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An aerial view of damage to Wakuya, Japan, after a

An aerial view of damage to Wakuya, Japan, after a

An aerial view of damage to Wakuya, Japan, after a 9.0 magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami devastated the area in northern Japan. Ships and aircraft from the Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group are condu... More

III MEF Marines prepare to provide assistance following tsunami in Japan

III MEF Marines prepare to provide assistance following tsunami in Jap...

Marines with 7th Communications Battalion, III Marine Expeditionary Force Headquarters Group, III MEF (Forward) load a KC-130J Super Hercules cargo aircraft here March 14, during humanitarian assistance operati... More

USS Ronald Reagan, US Navy Photogrpah

USS Ronald Reagan, US Navy Photogrpah

A C-2A Greyhound assigned to the Providers of Fleet Logistics Combat Support Squadron (VRC) 30 launches from the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76). C-2A Greyhounds are being used to transport food, wa... More

Col. Andrew MacMannis, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit

Col. Andrew MacMannis, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit

Col. Andrew MacMannis, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit commanding officer and Capt. Bradley Lee, commander, Amphibious Squadron 11, board a CH-46E Sea Knight helicopter aboard the flight deck of the forward-depl... More

Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force  service members

Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force service members

Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force service members from Fleet Air Wing II load donated items onboard an MH-53E helicopter at JMSDF Hachinohe Air Base. JMSDF Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron 111 transpor... More

Senior Airman Megan Dean

Senior Airman Megan Dean

Senior Airman Megan Dean, 374th Airlift Wing command post, stands in front of the wing headquarters building on night shift at Yokota Air Base, Japan, March 29. In support of Operation Tomodachi, Dean monitors ... More

Col. Chris Coke, chief of staff for 3rd Marine Expeditionary

Col. Chris Coke, chief of staff for 3rd Marine Expeditionary

Col. Chris Coke, chief of staff for 3rd Marine Expeditionary Brigade, Joint Support Forces Japan, opens the bilateral symposium on mental health here March 31 by discussing the importance of interoperability an... More

U.S. Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Kenneth J. Glueck, III Marine

U.S. Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Kenneth J. Glueck, III Marine

U.S. Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Kenneth J. Glueck, III Marine Expeditionary Force commanding general and Task Force 505, shakes the hand of Japan Ground Self Defense Force Lt. Gen. Eiji Kimizuka, commanding general ... More

Lance Cpl. Jared M. Sackett, a Poyner, Texas native,

Lance Cpl. Jared M. Sackett, a Poyner, Texas native,

Lance Cpl. Jared M. Sackett, a Poyner, Texas native, was recently awarded a Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal. Sackett earned the medal while performing his duties as a night watch clerk in the Joint Oper... More

Brendan (left) and Tyler Dallies, from East Liverpool,

Brendan (left) and Tyler Dallies, from East Liverpool,

Brendan (left) and Tyler Dallies, from East Liverpool, Ohio, sort through toys donated to Japan by listeners of the "Ron and Don" radio show. The program organized and shipped more than 96,000 pounds of donated... More

Maj. Gen. Peter J. Talleri says goodbye to children

Maj. Gen. Peter J. Talleri says goodbye to children

Maj. Gen. Peter J. Talleri says goodbye to children as he exits Oshima Elementary during a visit Jan. 12. During the visit, nearly 30 members of the III Marine Expeditionary Force and Marine Corps Installations... More

Members of a 621st Contingency Response Wing airfield

Members of a 621st Contingency Response Wing airfield

Members of a 621st Contingency Response Wing airfield assessment team load mobility bags at the Global Reach Deployment Center at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., before leaving for Japan on March 22. CR... More

Sailors with Amphibious Squadron 11 direct Japanese

Sailors with Amphibious Squadron 11 direct Japanese

Sailors with Amphibious Squadron 11 direct Japanese utility repair vehicles into a U.S. Navy landing craft at the dock in Kesennuma, March 27. The 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit and PHIBRON-11 transported the v... More

