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Apr 17, 2013 | Stars and Stripes

DOD budget woes force Iwakuni to cancel annual Friendship Day celebration

Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni's popular open-base event known as Friendship Day has been canceled this year due to sequestration.

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Thu Apr 04, 2013

Aero-News Network

Small Aircraft Pull Their Weight For USMC

Like "Rudy" Ruettiger of the 1975 Notre Dame football team, the Marine Corps UC-12W aircraft is respected among large tactical aircraft in current theaters of war, despite its smaller-than-average stature.

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Sat Mar 30, 2013

The Japan Times

Another 12 Ospreys headed to Japan in July, bound for Futenma

Hybrid transport: Three Osprey MV-22 transport aircraft depart U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni in Yamaguchi Prefecture on March 8. Japan and the United States are arranging to ship a second batch of 12 MV-22 Osprey aircraft in July, likely to a Marine Corps base in the Chugoku region before their deployment in Okinawa, sources close to ... (more)

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