An airman charged with sexually assaulting a minor, testifying in the case for the first time in a Japanese court on Friday, said he believed the girl was 18 and gave her consent.

Command of the support arm for the Marine Corps’ rapid response force in the Indo-Pacific is now in the hands of a general on his third Okinawa tour.

The immunization clinic at Kadena Air Base reopened this week after an investigation into ineffective vaccines administered May 3 through July 29.

A U.S. Marine died after falling from a bridge over a dam in Nago City, military and local officials said.

The Marine Corps has deployed MQ-9A Reaper drones to Kadena Air Base to support surveillance training in southern Japan, according to the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing and Okinawa prefecture.

A U.S. airman charged with kidnapping and sexually assaulting a minor on Okinawa in December previously assaulted the girl at a convenience store earlier last year, the girl testified in court Friday.

The new U.S. consul general on Okinawa said he takes “very seriously” the indictments this year of U.S. service members for alleged sexual assaults, according to a prefectural spokesman.

Quarried material for a new U.S. military airfield is once again being shipped to a northern port after a nearly two-month pause spurred by a fatal truck accident.

Maj. Tobin Lewis, one of two pilots killed in an Osprey crash in Australia last August, also piloted a tiltrotor that went down off Okinawa in 2016, according to a Marine Corps report.

Okinawa prefecture’s capital city will evacuate 1,400 people next month while Japanese troops disarm and remove a suspected U.S. bomb left over from World War II.