Marines with Battalion Landing Team, 2d Battalion,

Marines with Battalion Landing Team, 2d Battalion,

Marines with Battalion Landing Team, 2d Battalion, 5th Marines, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, remove debris from among severely damaged homes here during Operation Field Day, a clearing and cleanup project de... More

Residents of Oshima Island make a streamer of ribbons

Residents of Oshima Island make a streamer of ribbons

Residents of Oshima Island make a streamer of ribbons for Marines and Sailors of the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, as a way of thanking them for cleaning up debris, April 6. The Marines and Sailors spent abou... More

Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael Jensen, an aviation

Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael Jensen, an aviation

Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael Jensen, an aviation structural mechanic attached to Aircraft Intermediate Maintenance Detachment Misawa and a native of Payette, Idaho, performs a spot weld on an engine part for... More

Semper Fi Society members clap as children sing a song

Semper Fi Society members clap as children sing a song

Semper Fi Society members clap as children sing a song at Kaminakajima preschool in Kamaishi-shi, Japan, Oct. 25, 2013. This is the second time the Semper Fi Society has gone to Kamaishi to deliver toys since ... More

Marines with Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 265,

Marines with Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 265,

Marines with Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 265, Marine Aircraft Group 36, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, III Marine Expeditionary Force, observe as a CH-46E Sea Knight helicopter here prepares for take-off to tr... More

A CH-46E Sea Knight helicopter takes off from the flight

A CH-46E Sea Knight helicopter takes off from the flight

A CH-46E Sea Knight helicopter takes off from the flight deck of the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex. Essex, the amphibious dock landing ships USS Harpers Ferry and USS Germantown, with the e... More

Airmen 1st Class Dakota Parker of Brownsboro, Texas,

Airmen 1st Class Dakota Parker of Brownsboro, Texas,

Airmen 1st Class Dakota Parker of Brownsboro, Texas, assigned to Misawa Air Base, Bioenvironmental Engineering Department, applies an applicator to a water sample during a water contamination test. The departme... More

Navy Adm. Robert F. Willard, commander of U.S. Pacific

Navy Adm. Robert F. Willard, commander of U.S. Pacific

Navy Adm. Robert F. Willard, commander of U.S. Pacific Command, gives a toy to a child while touring a shelter facility in Ishinomaki city, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, March 23. Willard and John V. Roos, U.S. amb... More

Sgt. Johnathan Prokopchak sweeps the floors during

Sgt. Johnathan Prokopchak sweeps the floors during

Sgt. Johnathan Prokopchak sweeps the floors during the cleanup of Ishinomaki Technical High School, March 30, in Sendai Japan. Service members in conjunction with the Japanese Ground Defense Force cleaned the s... More

Japan Defense Minister, Toshimi Kitazawa, (center)

Japan Defense Minister, Toshimi Kitazawa, (center)

Japan Defense Minister, Toshimi Kitazawa, (center) speaks with Lt.j.g. Jaden Risnar (left), assigned to the Black Knights of Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron (HS) 4, in the Black Knight’s ready room aboard th... More

Gunnery Sgt. Josh Wallace, a CH-46E Sea Knight helicopter

Gunnery Sgt. Josh Wallace, a CH-46E Sea Knight helicopter

Gunnery Sgt. Josh Wallace, a CH-46E Sea Knight helicopter crew chief with Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 265, Marine Aircraft Group 36, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, III Marine Expeditionary Force, provides fron... More

Through all the commotion going on in the Enlisted

Through all the commotion going on in the Enlisted

Through all the commotion going on in the Enlisted club ballroom due to the voluntary evacuation of Misawa Air Base family members, young seven-month old Regal Flores decides to take a nap in the safe arms of h... More

A Misawa Air Base civilian employes recovers usable

A Misawa Air Base civilian employes recovers usable

A Misawa Air Base civilian employes recovers usable pots from the debris left in the wake of Japan's massive tsunami, while Misawa-based chief petty officers and first class petty officers assist with recovery ... More

A local resident gazes at his home that was turned

A local resident gazes at his home that was turned

A local resident gazes at his home that was turned onto its side by a tsunami, triggered by a 9.0 magnitude earthquake 230 miles of the coast of Tokyo March 11.

