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Litt Okinawa SHARE your piece of pARAdise with us VOLUME 13 NO. 27 JUNE 27 − JULY 3, 2019 SUBMIT STORIES TO: [email protected] STRIPESOKINAWA.COM FACEBOOK.COM/STRIPESPACIFIC FREE It’s Typhoon Season! Be prepared! BY DAVE ORNAUER, There were seven super typhoons in typhoon season. What to STARS AND STRIPES the 2018 season, including Yutu, which do, where to go, how to Published: May 5, 2019 devastated Saipan and Tinian in the prepare when one of those northern Marianas islands – the stron- nasty things bears down n less than a month, the northwest Pa- gest in recorded history to hit a U.S. on your area. cific’s tropical cyclone season begins possession or territory. And in February, with the issuance of seasonal Tropi- I that area also saw Super Typhoon Wutip, cal Cyclone Condition of TWO KEYS: which just missed Guam. Readiness 4 for U.S. bases Preparation, EXCLUSIVE NEWS FROM: Super Typhoon Trami communication on Okinawa and seasonal Stars and Stripes is asking readers became the worst storm •It is never too early to get sup- TCCOR 5 at Sasebo Naval to write about their own piece of to hit Okinawa in six plied for tropical cyclones. Base and Marine Corps paradise. Yes, that means you! years, flooded significant One never knows, after the Our annual Destination Paradise Air Station Iwakuni. portions of the island and season actually begins, when magazine highlights must-see travel On average, the northwest Pacific sees left parts of it without power for nearly one might strike. Keep non-per- spots across the Pacific — and your bit 32 numbered tropical cyclones per sea- a week. ishables, drinking water, batteries, of paradise could be included in our son, some as weak as a tropical depres- This blog post is designed to get folks flashlights and portable radios and 2019-20 edition that hits the streets sion and some equal to Category 5 hur- ready – especially newcomers who aren’t on Pacific bases in September. ricanes in the States. used to such beasts – for the upcoming SEE TYPHOON ON PAGE 8 Submit your story and photos to [email protected] by July 17, and we’ll make you famous! C - The Stripes Okinawa staff heckout our previous Destination nawa Paradise mags ki O nd south-of-the-b le sles a ord tt rn i in Yokohama er i the erge L u v BY neighborhood 15 miles south of central n TAKAHIRO TAKIGUCHI, o o Tokyo “Little Okinawa.” S c STRIPES OKINAWA “Although this may not look like an Okinawan community,” says Yuta Shi- here is no tower- mozato, “while walking down the street ing Ryukyu gate. you can hear people speaking the Oki- There are no ‘shi- T nawan dialect or playing the ‘sanshin’ sa’ lion statutes standing guard. INSIDE INFO (Okinawan banjo).” Just a few Okinawan restau- At more than 20,000 strong, this is rants and grocers scattered Japan’s largest Okinawan community amid small car-repair and outside of Okinawa, surpassing its well- sheet-metal shops. known counterpart in Osaka by several Look – or better yet, listen – a little closer, however, and you may soon see and hear why SEE TSURUMI ON they call this quaint residential PAGE 4 HIGH INTENSITY AT CAMP HANSEN PAGE 2 i urum Ts PAGES 4-5 OKINAWA CORPSMAN GOES INTERNATIONAL PAGE 3 Okinawa PAG E 7 2 STRIPES OKINAWA A STARS AND STRIPES COMMUNITY PUBLICATION JUNE 27 − JULY 3, 2019 Max D. Lederer Jr. Publisher Lt. Col. Richard E. McClintic Commander Joshua M Lashbrook Chief of Staff Michael Davidson Revenue Director Chris Verigan Engagement Director Marie Woods Publishing and Media Design Director Chris Carlson Publishing and Media Design Manager Kentaro Shimura Production Manager Rie Miyoshi Engagement Manager Scott Wheeler Okinawa Area Manager Denisse Rauda Publishing and Media Design Editor A U.S. Marine with Marine Corps Installations Pacific, competes in the High Intensity Tactical Training Preliminary Challenge on Camp Publishing and Media Design Writers Hansen, Okinawa, Japan, June 15. Photos by Lance Cpl. Christopher ChiHon Kim Shoji Kudaka Madero,U.S Marine Corps Takahiro Takiguchi Layout Designers Ayako Kamio Yukiyo Oda Yuko Okazaki Kayoko Shimoda HIGH INTENSITY Multimedia Consultants Max Genao Doug Johnson at Camp Hansen Brian Jones Jason Lee Hans Simpson Chae Pang Yi Gianni Youn Robert Zuckerman BY MAJ. ANDREW ARANDA possibly earn the title “HITT Champion.” MARINE CORPS INSTALLATIONS PACIFIC Graphic Designers “Active duty Marines are the ones who Kenichi Ogasawara Yosuke Tsuji can participate in the HITT Challenge” said CAMP HANSEN – U.S. Marines stationed Sales Support Gina Galbraith, Camp Foster’s HITT unit across Okinawa competed in the 5th annual Kazumi Hasegawa Hiromi Isa physical training coordinator, “the HITT Ichiro Katayanagi Yoko Noro High