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U.S.-Japan Regional Exercise This Week

December 9, 2009 :: Inside the Ring (Washington Times) :: News

The U.S. and Japan are holding a joint defence exercise this week based out of Hokkaido. Named "Yama Sakura" (Mountain Cherry Blossom), the war-games training exercise will involve maneuvers on land, sea, and air, including defending against missiles, with about 5,000 U.S. and Japanese military personnel participating. Army Lt. Gen. Bejamin R. "Randy" Mixon, head of the U.S. Army in the Pacific, told Bill Gertz of the Washington Times, that the missile defence component made sense given the fact of the clear "missile threat that exists within the region."

 

The U.S. forces involved will be the 3,500 U.S. Army personnel that constitute the I Corps Forward stationed at Camp Zama, 25 miles southwest of Tokyo in Zama and Sagamihara in the Kanagawa Prefecture of the Japanese state of Honshu. The commanding officer at Camp Zama is Maj. Gen. Francis J. Wiercinski. (Article)

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