The U.S. Marine Corps on Thursday formally opened its new base on the U.S. territory of Guam that will host about 4,000 troops currently stationed in Japan's Okinawa, with the personnel transfer slated to begin in 2024.U.S. and Japanese officials attended a ceremony on the Pacific island marking the formal launch of Camp Blaz, whose $8 billion construction project has been funded with close to $3 billion from the Japanese government.The officials stressed steady progress in the construction of the base at the event, held on Guam's historic Asan Beach, where U.S. Marines landed in July 1944 …READ FULL ARTICLE