Intensity Tactical Training Prelimi- Yoichi Okazaki Yusuke Sato program is for Marines.” Chae Yon Son Saori Tamanaha nary Challenge at the parade deck on Camp Hansen on June 15. The HITT program provides an alter- The HITT Championship is a competition native source of strength and conditioning For feedback and inquiries, that enrolls the winners of preliminary chal- training for combat readiness. The program contact [email protected] lenges from across all Marine Corps installa- includes a research-based curriculum cou- tions. The top male and female competitors pled with practical application to develop To place an ad, call DSN 645-7419 in the preliminary challenge are allotted warrior athletes, and follows national stan- stripesokinawa.com/contact the chance to travel to the United States to dards set by the National Strength and Con- participate in the HITT Championship, and ditioning Agency. +81 (3) 5441-9800 JUNE 27 − JULY 3, 2019 A STARS AND STRIPES COMMUNITY PUBLICATION STRIPES OKINAWA 3 Okinawa corpsman goes international STORY AND PHOTO BY field after she had worked at a for me in Michigan. first time being on a field opera- CPL. TIMOTHY HERNANDEZ, nursing home. Seeking this ful- tion with Marines. I get to see 3RD MARINE DIVISION fillment, she knew that the mili- Is that what made you want how it is to work outside of an ac- to become a corpsman? tual hospital or clinic. It’s really .S. Navy Petty Officer 3rd tary had medical specialties, and Q: A: Yeah, I talked to a recruiter, cool to see how much equipment Class Amanda Davis is a enlisted into the Navy as a corps- but being a corpsman wasn’t the Mongolians have out here corpsman with 3rd Law man. U available at the time. I enlisted too; an X-ray, surgical room and Enforcement Battalion from Oki- anyways, knowing I could still a laboratory. I’m really glad I’m nawa, Japan and is participating Why did you want to join become a corpsman someday. able to be a part of this. in Khaan Quest 2019 at Five Hills the U.S. Navy? Q: I signed an undesignated con- Training Area, Ulaanbaatar, A: A lot of my family are prior tract and ended up as an aviation Why is it important that Mongolia, from June 14-28. sailors. I tried to go to college to boatsman mate for a few years more women are being in- Davis, a White Cloud, Mich. do my own thing, ran out of schol- Q: until I was eligible to cross-rate cluded into peacekeeping opera- native, attended college for arship money, and wasn’t really into becoming a corpsman. In tions? graphic design before enlisting getting anywhere. I was always the end, I still got to be what I A: “I think it’s good to have the into the U.S. Navy, but felt unsat- interested in the medical field, wanted to in the beginning. diversity during operations for isfied with where she was head- but I had no more money and multiple reasons. I personally ing. She looked into the medical there wasn’t much opportunity So, what so you think about think women are able to multi- actually being a corpsman U.S. Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class task and see the bigger picture in Q: Amanda Davis stands outside the after finally making it? medical tent at Five Hills Training Area, a different light. Another reason A: It’s a lot of learning, it’s very Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia on June 12. would be the career opportuni- difficult, but I really enjoy it. I ties and personal experience you did a lot of research into it before into the civilian sector in so get from spending time in this joining. I’ve had a lot of opportu- many ways. environment. A lot of branches nities from it. I got my EMT li- over the years saved the difficult cense from this and my medical What do you think about or dirty work for the men in the assistant certificate. There’s a lot Q:participating in Khaan service, but I think now the op- more training we have chances Quest 2019? portunity to share that is becom- to receive, and it crosses over A: It’s eye opening. This is my ing more equal.” 4 STRIPES OKINAWA A STARS AND STRIPES COMMUNITY PUBLICATION JUNE 27 − JULY 3, 2019 I: munity M an com U w from South America a in this district have Okinawan R n les origins.” i is Koreatown,” Shimozato said. During Japan’s great migration to k Okinawans began flocking to Tsu- the area, the government also encour- eCONTINUED h rumi to work in factories in the 1920s aged Japanese to immigrate to South U t FROM PAGE 1 O f when the area was developed as a part America to escape and alleviate the so- cial chaos after the 1923 Great Kanto t thousand, according to Shimo- of the Keihin (Tokyo-Yokohama) indus- S o Earthquake and the 1927 Showa Finan- s zato.
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