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- Thanks for joining us,

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I'm Lance Corporal Devon Phommachanh.

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A pilot flying a US Marine Corps AV8 aircraft safely ejected

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before the plane crashed about 100 nautical miles

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off the east coast of Okinawa.

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The pilot was successfully rescued by the 33rd Rescue

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Squadron from Kadena Air Base.

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The cause of the incident is under investigation.

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During World War II US Marines stormed the beaches

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on Guam to liberate the island from Japanese forces.

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Today, US troops are using beaches on that same island

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to train amphibious landing operations during exercise

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Valiant Shield.

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- Taking a look at another portion of the exercise

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where Navy and Marines are integrating

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^sea and land-based training,

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^you can see the USS Germantown and USS Bombachard behind me.

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They'll be off-loading amphibious assault vehicles

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to conduct a raid here on this beach where I'm standing.

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Assault amphibious vehicles led the way

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carrying dozens of combat troops

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who secured the beach landing site.

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Then the LCATCs or Landing Craft Air Cushions

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stormed the beach and unloaded Humvees and armored vehicles

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to conduct a mechanized raid on a nearby airfield.

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^- [Voiceover male] I've been very impressed

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^with the teamwork between the Navy and Marine Corp

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^and the seven fleet Navy Task Force

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as well as working with our Air Force teammates.

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It's been great training and we need to do this

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kind of high level training in a joint

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environment as often as possible.

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- [Frazee] The amphibious landing event allowed

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sister services to work together

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to improve each other's complex expeditionary operations.

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Air Force Staff Sergeant Mariko Frazee,

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Reserve Craft Beach, Guam.

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- [Phommachanh] The armored vehicles drove down

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Guam's main highway which is named

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Marine Corps Drive in honor of the Marines

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who helped reclaim the island over 70 years ago.

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That does it for this news break.

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