Marines from III Marine Expeditionary Force prepare

Marines from III Marine Expeditionary Force prepare

Marines from III Marine Expeditionary Force prepare to board a KC-130J Super Hercules cargo aircraft en route to mainland Japan in support of Operation Tomodachi, March 18. III MEF Marines and sailors are suppo... More

Prime Minister Naoto Kan visited the Joint Task Force

Prime Minister Naoto Kan visited the Joint Task Force

Prime Minister Naoto Kan visited the Joint Task Force - Tohoku at Camp Sendai, Japan. Present, as well, are Adm. Patrick Walsh, commander of the Joint Support Forces - Japan; Lt. Gen. Burton Field, commanding f... More

A joint-service American survey team flies over the

A joint-service American survey team flies over the

A joint-service American survey team flies over the wreckage at Sendai Airport, March 13, two days after the massive earthquake and tsunami ravaged the eastern coast of Japan's main island of Honshu.

III MEF Marines prepare to provide assistance following tsunami in Japan

III MEF Marines prepare to provide assistance following tsunami in Jap...

III Marine Expeditionary Force Marines and sailors disembark from a KC-130J Hercules aircraft here March 12, 2011, during a humanitarian assistance/disaster relief mission in response to the 8.9 magnitude earth... More

Operation Tomodachi, US Navy Photogrpah

Operation Tomodachi, US Navy Photogrpah

A CH-46E Sea Knight helicopter assigned to the Flying Tigers of Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron (HMM) 262, Marine Aircraft Group 36, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, lifts off the flight deck of the aircraft carrier... More

Two homes remain standing amongst what used to be a

Two homes remain standing amongst what used to be a

Two homes remain standing amongst what used to be a small neighborhood, but is now cluttered with debris after a tsunami ripped through the northern coastal areas of Japan March 11. The tsunami was triggered by... More

Oldham County native, III MEF Marine continues service

Oldham County native, III MEF Marine continues service

On Sept. 2, Craig Q. Timberlake, a graduate of Oldham County High School class of 1977, was promoted to the rank of brigadier general in the United States Marine Corps. This past February, Timberlake was select... More

Marines board a CH-46E Sea Knight helicopter aboard

Marines board a CH-46E Sea Knight helicopter aboard

Marines board a CH-46E Sea Knight helicopter aboard the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex. Essex, the amphibious dock landing ships USS Harpers Ferry and USS Germantown, with the embarked 31st ... More

Petty Officer 2nd Class Jack Veselik, machinist's mate,

Petty Officer 2nd Class Jack Veselik, machinist's mate,

Petty Officer 2nd Class Jack Veselik, machinist's mate, right, uses an IM-271/PD Radiacmeter to detect possible surface contaminates on Lt. j.g. Jason Harrel, assigned to the Black Knights of Strike Fighter Squ... More

Reserve Deputy Commander and Chief of Staff for U.S.

Reserve Deputy Commander and Chief of Staff for U.S.

Reserve Deputy Commander and Chief of Staff for U.S. Pacific Fleet, Rear Adm. Russell S. Penniman addressed Navy Reserve sailors at Naval Operational Support Center Pearl Harbor thanking them for their service ... More

An aerial view of damage to Wakuya, Japan, after a

An aerial view of damage to Wakuya, Japan, after a

An aerial view of damage to Wakuya, Japan, after a 9.0 magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami devastated the area in northern Japan. Ships and aircraft from the Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group are condu... More

Marines and sailors from III Marine Expeditionary Force,

Marines and sailors from III Marine Expeditionary Force,

Marines and sailors from III Marine Expeditionary Force, load equipment into a KC-130J Super Hercules cargo aircraft at the newly repaired airport here March 24. III MEF Marines and sailors are en route to Yoko... More

Capt. Masanori Ide, Japanese Ground Self Defense Force

Capt. Masanori Ide, Japanese Ground Self Defense Force

Capt. Masanori Ide, Japanese Ground Self Defense Force liaison officer to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (left), discusses the extensive damage to the port here, Mar. 27, 2011.

