CAMP FUJI, Japan — Marines and sailors say life at this isolated Marine Corps base about 60 miles from Tokyo has improved vastly with the availability of Internet service to their rooms.
A Marine looks out at Mount Fuji, where a birder recently found an unexploded WWII artillery shell. (Pfc. Karis Mattingly/Marine Corps) A Japanese green pheasant, a grey heron, a common kingfisher, a ...
COMBINED ARMS TRAINING CENTER CAMP FUJI, Japan — Marines recently put their island-fighting doctrine to the test by coordinating live fire from M777 A2 howitzers with distant orders from Okinawa. Two ...
HANSON -- Four decades later, the memory of the wind and rain and deadly fire is as vivid as ever for Marine Corps veteran Joe Macdonald of Hanson. On Oct. 19, 1979, Macdonald was 21 and stationed at ...
The United States conducted a live-fire training exercise for its combat-proven High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, or HIMARS, at a range near Japan’s Mount Fuji. The exercise, conducted on Monday, ...
Camp Fuji, Japan- The grey cinder block room was cold and void of all things except two metal chairs. In one sat an insurgent IED maker, in the other an Army interrogator. Slowly the interrogator ...
CAMP ZAMA, Japan (Aug. 30, 2019) -- Because this is the last year Michael and Keisha Fuentez will be stationed in Japan, they were in a "now or never" situation this summer when it came to their dream ...
U.S. Marines with 3rd Battalion, 12th Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division fire a Reduced-Range Practice Rocket from a M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System during a live fire training at the ...