Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Eric Smith said that plans to move 4,000 Marines from Okinawa to Guam will put those forces far from where they are needed. By Jeff Schogol Published Jan 15, 2025 4:52 ...

About 4,000 Marines are expected to move from Okinawa to Guam, part of a 2012 agreement between the U.S. and Japan to reduce the American military footprint on Okinawa, where nearly 30,000 of the ...

The first contingent of Marines moving from Okinawa to Guam will bunk at Andersen Air Force Base, Naval Base Guam or off-base, not the Corps’ Camp Blaz, a 4,000-acre, multibillion construction ...

U.S. Marines have begun a partial transfer from Okinawa to Camp Blaz, Guam, shown here in 2023, 12 years after Japan and the U.S. agreed on their realignment to reduce U.S. troop presence on Okinawa.

U.S. Army Reserve Soldiers with the 368th military police company fire rounds on Marine Corps Base Camp Blaz, Guam, Sept. 25, 2023. The base was the first newly constructed Marine Corps base in 70 ...

Tokyo and Washington agreed in 2012 to relocate about 9,000 of the 19,000 Marines stationed on Okinawa, including 4,000 to Guam in phases.

Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — U.S. Marines have begun a partial transfer from Okinawa to Guam, 12 years after Japan and the United States agreed on their circle-arrow Play Button ...

By MARI YAMAGUCHI TOKYO (AP) — The partial transfer of U.S. Marines from Okinawa to Guam began on Saturday, 12 years after Japan and the United States agreed on their realignment to reduce the ...

The Marines and Japan Self Defense Forces will conduct joint training in Guam, the statement said. Okinawa, which was under U.S. postwar occupation until 1972, is still home to a majority of the ...