas including peacekeeping operations, humanitarian assistance and disaster relief. This exercise enhances and improves interoperability at the tactical level between the Marines and JSDF to keep the forces formidable and adaptive. NV17 showcases a highly-capable, forward-deployed U.S. military presence positioned with their Japanese partners to directly support the security of the Indo-Asia- Pacific region. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Andy Martinez)