A Air Force Airman with 320th Special Tactics Squadron directs Marine Corps CH-53E Super Stallions with 1st Marine Aircraft Wing to extract Marines with 3d Battalion, 12th Marines, 3d Marine Division, during Castaway on Ie Shima, Okinawa, Japan, March 16, 2021. The exercise demonstrated the Marine Corps’ ability to integrate with the joint force to seize and defend key maritime terrain, provide low-signature sustainment, and execute long-range precision fires in support of naval operations from an expeditionary advanced base.

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