16th Japanese Ground Self Defense Force Regimental Combat Team

U.S. soldiers from the 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division and Japanese soldiers from 16th Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Regimental Combat Team, 4th D More

U.S. Soldiers with the 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, and Japanese soldiers with the 16th Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Regimental Combat Team, 4th Divi More

U.S. Army snipers assigned to 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, observe and train Japanese snipers with the 16th Regimental Combat Team, Japan Ground Self-De More

Members of the 4th Tank Battalion, Japanese Ground Self Defense Force watch illumination rounds slowly fall from the sky ending their day at a tank gunnery range, Sept. 11 at Yakima Training Center, Wash. The t More

Japanese soldiers with the 16th Regimental Combat Team, Japan Ground Self-Defense Force, move to their vehicles to prepare to train with U.S. Soldiers assigned to Bravo Company, 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Reg More

U.S. Soldiers with the 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, take a break to eat lunch and chat with the members of the 4th Tank Battalion, Japanese Ground Self-Defense Forc More

U.S. Soldiers with the 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, and Japanese soldiers with the 16th Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Regimental Combat Team, 4th Divi More

U.S. Soldiers with the 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, and Japanese soldiers with the 16th Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Regimental Combat Team, 4th Divi More

A soldier from 16th Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Regimental Combat Team, 4th Division, holds miniature U.S. and Japanese flags following the opening ceremony for Operation Rising Thunder Sept. 4 at the Yakim More

U.S. Army Pfc. Adam Padilla, right, an infantryman with 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, chats and shares family photos with Japanese Sgt. Tomotsugu Sudu, a tank gunner More

U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Billy Brashears, a platoon sergeant with Bravo Company, 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, looks for targets to call out to his gunne More

U.S. Army 1st Lt. Christopher Goodwin, a fire support officer with Alpha Company, 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, and Japanese 1st Sgt. Teruhiko Tanaka, a forward obse More

Japanese Sgt. 1st Class Ryuji Hira, a sniper with the 16th Regimental Combat Team, Japan Ground Self-Defense Force, covers his ghillie suit with vegetation during a sniper exercise in cooperation with U.S. Army More

A Japanese soldier renders his salute to the flag during an opening ceremony for Operation Rising Thunder at the Yakima Training Center, Wash., Sept. 4, 2013. The exercise aimed to improve and validate the Japa More

U.S. Army Lt. Col. Douglas Walter, the commander of 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, completes his remarks during the opening ceremony for Operation Rising Thunder at the Yakima Training Center, Wash., Se More

Japanese 1st Sgt. Teruhiko Tanaka, a forward observer sergeant, and Sgt. 1st Class Yuji Matsumoto, both with the 16th Infantry Regiment, Heavy Mortar Company, Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force, determine the a More

U.S. Army Pfc. Adam Padilla, right, an infantryman with 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, and Japanese Sgt. Tomotsugu Sudu, a gunner with 4th Tank Battalion, Japanese Gr More

U.S. Army Sgt. Anthony Howard, right, a senior sniper, gives pointers Pvt. Derrick Moster, a sniper, on how to prepare camouflage for a ghillie suit prior to a training exercise during Rising Thunder at the Yak More

U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Stephen Lanza, left, the commander of 7th Infantry Division, greets Japanese Maj. Gen. Takeyoshi Omari, the deputy commander, 4th Division, prior to the opening ceremony for Operation Rising More

A U.S. Army Stryker armored vehicle assigned to Bravo Company, 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, rumbles across a range during a live-fire training exercise More

Soldiers with the 16th Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Regimental Combat Team, 4th Division, stand at attention while the U.S. and Japanese colors are retired during an opening ceremony for Operation Rising Thu More

The 16th Japanese Ground Self Defense Force Regimental Combat Team color guard stands in front of the formation rendering a salute as both national anthems play during an opening ceremony for Operation Rising T More

The color guard with the 16th Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Regimental Combat Team, stand in front of the formation rendering a salute as the national anthems for the U.S. and Japan play during an opening cer More

U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Billy Brashears, a platoon sergeant with Bravo Company, 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, looks across a range while conducting a li More

U.S. Army 1st Lt. Christopher Goodwin, a fire support officer with Alpha Company, 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, and Japanese 1st Sgt. Teruhiko Tanaka, a forward obse More

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Mitchell Shaw, assigned to 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, evaluates snipers with the 16th Regimental Combat Team, Japan Ground Self-D More

A soldier with the 16th Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Regimental Combat Team, 4th Division, holds miniature U.S. and Japanese flags following the opening ceremony for Operation Rising Thunder at the Yakima Tr More

U.S. Army Pfc. Nathanial Hanson, a gunner with Bravo Company, 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, loads and checks his .50-caliber machine gun prior to heading More

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Mitchell Shaw, left, assigned to 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, evaluates Japanese Master Sgt. Kazunori Takao and snipers with the 16 More

U.S. Army Pfc. Adam Padilla, right, an infantryman with 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, chats and shares family photos with Japanese Sgt. Tomotsugu Sudu, a tank gunner More

U.S. Army Sgt. Kenneth Chambers, left, a fire support noncommissioned officer, Alpha Company, 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, marks mortar round impact locations on a More

U.S. Soldiers with the 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, and Japanese soldiers with the 16th Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Regimental Combat Team, 4th Divi More

U.S. soldiers from the 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division and members of the Japanese Ground Self Defense Force from 16th Japanese Ground Self Defense More

A soldier with the 16th Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Regimental Combat Team, 4th Division, raises his hat while sitting on the shoulders of a fellow soldier during a group photo following the opening ceremon More

Japanese soldiers with the 16th Regimental Combat Team, Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force, pull security as U.S. Soldiers with Bravo Company, 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd More

U.S. Army Sgt. Kenneth Chambers, a fire support noncommissioned officer with Alpha Company, 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, marks mortar round impact locations on a ma More

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Mitchell Shaw, left, with 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, delivers a safety brief and training information to Japanese snipers with th More

U.S. Army 1st Lt. Christopher Goodwin, a fire support officer with Alpha Company, 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, and Japanese 1st Sgt. Teruhiko Tanaka, a forward obse More

U.S. Soldiers with the 7th Infantry Division and Japanese soldiers with the 16th Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Regimental Combat Team, 4th Division, stand together for a group photo following the opening cere More

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Mitchell Shaw, left, assigned to 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, evaluates Japanese Master Sgt. Kazunori Takao and snipers with the 16 More

U.S. Army 1st Lt. Christopher Goodwin offers candy to Japanese Sgt. 1st Class Yuji Matsumoto and soldiers the 16th Infantry Regiment, Heavy Mortar Company, Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force, during a pause in More