F-15E Strike Eagles taxiing at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam
When in 2006 the United States and Japan agreed to move 8,000 US Marines from Okinawa to Guam by 2014 they might not have fully understood how big a job that could be. Only the political imperative to reduce the American military “footprint” on Okinawa was paramount.
Okinawa has been a garrison …