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Friday, February 15, 2013

GSDF personnel train on Ospreys for the first time

MV-22 Osprey |Ground Self-Defense Force personnel boarded MV-22 Osprey aircraft for training for the first time Wednesday.

During a joint drill open to the media, about 50 members of the GSDF Western Army Infantry Regiment for defending Japan’s remote islands boarded four of the tilt-rotor aircraft to practice recapturing an islet occupied by an enemy.

The drill involving the Self-Defense Forces and the U.S. military was designed to demonstrate their close cooperation amid the territorial dispute over the uninhabited Senkaku Islands, which are under Japan’s control, in the East China Sea.

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