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US Army Garrison Okinawa is a US Army facility located in Yomitan, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan.Home to the United States Army on Okinawa, 10th Support Group (Regional), along with the 1st Battalion, 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne), 247th MP DET, and the 349th Signal Company (78th SIG BN) provide support to all other U.S. military services on the island.
While the overall number of overseas military bases has fallen since 1945, the United States, Turkey, the United Kingdom, Russia and France still possess or utilize a substantial number of them. Smaller numbers of overseas military bases are operated by China, Iran, India, Italy, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Singapore and the United Arab Emirates.
The 10th Support Group was constituted in the Regular Army on October 15, 1987, at Torii Station, Okinawa, Japan, to provide administrative, base and contingency support. On March 11, 2011, a devastating magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck eastern Japan followed by a devastating tsunami. It was the largest earthquake in Japan's history.
Fort Buckner is a United States Army base located immediately south of Camp Foster, near Futenma, on Okinawa, Japan.The 78th Signal Battalion and E Co. of the 53d Signal Battalion (SATCON) are the only units on this small installation.
In May 1984, the U.S. Army Communication Command was re-designated and Okinawa’s battalion fell under the newly named U.S. Army Information Systems Command (USAISC), and its mission has remained the same, to be the "Voice of the Army" and the voice of United States government agencies on Okinawa. Meanwhile, the Headquarters Army staff also ...
Camp Courtney houses many military families, has a movie theater, exchange, commissary, medical and dental clinics, post office, chapel and bank. [3] Many Marines living on Camp McTureous are stationed on Camp Courtney. The Michael Brown Okinawa assault incident occurred just outside the base on 2 November 2002.
It is home to approximately 3,000 [3] Marines of the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing and other units, and has been a U.S. military airbase since the defeat of the Japanese Imperial Army in the Battle of Okinawa in 1945. Marine Corps pilots and aircrew are assigned to the base for training and providing air support to other land and sea-based Marines ...
Onaga and a majority of Okinawa residents want the base moved off the island.", commented USA Today. [73] On 14 December 2018, landfill on a controversial new U.S. military runway that will one day facilitate the relocation and closure of Marine Corps Air Station Futenma began in Okinawa following years of protests and legal challenges. [74]