Sailors and Marines load food and emergency relief

Sailors and Marines load food and emergency relief

Sailors and Marines load food and emergency relief supplies onto An SH-60F Seahawk belonging to the Black Knights of Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron 4. Ronald Reagan is operating off the coastline of Japan t... More

Local fisherman and Marines with Battalion Landing

Local fisherman and Marines with Battalion Landing

Local fisherman and Marines with Battalion Landing Team, 2d Battalion, 5th Marines, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, remove debris from among severely damaged homes here during Operation Field Day, a clearing an... More

A Marine with Company G, Battalion Landing Team 2nd

A Marine with Company G, Battalion Landing Team 2nd

A Marine with Company G, Battalion Landing Team 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, cuts up a tree on top of a pile of rubble, April 4. As part of Operation Tomodachi, the 31st MEU is re... More

Lance Cpl. Jamaal Smith, a Bakersfield, Calif. native

Lance Cpl. Jamaal Smith, a Bakersfield, Calif. native

Lance Cpl. Jamaal Smith, a Bakersfield, Calif. native and freight clerk for Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron, Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, directs a KC-130J Super Hercules cargo aircraft to the runwa... More

Sailors aboard the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force

Sailors aboard the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force

Sailors aboard the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force helicopter destroyer JDS Hyuga (DDH 181) wave the American and Japanese flags as a sign of friendship during a pass and review with the aircraft carrier U... More

U.S. Navy Lt. Boyce Gire, a medical planner with the

U.S. Navy Lt. Boyce Gire, a medical planner with the

U.S. Navy Lt. Boyce Gire, a medical planner with the humanitarian assistance survey team, III Marine Expeditionary Force (Fwd) hands candy to Japanese children during a survey of the Tagajo City Cultural Center... More

Chief Naval Air Crewman (Romeo) Brad Carlton from Hickman,

Chief Naval Air Crewman (Romeo) Brad Carlton from Hickman,

Chief Naval Air Crewman (Romeo) Brad Carlton from Hickman, Ky., surveys the Japanese tsunami-ravaged landscape, from an SH-60F helicopter, while looking for a place to land and deliver humanitarian supplies. He... More

A KC-130J Super Hercules cargo aircraft taxis on the

A KC-130J Super Hercules cargo aircraft taxis on the

A KC-130J Super Hercules cargo aircraft taxis on the runway here March 18 en route to mainland Japan. III MEF Marines and sailors are supporting Government of Japan-led humanitarian assistance/disaster relief o... More

U.S. Air Force aerial porters from Misawa Air Base,

U.S. Air Force aerial porters from Misawa Air Base,

U.S. Air Force aerial porters from Misawa Air Base, Japan, off load pallets of earthquake relief supplies from a C-17 III Globemaster on March 13, 2011, during Operation Tomodachi.

An orphaned shoe lies in the open trunk of a car displaced

An orphaned shoe lies in the open trunk of a car displaced

An orphaned shoe lies in the open trunk of a car displaced by the March 11 tsunami. The massive tsunami created by the 9.0 earthquake earlier that day spared little and made no differentiations on who or what it claimed.

