DEFENDER is the Army’s largest annual opportunity to exercise moving personnel and equipment into theater across modes for initial and follow-on operations critical to Large Scale Combat Operations. Led by U.S. Army Europe and Africa, the exercise focuses on the strategic deployment of CONUS-based forces, employment of Army Prepositioned Stock and follow-on exercises demonstrating lethality and interoperability with Allies and partners

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Video by Cpl. Ramon Cardoza
Who’s Thirsty?
III MEF Information Group
April 20, 2025 | 0:30
U.S. Marines with 9th Engineer Support Battalion, 3rd Marine Logistics Group, set up a water purification system in support of Kaiju Rain 25 at the Ie Shima Training Facility, Okinawa, Japan, April 19, 2025. Exercise Kaiju Rain 25 enhances III Marine Expeditionary Force Information Group’s ability to conduct command and control, employ sensor capabilities and integrate multi-domain operations to enable III MEF, the joint force, and allies and partners in the Indo-Pacific region. The video contains music from a USMC enterprise licensed asset from Adobe Stock: Ride The Wave performed by Fatima Mhedden/stock.adobe.com (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Ramon Cardoza)
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