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American Marine Corps and Japanese Ground SDF conducted aerial integration training using the Marines’ MV-22B Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft and Japanese CH-47 Chinook helicopters in the Soumagahara training area.

President Donald J. Trump today promised to rebuild the U.S. military and called for a 12-carrier Navy during a visit to the future USS Gerald R. Ford in Newport News, Virginia, the first of its class and the first new carrier design since the Nimitz-class began.

The senior officers of the Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard discussed topics including “great power” competition, people and equipment and media relations yesterday at the West 2017 Naval Conference in San Diego.

A spectrum of state and nonstate actors across multiple regions and domains calls for a new way of harnessing the maritime domain, the commander of U.S. Southern Command said at the Surface Navy Association’s 29th National Symposium here today.

Operational deployments will boost U.S. presence in the western Pacific and in Europe. 7,500 sailors will deploy and focus on maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts and bilateral exercises.

The United States has the world’s mightiest military, but it faces potent challenges. “We’re organized to combat geographically isolated problems… But our future conflicts will cross those regional boundaries. They’ll be transregional in nature.”

In a discussion on maritime security at the CSIS, Navy Adm. Kurt W. Tidd mentioned networked threats in Latin America, beyond stopping drug trafficking, smuggling of weapons and other illicit goods, and human trafficking.

Forward-deployed to support security and stability in the vast Indo-Asia-Pacific region, the U.S. 7th Fleet is involved in a wide array of activities in this critically important part of the world.

The liberation of the northern Syrian city of Jarabulus is another important milestone in efforts to defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. Syrian opposition forces supported by coalition air power and the Turkish military are now in control.