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exercise . Iron fist is a bilateral 

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training exercise that involves the 

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Japanese ground self defense force and 

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the United States Marine Corps . It 

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focuses on bilateral training to 

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increase amphibious capability between 

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the United States and the Japanese . 

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Yeah , 

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okay , so it's also good at this . What 

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about potato or big head ? I 

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know 

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it's the most . 

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It's not a cigar , a tornado 

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you give me the more animals on the US 

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side . Units from across the first 

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Marine expeditionary force are involved 

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in this exercise . Amphibious assault 

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battalion has conducted waterborne and 

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ashore operations with their amphibious 

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combat vehicles and the Japanese 

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amphibious assault . The marines were 

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first platoon participated in crude 

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gunnery for the bilateral amphibious 

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assaults . My marines had to work 

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alongside the Japanese with their 

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tactics techniques and procedures to 

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conduct an assault online on time 

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hitting center beach . 

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Second Battalion , 4th Marines and 

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Infantry Battalion is the primary 

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participant . When it comes to 

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integration with the Japanese soldiers 

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objective is to work concurrently with 

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the CJGSdf . Given that there is a 

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large language barrier as well as a 

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difference in tactics used , there was 

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a big showcase of whether we were able 

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to work effectively and efficiently 

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with foreign fighting claws . The 

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air and naval gunfire liaison company 

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led the fire support control exercise 

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Out in 29 palms during the exercise . 

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The greatest benefit of doing this 

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exercise is the realization that we 

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have equal partners in the pacific 

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through our combined strength , We are 

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capable of both defending and aiding 

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when required Combat Logistics 

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Battalion 13 provides the logistical 

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support across the force . 

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Working with the JD STF has been 

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difficult but it's also been really 

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exhilarating just because we're getting 

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to share medicine and medicine is kind 

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of its own language to the point where 

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there is a huge language barrier there , 

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but when it comes to medicine , it's 

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kind of universal . Like we just knew 

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what to do . We knew our bedrolls , I 

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would hand them things and they would 

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just know what to do with what I was 

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handing them or what we were trying to 

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accomplish . If I started doing 

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something , they would take over right 

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away because they just knew how to work 

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the key objective for exercise . Iron 

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fist is interoperability between the U . 

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S . Marines and the japanese ground 

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self defense force . And specifically 

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when it comes to amphibious operations , 

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whether it's live fire moving from ship 

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to shore , our ability to plan together 

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our ability to move together , our 

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ability to adjust the fact that we're 

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working together and becoming better 

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together is the key element of exercise . 

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Iron fist . 

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Mhm