The transfer of U.S. Marine Corps troops from Okinawa to Guam has begun, under an agreement reached more than a decade ago as part of efforts to reduce the base-hosting burden on local communities in Japan's southern island prefecture, the Japanese Defense Ministry said Saturday.Some 100 logistics personnel will be relocated to Guam through 2025, as the first of the over 4,000 members of the Corps to be transferred. Some 5,000 more are also expected to move out of Japan, to locations such as Hawaii, but the timeline for the completion is unclear."A major milestone has been reached since the…READ FULL ARTICLE
