1st Airborne Brigade (Japan)
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The 1st Airborne Brigade, also known as the Narashino Airborne Brigade, is stationed in the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Camp Narashino in Funabashi, Chiba Prefecture.
1st Airborne Brigade paratroopers in formation in the grounds of Camp Narashino.
Komatsu LAV (Light Armored Vehicle) on display with 1st Airborne Brigade markings.
JGSDF 1st Airborne Brigade Battalion Type flag.
Members of the 1st Airborne Brigade who participated in the Cobra Gold exercise (2012)
Akihiko Saito
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Akihiko Saito was a Japanese security specialist adviser who was captured by the Jaish Ansar al-Sunna in Iraq in 2005.
1st Airborne Brigade (Japan)
…Oregon Army National Guard's 2nd Battalion, 162nd Infantry Regiment. All of them were withdrawn following the end of the Japanese commitment in Iraq. Akihiko Saito Keisuke Itagaki…
Akihiko Saito in the mid 1980s when he was with the French Foreign Legion's 2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment.