U.S. Marines with 3d Intelligence Battalion, III Marine Expeditionary Force Information Group, and 3rd Battalion, 12th Marine Littoral Regiment, 3d Marine Division, employ various radar systems during exercise Keen Sword 25 at Ie Shima, U.S. Marine Corps Training Facility, Okinawa, Japan, Oct. 28, 2024. The radar systems allow Marines to actively scan and track moving vessels in a relatively small-sized platform. Keen Sword is a biennial, joint and bilateral field-training exercise involving U.S. military and Japan Self-Defense Force personnel, designed to increase readiness and interoperability while strengthening the ironclad U.S.-Japan alliance. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Ramon Cardoza)
OKINAWA, JAPAN – U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Turner Sawyer, an intelligence specialist with III Marine Expeditionary Force Information Group, was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal during a ceremony on Camp Hansen, Okinawa, Japan, June 13, 2024. Lt. Gen. Roger B. Turner, the III MEF commanding general, presented the medal to Sawyer personally, recognizing the integral role he played in the continued development of the...