U.S. soldiers and Marines camp out in the passenger

U.S. soldiers and Marines camp out in the passenger

U.S. soldiers and Marines camp out in the passenger terminal at Sendai Airport, March 28. The terminal provided protection from the elements at Sendai where the temperature often dropped below freezing, and the... More

A Japanese Flag waves proudly outside the main passenger

A Japanese Flag waves proudly outside the main passenger

A Japanese Flag waves proudly outside the main passenger terminal at Sendai, exemplifying the hardy Japanese spirit shown in the Sendai Airport recovery effort. Once thought lost, the airport is now progressing... More

A command post is set up by the Japanese Search and

A command post is set up by the Japanese Search and

A command post is set up by the Japanese Search and Rescue team and its job is to coordinate all the teams searching through the debris by grid on March 17, 2011, in Unosumai, Japan. A 9.0 earthquake hit Japan... More

A Sailor signals the Marine pilots of a CH-53E Super

A Sailor signals the Marine pilots of a CH-53E Super

A Sailor signals the Marine pilots of a CH-53E Super Stallion with Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 262 (Reinforced), 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, as it takes off during flight operations March 17. The 31st... More

Operation Tomodachi continues III MEF, MCBJ supporting relief efforts

Operation Tomodachi continues III MEF, MCBJ supporting relief efforts

Japan Ground Self-Defense Force service members and III Marine Expeditionary Force Marines team up to offload about 25,000 bottles of water from a the back of a CH-46E Sea Knight helicopter during Operation Tom... More

Citizens leave notes and messages for missing family

Citizens leave notes and messages for missing family

Citizens leave notes and messages for missing family member on a bulletin board at Shiogama City Gymnasium here March 21. Service members with U.S. Forces Japan (Fwd) and Japanese Ground Self-Defense Forces sur... More

Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael Keehne, legalman, from

Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael Keehne, legalman, from

Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael Keehne, legalman, from Charlevoix, Mich., and Petty Officer 2nd Class Jeneice Martinez, legalman, from Glenn Heights, Texas, review legal papers in the legal office aboard the ai... More

Petty Officer 2nd Class Heather Fishel, aviation machinist's

Petty Officer 2nd Class Heather Fishel, aviation machinist's

Petty Officer 2nd Class Heather Fishel, aviation machinist's mate, left, from Fort Wayne, Ind., Petty Officer 2nd Class Carlos Edwards, aviation machinist's matefrom Brooklyn, N.Y., Airman Seana Sprayberry, boa... More

An RQ-4 Global Hawk from Andersen Air Force Base, Guam

An RQ-4 Global Hawk from Andersen Air Force Base, Guam

An RQ-4 Global Hawk from Andersen Air Force Base, Guam is towed down the taxiway at Misawa Air Base, Japan, May 24, 2014. The RQ-4 Global Hawk is a high-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aircraft system with an... More

Marines with Marine Aircraft Group 36, 1st Marine Aircraft

Marines with Marine Aircraft Group 36, 1st Marine Aircraft

Marines with Marine Aircraft Group 36, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, III Marine Expeditionary Force, wait in the passenger terminal here before departing to Naval Air Facility Atsugi in mainland Japan in support of... More

A crew member of the Military Sealift Command dry cargo

A crew member of the Military Sealift Command dry cargo

A crew member of the Military Sealift Command dry cargo and ammunition ship USNS Matthew Perry attaches cargo to a CH-46E Sea Knight helicopter assigned to the Flying Tigers of Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron... More

Tanesha Wilcox, animal caretaker lead, takes control

Tanesha Wilcox, animal caretaker lead, takes control

Tanesha Wilcox, animal caretaker lead, takes control of a dog after volunteer Kinoshita Toshiya returns it from a walk. The kennel, along with volunteers, is prepared to help service members take care of their ... More

Sailors with USS Essex (LHD 2) Amphibious Ready Group,

Sailors with USS Essex (LHD 2) Amphibious Ready Group,

Sailors with USS Essex (LHD 2) Amphibious Ready Group, remove wheel chalks from a CH-46E Sea Knight helicopter before it takes off, April 2. The helicopter, with Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 262 (Reinforce... More

