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OKINAWA, Japan (Oct. 31, 2017) - Sailors assigned to Patrol Squadron (VP) 8 take a group photograph in front of a P-8A Poseidon aircraft at Kadena Air Base, Japan. VP-8 is currently deployed to the U.S.

WATERS OUTSIDE OKINAWA (Oct. 1, 2017) - An amphibious assault vehicle (AAV) assigned to Combat Assault Battalion, AAV Company, enters the well deck of the amphibious dock landing ship USS Ashland (LSD 48) during Blue Chromite. Blue Chromite is an annual exercise held between the U.S. Navy and U.S.

U.S. Marine Cpl. Ivan Gough with Marine Medium Tilt-rotor Squadron (VMM) 265, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, looks out of a window of a CH-53E Super Stallion during a flight off the coast of Okinawa, Japan, November 1, 2017. VMM-265 conducts aerial Operations to further their knowledge and operational readiness in multiple environments.

On November 14, 2010, a taco rice big enough to feed 2,000 people was made in Kin Town, Okinawa, the birthplace of the comfort food. A total of 2,100 people gathered to make this giant taco rice, which was 39 feet in length, 5.9 feet in width, and weighed 1,645 pounds.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2, 2017 — The chief of Naval Operations said today that the collisions in the Pacific that killed 10 sailors aboard the USS Fitzgerald and seven sailors aboard the USS McCain were entirely preventable, and the service is committed to correcting the actions that led to the accidents.

FORT MEADE, Md. -- While on the set of an upcoming TV show revolving around a deadly ambush that he and other 1st Cavalry Division Soldiers endured in Iraq, Eric Bourquin managed to get the emotional healing he had sought for years.