“We are systematizing a lot of things,” Captain Yoshihiro Iwata, 44, said when the frigate was docked recently in Sasebo, in southwestern Japan. “But, to be honest,” he added, “one person is doing two or three different jobs.”
The contact cards are “an effort to cut through any confusion and ensure all of us understand required steps and have critical points of contact on hand in an emergency situation,” III MEF commander Lt. Gen. James W. Bierman said in a June 8 message.
NAHA A weakened Tropical Storm Mawar headed toward Japan s southern archipelago of Okinawa on Thursday, leading businesses and the airport to close and fishermen to batten down their boats in preparation.
A weakened Tropical Storm Mawar headed toward Japan's southern archipelago of Okinawa on Thursday, leading businesses and the airport to close and fishermen to batten down their boats in preparation. Many residents in the prefectural capital of Naha on the main Okinawan island, where about 20,000 U.S. forces are based,…