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The United States Marine Corps (USMC), also referred to as the United States Marines or simply the Marines, is the naval infantry service branch of the United States Armed Forces. The service is responsible for conducting expeditionary and amphibious warfare through combined arms, implementing its own infantry, artillery, aerial, and special operations forces. The U.S. Marine Corps is a part of the United States Department of Defense and is one of the six armed forces of the United States and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States.
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All U.S. military operations on the island will cease for 48 hours for a standards training period, followed by a 30-day reflection period.
The two-day stand-down follows years of Okinawan anger over crimes linked to US troops, including sexual violence, and renewed demands for greater accountability.
The arrest of a U.S. marine on suspicion of murdering an Okinawan woman has led to a reckoning with U.S. military presence in Japan.