Lieutenant General Ricky Rupp, right, commander, United States Forces Japan and Fifth Air Force, speaks with Lt. Col. Alexander Kelly, left, commanding officer of the 319th Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron, and Maj. Christian Lundin, pilot, in front of MQ-9 Reaper unmanned drones at Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Kanoya Air Base, Japan, Jan. 12, 2023. Rupp visited the 319th ERS to meet with and thank the airmen for their work maintaining and operating the squadron's MQ-9 Reaper unmanned drones and recognize a few individuals for their work in building relationships with the JMSDF base
Lieutenant General Ricky Rupp, right, commander, United States Forces Japan and Fifth Air Force, speaks with Lt. Col. Alexander Kelly, left, commanding officer of the 319th Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron, and Maj. Christian Lundin, pilot, in front of MQ-9 Reaper unmanned drones at Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Kanoya Air Base, Japan, Jan. 12, 2023. Rupp visited the 319th ERS to meet with and thank the airmen for their work maintaining and operating the squadron's MQ-9 Reaper unmanned drones and recognize a few individuals for their work in building relationships with the JMSDF base personnel and the locals outside the installation. The 319th ERS MQ-9s support Japan– intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance priorities throughout the Indo-Pacific, sending information they capture to the Bilateral Intelligence Analysis Cell on Yokota Air Base for review and processing by a combined team.
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