Previous Story
Marines’ arrivals pushed back to Friday
|
Posted on May 09 2012
By Haidee V. Eugenio
Reporter
Reporter
The arrival on Tinian of some 100 U.S. Marines from Japan that will take part in Exercise Geiger Fury 2012 has been pushed back to Friday instead of today, the Marine Forces Pacific Guam and CNMI said last night.
Lt. Col. Aisha Bakkar said the new arrival time is 7am Friday, May 11, adding that the schedule changes frequently because of weather conditions and refueling requirements.
The high-speed vessel carrying some 100 Marines will go back to Japan to fetch the rest, for a total of around 200 U.S. Marines taking part in the exercise, intended to allow Marine Aircraft Group-12 out of Japan “to improve aviation combat readiness and simulate operations in a deployed austere environment.”
Geiger Fury could well be the biggest military training to occur on Tinian, decades after the island played a decisive role to end World War II. The island was the launching pad for the two atomic bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan.
The May 14 to June 8 training on Tinian will be held simultaneously with training in Guam involving some 700 personnel.
Geiger Fury 2012 will be conducted on both West and North Fields on Tinian in the CNMI, while Aviation Training Relocation will be conducted at Andersen Air Force Base in Guam.
