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United States Marines and Japan Ground Self-Defense Force soldiers stand together in formation for the opening ceremony of exercise Iron Fist 2016 on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., Jan. 22, 2016. Iron Fist is and annual, bilateral amphibious training exercise held in Southern California between the United States Marine Corps and the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force. The Marines taking part in the exercise are from I Marine Expeditionary Force on Camp Pendleton. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Timothy Valero/ Released) - United States Marines and Japan Ground Self-Defense Force soldiers stand together in formation for the opening ceremony of exercise Iron Fist 2016 on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., Jan. 22, 2016. Iron Fist is and annual, bilateral amphibious training exercise held in Southern California between the United States Marine Corps and the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force. The Marines taking part in the exercise are from I Marine Expeditionary Force on Camp Pendleton. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Timothy Valero/ Released)

Exercise Iron Fist 2016

For more than 55 years, the United States and Japan have been security treaty allies. For years, the U.S. Marine Corps and Japan Ground Self-Defense Force have been training together across the Pacific in support of the security treaty for the defense of Japan.Exercise Iron Fist 2016 is one such opportunity, allowing Japanese soldiers to train with

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Corporal Ishida of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force’s Western Army Infantry Regiment scans the simulated battlefield for targets as U.S. Marine Staff Sgt. Michael Casey, battalion master gunner, 3rd Assault Amphibian Battalion and simulator operator, and JGSDF Master Sgt. Fukase monitor the amphibious assault crew’s performance during Exercise Iron Fist 2016 at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., Jan. 26. This annual, bilateral exercise offers the opportunity for the U.S. Marines and JGSDF soldiers to work hand-in-hand as they train and prepare for an amphibious assault being conducted on the shores of Camp Pendleton in late February. - Corporal Ishida of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force’s Western Army Infantry Regiment scans the simulated battlefield for targets as U.S. Marine Staff Sgt. Michael Casey, battalion master gunner, 3rd Assault Amphibian Battalion and simulator operator, and JGSDF Master Sgt. Fukase monitor the amphibious assault crew’s performance during Exercise Iron Fist 2016 at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., Jan. 26. This annual, bilateral exercise offers the opportunity for the U.S. Marines and JGSDF soldiers to work hand-in-hand as they train and prepare for an amphibious assault being conducted on the shores of Camp Pendleton in late February.

Iron Fist 2016: Marines train with Amphibious Assault Vehicle Gunner Simulator

As the cross-hairs of the scope landed on target, Cpl. Ishida, from the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force’s Western Army Infantry Regiment, squeezed the trigger of the .50-caliber machine gun. The tremor from each round firing traveled up his arms and into his body as he kept the machine gun on his target. Smoke from the machine gun floated past and

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