By SETH ROBSON | STARS AND STRIPES Published: April 28, 2021 When the coronavirus pandemic recedes in the Philippines, some children living near its capital city will return to a renovated school thanks to U.S. and Philippine combat engineers. Seventeen Marines and a Navy corpsman from the 9th Engineer Support Battalion out of Camp Hansen, Okinawa, worked over the past month with about 20 members of the Philippine army’s 564th Engineer Construction Battalion to improve Ilosong Elementary School in Quezon City. “Humanitarian assistance projects are the second-best thing we can get besides a combat deployment as combat engineers,” 1st Lt. Julian Taruc, 26, who led Marines involved in the project, said in a telephone interview Friday.
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OKINAWA, Japan
At a Christmas party held at Camp Schwab in 2019, a tall blue-eyed gentleman greeted the guests from the neighboring communities in fluent Japanese. His Japanese was so good that he needed no translator and his demeanor was reminiscent of a Japanese native.
This gentleman was Col. Jason S. D. Perry, the current assistant division commander of 3rd Marine Division at Camp Courtney. He most recently came to Okinawa in 2018 as the commanding officer of 4th Marine Regiment at Camp Schwab.
He joined the Marine Corps in 1994 after graduating from Brigham Young University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Japanese. His father is also a retired Marine who was in Okinawa in the 1960s during the Vietnam War.
40 At a Christmas party held at Camp Schwab in 2019, a tall blue-eyed gentleman greeted the guests from the neighboring communities in fluent Japanese. His Japanese was so good that he needed no translator and his demeanor was reminiscent of a Japanese native.
This gentleman was Col. Jason S. D. Perry, the current assistant division commander of 3rd Marine Division at Camp Courtney. He most recently came to Okinawa in 2018 as the commanding officer of 4th Marine Regiment at Camp Schwab.
He joined the Marine Corps in 1994 after graduating from Brigham Young University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Japanese. His father is also a retired Marine who was in Okinawa in the 1960s during the Vietnam War.
. TOKYO – A relatively quiet Wednesday passed for U.S. military commands in Japan and South Korea, which reported just a few fresh coronavirus cases as of 6 p.m. All three new patients tested positive for COVID-19 at Camp Hansen, according to a Facebook post by Marine Corps Installations Pacific. Meanwhile, Japan’s two biggest metropolitan areas continued to report increasing numbers of people struck with COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the coronavirus. Tokyo reported another 843 had contracted the virus Wednesday, according to public broadcaster NHK. That’s the city’s highest one-day count since a state of emergency there ended March 21, according to metropolitan government data.