Are Marines training to take PEDO-ISLANDS??
"Marines, airmen and soldiers recently practiced seizing a small Japanese island in an exercise that honed skills some experts say may be necessary in a face-off against China…“I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the Marines are engaging in these sorts of exercises because that’s exactly the combat environment that they’re most likely to find themselves in, at least in the near future,”"
https://www.stripes.com/news/troops-practice-island-seizing-in-the-pacific-amid-us-china-tensions-1.573799