"Ground Self Defense Force"

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21 September 2025

NOWA DEBA, POLAND – SEPTEMBER 18: An engineer and explosive ordnance specialist demonstrates the use of a PFM-1 Petal self-destructing anti-personnel mine to Polish Army soldiers from the 3rd Podkarpacka Territorial Defense Brigade at the Nowa Deba training area during exercise Iron Defender 25 in Nowa Deba, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, Poland, on September 18, 2025. Iron Defender 25, Poland’s largest military exercise of the year, is being conducted across multiple locations including Orzysz, Dęba, Ustka, and additional field sites, involving 30,000 troops and 600 military units from Poland and NATO allies to evaluate defense capabilities across land, air, sea, and cyber domains.

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#3276156

9 October 2018

A visitor poses for a photo inside a military vehicle at the "Arms and Security 2018" exhibition in Kiev, Ukraine, 09 October 2018. The exhibition presents armament segments and means of individual equipment of a soldier on the battlefield,equipment and armament of ground forces,weapons and equipment of law enforcement agencies,facilities of border control and military aviation, and will take place in Kiev from 09 to 12 October 2018.

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#2599468

7 April 2018

Soldiers of Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF), the brand-new Marinesnamed The Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade attend a ceremony in Camp Ainoura in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan on April 7, 2018, as Japan seeks to expand the the military defend against North Korea's nuclear and missile programs and China's maritime assertiveness over theSenkaku Islands. The launch of the Ground Component Command to provide unified command over regional armies and the Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade, Japan's version of the U.S. Marines.

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#2599469

7 April 2018

Soldiers of Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF), the brand-new Marinesnamed The Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade attend a ceremony in Camp Ainoura in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan on April 7, 2018, as Japan seeks to expand the the military defend against North Korea's nuclear and missile programs and China's maritime assertiveness over theSenkaku Islands. The launch of the Ground Component Command to provide unified command over regional armies and the Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade, Japan's version of the U.S. Marines.

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#2599470

7 April 2018

Soldiers of Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF), the brand-new Marinesnamed The Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade attend a ceremony in Camp Ainoura in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan on April 7, 2018, as Japan seeks to expand the the military defend against North Korea's nuclear and missile programs and China's maritime assertiveness over theSenkaku Islands. The launch of the Ground Component Command to provide unified command over regional armies and the Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade, Japan's version of the U.S. Marines.

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#2599471

7 April 2018

Soldiers of Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF), the brand-new Marinesnamed The Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade attend a ceremony in Camp Ainoura in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan on April 7, 2018, as Japan seeks to expand the the military defend against North Korea's nuclear and missile programs and China's maritime assertiveness over theSenkaku Islands. The launch of the Ground Component Command to provide unified command over regional armies and the Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade, Japan's version of the U.S. Marines.

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#2599472

7 April 2018

Soldiers of Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF), the brand-new Marinesnamed The Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade attend a ceremony in Camp Ainoura in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan on April 7, 2018, as Japan seeks to expand the the military defend against North Korea's nuclear and missile programs and China's maritime assertiveness over theSenkaku Islands. The launch of the Ground Component Command to provide unified command over regional armies and the Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade, Japan's version of the U.S. Marines.

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#2599473

7 April 2018

Soldiers of Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF), the brand-new Marinesnamed The Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade attend a ceremony in Camp Ainoura in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan on April 7, 2018, as Japan seeks to expand the the military defend against North Korea's nuclear and missile programs and China's maritime assertiveness over theSenkaku Islands. The launch of the Ground Component Command to provide unified command over regional armies and the Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade, Japan's version of the U.S. Marines.

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#2599474

7 April 2018

Soldiers of Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF), the brand-new Marinesnamed The Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade attend a ceremony in Camp Ainoura in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan on April 7, 2018, as Japan seeks to expand the the military defend against North Korea's nuclear and missile programs and China's maritime assertiveness over theSenkaku Islands. The launch of the Ground Component Command to provide unified command over regional armies and the Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade, Japan's version of the U.S. Marines.

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