MCWL participates in Keen Sword 2025.
241027-M-AJ782-1262.JPG Photo By: Kevin Ray Salvador

Dec 3, 2024
IE SHIMA, OKINAWA, JAPAN - From right, U.S. Marine Corps 1st Lt. Nicholas A. Thomas, 3rd Intelligence Battalion Ie Shima site officer-in-charge, discusses the work on the lightweight, mobile, and cost-effective radar system to Sgt. Maj. Junior E. Diaz, 12th Marine Littoral Regiment sergeant major, as part of Keen Sword 25, Oct. 27, 2024 at Ie Shima, Okinawa, Japan. Keen Sword is a biennial, joint and bilateral field-training exercise involving U.S. military and Japan Self-Defense Force personnel, designed to increase readiness and interoperability while strengthening the ironclad U.S.-Japan alliance. During Keen Sword, the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory leveraged the exercise environment to work with emerging concepts, technologies, and capabilities, providing valuable insights to advance joint interoperability and operational effectiveness in support of the U.S.-Japan alliance. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Kevin Ray J. Salvador)


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