KADENA AIR BASE, Japan -- After five long months, Bravo Battery 1st Battalion, 1st Air Defense Artillery Regiment returned from their deployment to U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM) and reunited with their friends and families on Jan. 22, 2025.
“We’re immensely proud of our Soldiers. They’re deployment to the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility came at an especially fraught period of the region’s history,” said Col. Joseph Scott, commander of the 38th Air Defense Artillery Brigade. “Their outstanding performance and daily operations defended the lives of their fellow service members, demonstrated our Nation’s commitment to its partners in the region and contributed immeasurably to the efforts the U.S. has had to...
SAGAMI GENERAL DEPOT, Japan - Japanese Ground Self Defense Force Soldiers receive a mission brief about the 38th Air Defense Artillery Brigade integrated air and missile defense, command and control structure and the brigade has been working closely with various allies and partners throughout the Indo-Pacific theater at the brigade headquarters on February 12, 2025. The co-op program is a 6-week program during which JGSDF members stay at Camp Zama, where U.S. Army Japan is headquartered, to learn about the unit's mission and take part in an intensive language class. Each member of the group is sponsored by a different unit on Camp Zama, whose Soldiers demonstrate their regular duties. (U.S. Army photo by Capt. Frank Spatt)
SAGAMI GENERAL DEPOT, Japan – In a significant step toward bolstering the longstanding alliance between the United States and Japan, the 38th Air Defense Artillery Brigade (38th ADA) hosted members of the Japanese Ground Self Defense Force (JGSDF) at the brigade headquarters on February 12, 2025. The initiative, part of the U.S. Army Japan Co-Op Exchange Program, provides an invaluable opportunity for JGSDF soldiers to receive an in-depth briefing on integrated air and missile defense mission and command and control structures unique to the 38th ADA brigade.
During the visit, JGSDF Soldiers were provided an in-depth mission briefing on the sophisticated integrated air and missile defense systems of the brigade, which included...
02.12.2025 | SAGAMI GENERAL DEPOT, KANAGAWA, JP |
Story by Capt. Frank Spatt
