The Iwakuni city government had submitted a request to the Chugoku-Shikoku Defense Bureau to not make it accepted practice to unload all Ospreys to be based in Japan at Iwakuni port. Ospreys have ...

The Iwakuni base is expected to be the third facility in Japan to host the U.S. Osprey. The plan sparked trepidation among local residents due to the tilt-rotor aircraft's history of accidents.

Jonathan Snyder is a reporter at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan. Most of his career was spent as an aerial combat photojournalist with the 3rd Combat Camera Squadron at Lackland Air Force ...