Staff Sgt. Kenneth D. Hacker, an instructor with the

Staff Sgt. Kenneth D. Hacker, an instructor with the

Staff Sgt. Kenneth D. Hacker, an instructor with the Staff Non-Commissioned Officer Academy, shakes hands with a high school student from Tōhoku, Japan during a float judging for the Rose Parade 2015 in Pasaden... More

U.S. aid workers from the Los Angeles County Fire Department

U.S. aid workers from the Los Angeles County Fire Department

U.S. aid workers from the Los Angeles County Fire Department receive a briefing after arriving at Misawa Air Base, Japan, March 13, 2011. The team arrived in support of Operation Tomodachi after an 8.9 magnitud... More

Petty Officer 2nd Class Khanh Ngo, aviation machinist’s

Petty Officer 2nd Class Khanh Ngo, aviation machinist’s

Petty Officer 2nd Class Khanh Ngo, aviation machinist’s mate of San Jose, Calif., uses an interactive electronic technical manual to read the required maintenance needed on the tail rotor of an SH-60B/F from He... More

Air Force Master Sgt. Marc Maschhoff, attached to the

Air Force Master Sgt. Marc Maschhoff, attached to the

Air Force Master Sgt. Marc Maschhoff, attached to the 35th Fighter Wing and a native of Anchorage, Alaska, clears debris in the tsunami-ravaged city of Noda, Japan. More than 80 sailors, Marines, airmen and civ... More

Members from the 730th Air Mobility Squadron and a

Members from the 730th Air Mobility Squadron and a

Members from the 730th Air Mobility Squadron and a loadmaster from the 36th Airlift Squadron load five pallets of bottled water to a C-130 Hercules at Yokota Air Base, Japan. After two consecutive days of flyin... More

Maj. John Traxler, 320th Special Tactics Squadron commander,

Maj. John Traxler, 320th Special Tactics Squadron commander,

Maj. John Traxler, 320th Special Tactics Squadron commander, rushes to help two loadmasters from the 353rd Special Operations Group push a stack of aircraft pallets onto an MC-130P Combat Shadow at Sendai Airpo... More

Stacks of shoe boxes await sorting as Misawa Air Base

Stacks of shoe boxes await sorting as Misawa Air Base

Stacks of shoe boxes await sorting as Misawa Air Base personnel organize materials donated to Japan by listeners of the "Ron and Don" radio show. The program organized and shipped more than 96,000 pounds of don... More

Sailors move food and water onto an HH-60H Sea Hawk

Sailors move food and water onto an HH-60H Sea Hawk

Sailors move food and water onto an HH-60H Sea Hawk assigned to the Black Knights of Anti- Submarine Squadron (HS) 4 on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76). Ronald Reagan is off t... More

A pararescueman with the 320th Special Tactics Squadron

A pararescueman with the 320th Special Tactics Squadron

A pararescueman with the 320th Special Tactics Squadron looks through rubble to find survivors at Sendai Airport, March 16. The dirt along the ground-level exterior walls shows just how high the water level ros... More

Key Spouse Tina Farless, wife of 35th Medical Group's

Key Spouse Tina Farless, wife of 35th Medical Group's

Key Spouse Tina Farless, wife of 35th Medical Group's 1st Sgt. Randy Farless, assists Misawa families with paperwork required to take advantage of the Department of State approved voluntary departure of family ... More

A CH-46E Sea Knight helicopter carrying humanitarian

A CH-46E Sea Knight helicopter carrying humanitarian

A CH-46E Sea Knight helicopter carrying humanitarian assistance supplies takes off from the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex. Essex, with the embarked 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, is operat... More

Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan is briefed about the

Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan is briefed about the

Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan is briefed about the state of Ishanomaki High School by Japanese Ground Self Defense Force Lt. Gen. Yuji Kuno, the comander of the 6th Division, JGSDF, at Ishanomaki City's high... More

