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Sept. 21, 2025
Freedom Edge 25

U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy assets support the third iteration of Freedom Edge at Kadena Air Base, Japan, Sep. 16, 2025. Japan, the Republic of Korea, and the United States executed the exercise, demonstrating a new era of trilateral cooperation to ensure peace and stability in the Korean Peninsula
Sept. 17, 2025
909th powers U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps during large force exercise

A KC-135 Stratotanker from the 909th Air Refueling Squadron conducts aerial refueling operations with U.S. Marine Corps F-35B Lightning IIs from Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 214, Marine Aircraft Group 12, and U.S. Navy EA-18G Growlers assigned to Electronic Attack Squadron 131, over the Pacific
Aug. 19, 2025
Forging the Fight Together: Synchronizing Joint Operations in Bamboo Eagle 25-3

Bamboo Eagle 25-3 pushed the boundaries of 21st-century mission command, leveraging the Distributed Mission Operations Center, or DMOC, to forge agile, resilient leaders. In a synthetic battlespace, the joint force rehearsed decentralized execution and empowered decision-making to achieve decision
June 9, 2023
Dirt Cheap Rapid Repairs

A U.S. Marine assigned to the Marine Wing Support Squadron 172 opens a sack of cement during a joint rapid airfield damage repair exercise at Kadena Air Base, Japan, June 8, 2023. The concrete was used to fill in artificially made holes for the RADR training.

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