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The Expert Soldier Badge competition, the first ever for U.S. Army Japan, began Monday with a field of 121 from across Japan and Guam. The competing troops spent a week training for the tests they would face.
Airborne 22 took place Tuesday and Wednesday. Thirteen Air Force C-130J Super Hercules flew the Japanese paratroopers and cargo loads from Yokota to a drop zone at Combined Arms Training Center Camp Fuji.
Marines stopped live-fire practice near Mount Fuji on Thursday after learning that a stray machine gun round may have landed outside their training area.