Members from Combined Arms Training Center (CATC) Camp Fuji and Takigahara Garrison participate and attend the Annual Fire Memorial at Camp Fuji, Japan, Oct. 16, 2020.
Commander, Navy Region Japan Fire and Emergency Services Sasebo members transfer a simulated casualty during a joint shipboard damage control drill onboard Commander, Fleet Activities Sasebo Nov. 13, 2019.
Another year has passed for Combined Arms Training Center Camp Fuji, as the somber occasion brings Marines, sailors, and members of the local community together on Oct. 18 to remember the lives lost in a tragic 1979 fire.
Hundred of burning torches moved as a river of flames advancing through the black near-moonless night. Under glowing torchlight a hundred samurai in full armor, sword at the hip, their faces and armor illuminated by only their burning fires proceeded slowly through a narrow town street in modern-day Nagasaki Prefecture, their lord’s flowered...
