A Marine Corps Osprey accidentally dropped a load of rations weighing nearly 1,000 pounds into the ocean west of Okinawa during training last week.

Japan’s Supreme Court recently denied Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki’s final legal challenge to stop construction at a future Marine Corps airfield in the island’s north.

Okinawa’s governor has delivered official protest letters to two Japanese government officials over the latest sexual assault allegation against a U.S. service member.

The Marine Corps is seeking feedback from active-duty troops about its programs to remove or secure the objects that facilitate suicide.

Gen. Eric Smith, the Marine Corps commandant, said Marines are different, even when it comes to beards. Smith told reporters Wednesday that the service would not make any changes to its regulations that would allow Marines to grow beards.

A construction vessel leaked oil at the site of a future Marine Corps airfield in northern Okinawa this week but caused no environmental damage, according to Japan’s coast guard.

The commandant of the Marine Corps warned this week that a plan to move thousands of troops from Okinawa to Guam would position forces too far away to deter Chinese aggression in the Indo-Pacific, according to media reports.

A Marine Corps Osprey made a precautionary landing at a commercial airport in southern Japan on Tuesday after a warning light activated.

Hospital officials called county deputies when Cpl. Carlos Zamudio, who they reported as having injuries to his head, brought his “severely” injured wife, Savannah Encke, into the emergency room. She died shortly after.

Police on Okinawa suspect a U.S. Marine of sexually assaulting and injuring a woman in November, the fourth such case to surface over the past year.