Petty Officer 2nd Class Jeremy Yerrick, builder, from

Petty Officer 2nd Class Jeremy Yerrick, builder, from

Petty Officer 2nd Class Jeremy Yerrick, builder, from Bothell, Wash., assigned to Underwater Construction Team 2, clears out snow from a small boat as he and members of his team prepare to scan the bottom of a ... More

Lieutenant Col. Karl C. Rohr, dean of warfighting with

Lieutenant Col. Karl C. Rohr, dean of warfighting with

Lieutenant Col. Karl C. Rohr, dean of warfighting with the Marine Corps University, Command and Staff College, shakes hands with a high school student from Tōhoku, Japan during a float judging for the Rose Para... More

A woman combs through the debris here March 21. Marines

A woman combs through the debris here March 21. Marines

A woman combs through the debris here March 21. Marines with III Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward) deployed a humanitarian assistance survey team to assess the damage to the Ofunato port and bridge after an ... More

A Japanese front-end loader begins clearing debris

A Japanese front-end loader begins clearing debris

A Japanese front-end loader begins clearing debris at Sendai Airport to make the apron ready for aircraft.

Residents comb through the debris here March 21 after

Residents comb through the debris here March 21 after

Residents comb through the debris here March 21 after an earthquake and tsunami damaged the coastal area. Marines with III Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward) deployed a humanitarian assistance team to survey ... More

Burned buildings and debris surrounds the port here,

Burned buildings and debris surrounds the port here,

Burned buildings and debris surrounds the port here, March 27, 2011, the result of the 9.0 earthquake and tsunami. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Capt. Caleb Eames/Released)

Japanese Defense Minister Toshimi Kitazawa addresses

Japanese Defense Minister Toshimi Kitazawa addresses

Japanese Defense Minister Toshimi Kitazawa addresses sailors and Marines during an all hands call in the hangar bay of the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76). Senior U.S. and Japan leaders visited Rona... More

A member of the 36th Airlift Squadron gives "thumbs

A member of the 36th Airlift Squadron gives "thumbs

A member of the 36th Airlift Squadron gives "thumbs up" to a C-130 Hercules as it taxis out for take off. The members of the 36th AS are supporting of Operation Tomodachi.

USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) sailors wave to Japan Maritime

USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) sailors wave to Japan Maritime

USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) sailors wave to Japan Maritime Defense Force Ship helicopter destroyer JDS Hyuga (DDH 181) during a pass and review ceremony. Ronald Reagan is off the coast of Japan to provide disast... More

Members of the Fairfax County, Va., Task Force 1 Urban

Members of the Fairfax County, Va., Task Force 1 Urban

Members of the Fairfax County, Va., Task Force 1 Urban Search and Rescue leave in buses from Kamaishi, Japan, to their base camp after searching structures and debris on March 16, 2011. A 9.0 earthquake hit Jap... More

A KC-130J Super Hercules cargo aircraft taxis on the

A KC-130J Super Hercules cargo aircraft taxis on the

A KC-130J Super Hercules cargo aircraft taxis on the runway here March 18 before taking off en route to mainland Japan. III MEF Marines and sailors are supporting Government of Japan-led humanitarian assistance... More

Gen. James F. Amos, 35th commandant of the Marine Corps,

Gen. James F. Amos, 35th commandant of the Marine Corps,

Gen. James F. Amos, 35th commandant of the Marine Corps, talks to Marines and sailors at Camp Schwab’s theater, June 13. The general and Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps Micheal P. Barrett, the 17th sergeant ... More

Jasmine Segura member of CA-TF2 and her working dog,

Jasmine Segura member of CA-TF2 and her working dog,

Jasmine Segura member of CA-TF2 and her working dog, Cadillac get thanked by a Japanese citizen for their aid during a ride to their search and recovery site on March 15, 2011. Members of the Los Angeles, Calif... More

Gabe Larios a firefighter with CA-TF2 watches as citizens

Gabe Larios a firefighter with CA-TF2 watches as citizens

Gabe Larios a firefighter with CA-TF2 watches as citizens work on clearing debris during a search in Ofunato, Japan on March 15, 2011. Members of the Los Angeles, Calif. Search and Rescue Team, Task Force 2 are... More

A family photo album lies amongst the debris and wreckage

A family photo album lies amongst the debris and wreckage

A family photo album lies amongst the debris and wreckage on March 17, 2011, in Unosumai, Japan. A 9.0 earthquake hit Japan on March 11 that caused a tsunami that destroyed anything in its path.

