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U.S. And Japan ‘Stepping Up Our Game’ With More Industrial, Military Integration, Head of Pacific Fleet Says

U.S. And Japan ‘Stepping Up Our Game’ With More Industrial, Military Integration, Head of Pacific Fleet Says
Adm. Samuel Paparo, commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet, meets with local military leaders on Guam at Joint Region Marianas headquarters in Asan, Dec. 5. 2022. (U.S. Navy photo by Shaina O’Neal)

SAN DIEGO– The head of the U.S. Pacific Fleet said U.S. and Japanese forces are improving their military and industrial base integration to modernize the relationship in line with the Indo-pacific Strategy released in 2022. “Our operations together are increasingly partnered, we're spending more and more time in combined formations every single day. So really, across all of the joint functions, we’re both stepping up our game,” Adm. Samuel Paparo said here on Feb. 14 at the WEST 2024 conference…

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