Trump Taps New Marine Commander for Key US Force in Japan
Mihaela Măncilă
New leadership is likely headed to one of the U.S. military’s most consequential overseas commands, with tens of thousands of Marines in Japan set to fall under a new commander as Washington sharpens its Indo-Pacific posture. President Donald Trump nominated Lt. Gen. Benjamin Watson on Wednesday to command III Marine Expeditionary Force (III MEF) and Marine Forces Japan, putting him in charge of the Marine Corps’ only permanently forward-deployed expeditionary force. The Okinawa-based command
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