The U.S. Marine Corps commences two concurrent large-scale bilateral workout routines with key allies throughout the primary island chain, from northern Japan via the Philippines, Oct. 1-14.
Greater than 5,500 personnel will take part in Resolute Dragon 22 in Hokkaido, Japan and in KAMANDAG 6 throughout Luzon, Batanes, and Palawan within the Philippines.
The third Marine Division headquarters, primarily based in Okinawa, will train command and management for U.S. forces concerned in each workout routines and supply liaison officers to the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command to rehearse ideas related to functioning as a joint job drive.
“Resolute Dragon and KAMANDAG are vital alternatives to bolster the defensive capabilities of our alliances with Japan and the Philippines via practical mixed coaching,” stated Maj. Gen. Jay Bargeron, third Marine Division Commanding Normal. “These workout routines will permit our forces to strengthen interoperability and readiness to make sure we’re ready to quickly reply to disaster all through the Indo-Pacific.”
“Immediately, because the safety surroundings surrounding Japan turns into extra turbulent, there’s a must additional strengthen the deterrence and response capabilities of the Japan-U.S. Alliance.” Gen. Yuichi Togashi, JGSDF 2nd Division Commanding Normal
Greater than 2,500 members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the U.S. Marine Corps are becoming a member of forces for the annual bilateral train KAMANDAG 6, which takes place Oct. 3-14.
In the meantime, 1,400 Japan Floor Self-Protection Power members from the 2nd Division, Northern Army and 1,600 U.S. Marines from throughout III Marine Expeditionary Power will conduct Resolute Dragon 22, the second annual iteration of the train, Oct. 1-14.
“Immediately, because the safety surroundings surrounding Japan turns into extra turbulent, there’s a must additional strengthen the deterrence and response capabilities of the Japan-U.S. Alliance,” stated Gen. Yuichi Togashi, the JGSDF 2nd Division Commanding Normal. “Because of this, we acknowledge that Resolute Dragon, the most important discipline coaching train with the U.S. Marine Corps in Japan, is extraordinarily vital by way of additional strengthening the cooperation between the Japan Floor Self-Protection Power and the U.S. Marine Corps. It’s my hope that via this coaching, the Japanese and U.S. Forces will deepen mutual understanding, enhance their tactical expertise and joint response capabilities to the operational stage, and, in flip, additional strengthen the Japan-U.S. Alliance.”
Throughout KAMANDAG, 530 Philippine Marines and 1,900 U.S. Marines will prepare carefully collectively, together with about 100 members of the Philippine Navy and Air Power. The drive will concentrate on growing mixed capabilities for amphibious operations, particular operations, maritime safety, coastal protection, mixed arms, and humanitarian help and catastrophe reduction.
“The Philippine Marine Corps appears ahead to this yr’s KAMANDAG train with our overseas army allies who’re superior by way of amphibious operations, particular operations, HADR operations, and territorial protection capabilities,” stated the Philippine Marine Corps Commandant, Maj. Gen. Charlton Sean M. Gaerlan. “By way of this train, we’re capable of be taught from their methods, ways, and procedures to develop our interoperability technique within the Philippine Marine Corps, particularly as we operationalize our Marine Corps Working Idea for Archipelagic Coastal Protection.”
This iteration of KAMANDAG 6 may also characteristic about 30 members of the JGSDF Amphibious Speedy Deployment Brigade and roughly 100 Republic of Korea Marines inside choose occasions of the train.
KAMANDAG 6 will embrace quite a few mixed interoperability occasions to incorporate a mixed arms live-fire train in central Luzon that includes plane and Excessive Mobility Artillery Rocket Methods in addition to amphibious operations alongside the jap and northern coasts.
Photograph by Sgt. Levi Guerra
U.S. Marine Corps 1st Lt. Dayan Oduma, a communications officer with third Marine Division, helps palletize gear in preparation to depart Okinawa, Japan throughout an Alert Contingency Marine Air-Floor Job Power drill, initiating the deployment of the division’s Ahead Command Component taking part in KAMANDAG 6 within the Philippines, Sept. 27, 2022. KAMANDAG is an annual bilateral train between the Armed Forces of the Philippines and U.S. army designed to strengthen interoperability, capabilities, belief, and cooperation constructed over a long time of shared experiences. Oduma is a local of Compton, California.
Resolute Dragon 22 may also embrace a mixed arms live-fire occasion that includes the JGSDF A number of Launch Rocket System and U.S. Marine Corps HIMARS amongst different weapons methods. Resolute Dragon focuses on enhancing bilateral command and management, multi-domain maneuver, and fires and results in a geographically distributed surroundings.
KAMANDAG 6 and Resolute Dragon 22 are vital parts to sustaining the readiness and defensive capabilities of the U.S.-Philippines alliance and the U.S.-Japan alliance.
“KAMANDAG” stands for “Kaagapay Ng Mga Mandirigma Ng Dagat” which is Tagalog for “Cooperation of the Warriors of the Sea.” The aim of this train is to strengthen cooperation, interoperability, and relationships amongst taking part forces.
Workout routines like KAMANDAG and Resolute Dragon strengthen worldwide partnerships, mutual safety, and the flexibility to quickly reply to crises all through the Indo-Pacific.
The U.S. Marine Corps’ participation in KAMANDAG 6 and Resolute Dragon 22 will probably be led by the third Marine Division, headquartered on Okinawa, Japan, offering general command and management for U.S. forces in each workout routines.
U.S. Marine Corps items taking part in KAMANDAG 6 within the Philippines embrace the third Marine Division; thirty first Marine Expeditionary Unit; components of the eleventh Marine Expeditionary Unit; components of 4th Marine Regiment; Fight Logistics Regiment 3; and 1st Battalion, second Marines. Moreover, Job Power 76/3 will conduct operations for the primary time as an built-in workers through the train. TF 76/3 was not too long ago shaped because of merging the staffs of U.S. Navy’s Job Power 76, Seventh Fleet, and 3d Marine Expeditionary Brigade, III Marine Expeditionary Power. U.S. Marine Corps plane concerned in KAMANDAG 6 will probably be primarily sourced from the thirty first MEU and embrace the F-35B Lightning II, MV-22B Osprey, CH-53E Tremendous Stallion, AH-1Z Viper, UH-1Y Venom, and KC-130J Tremendous Hercules.
U.S. Marine Corps items taking part in Resolute Dragon 22 in Hokkaido embrace the twelfth Marine Regiment; third Battalion, twelfth Marines; third Battalion, third Marines; third Reconnaissance Battalion, and third Transportation Battalion; and a number of squadrons from 1st Marine Plane Wing bringing MV-22B Ospreys, CH-53E Tremendous Stallions, AH-1Z Vipers, UH-1Y Venoms, KC-130J Tremendous Hercules, and F/A-18 Hornets.