Total Force airmen simultaneously support operations in Libya, Japan, Afghanistan, Iraq and more

Total Force airmen simultaneously support operations in Libya, Japan, ...

Airmen load a pallet on to a C-17 Globemaster III at March Air Reserve Base, Calif., March 12, in support of Operation Tomodachi. The supplies were en route to Japan for earthquake relief efforts. (U.S. Air Fo... More

Sgt. John Smith, an embarkation chief with Combat Logistics

Sgt. John Smith, an embarkation chief with Combat Logistics

Sgt. John Smith, an embarkation chief with Combat Logistics Regiment 37, 3rd Marine Logistics Group, III Marine Expeditionary Force, tightens a strap to hold down bottled water and Chemical Biological Radiologi... More

Cmdr. Doug Huggins, air operations deputy officer for

Cmdr. Doug Huggins, air operations deputy officer for

Cmdr. Doug Huggins, air operations deputy officer for Atsugi Air Station answers questions to military families about plans for a voluntary authorized departure here March 18. The commander held two town hall b... More

Petty Officer 1st Class Brandon Martin, engineman,

Petty Officer 1st Class Brandon Martin, engineman,

Petty Officer 1st Class Brandon Martin, engineman, left, uses an IM-271/PD Radiacmeter to detect possible surface contaminates on Airman Eddie Sanchez, aviation boatswain's mate (fuel), aboard the aircraft carr... More

Mobility Airman profile: AMC aerial porter at Yokota supports Operation Tomodachi

Mobility Airman profile: AMC aerial porter at Yokota supports Operatio...

Airman 1st Class Hayden Boeglin, 730th Air Mobility Squadron, strips off a chain from supplies to be loaded onto a C-17 Globemaster III on March 20, at Yokota Air Base, Japan. The supplies were delivered to Sen... More

USS Blue Ridge, US Navy Photogrpah

USS Blue Ridge, US Navy Photogrpah

Sailors arrange pallets on the main deck aboard the U.S. 7th Fleet command ship USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19) during a vertical replenishment. Blue Ridge transferred pallets of humanitarian assistance supplies to the... More

USS Tortuga - Public domain banknote scan

USS Tortuga - Public domain banknote scan

Seaman Apprentice Joshua Rios moves pallets of food and supplies aboard the amphibious dock landing ship USS Tortuga (LSD 46) during an underway replenishment. Tortuga is off the coast of Japan supporting Opera... More

Lt. Col. Miyake Takashi, chief of logistics for a bilateral

Lt. Col. Miyake Takashi, chief of logistics for a bilateral

Lt. Col. Miyake Takashi, chief of logistics for a bilateral crisis action team, discusses relief efforts with Capt. Ryan Weisheyer, a logistics officer for the Joint Forces Land Component Command. The JFLCC was... More

Petty Officer 2nd Class Maurice Snipes, a Naval air

Petty Officer 2nd Class Maurice Snipes, a Naval air

Petty Officer 2nd Class Maurice Snipes, a Naval air crewman and a sensor operator from Orlando, Fla., attached to Patrol Squadron (VP) 4, guides a fuel truck into position prior to refueling a P-3C Orion aircra... More

A Marine with Battalion Landing Team, 2d Battalion,

A Marine with Battalion Landing Team, 2d Battalion,

A Marine with Battalion Landing Team, 2d Battalion, 5th Marines, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, helps a local man remove an unscathed table from a severely damaged house here during Operation Field Day, a debr... More

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