Amphibious Rapid Response Brigade

Amphibious Rapid Response Brigade
Amphibious Rapid Response Brigade emblem
Lineup	April 8, 2018
Country	Japan
Armed forces	Self Defense Forces
Armed forces	Ground Self-Defense Forces
Type	brigade
Strength	approx. 2100
Location	Sasebo
commander
commander	Major General Shinichi Aoki

Founding ceremony (2018)

The activation ceremony of the Amphibious Rapid Reaction Brigade

The Amphibious quick reaction brigade ( 水陸機動団 , suiriku Kido-dan , English: Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade) is an amphibious combat unit of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces and was put into service on April 8 2018th The commander is Major General Shinichi Aoki.

It is the first combat unit for amphibious warfare modeled on the US Marines and the first after the Second World War with the former Japanese Marines .

The brigade with around 2,100 soldiers is deployed in the port city of Sasebo in the southwestern prefecture of Nagasaki and is subordinate to the ground self-defense forces . It was drawn up from the former Western Army Infantry Regiment (now renamed "1st Amphibious Rapid Deployment Regiment "). The main task of the rapid deployment brigade is to defend the remote south-western islands of Japan, the Nansei Islands, for example against attacks by the People's Republic of China .

organization

The organization:

• headquarters
  • Landing Battalion
  • Artillery Battalion
  • Reconnaissance Battalion
  • Telecommunication company
  • Logistics battalion
• 1st Amphibious Rapid Response Regiment
• 2nd Amphibious Rapid Reaction Regiment
• 3rd Amphibious Rapid Response Regiment (under construction)
• Training unit for amphibious rapid deployment

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.yahoo.com/news/japan-activates-first-marines-since-ww2-bolster-defenses-064938992--finance.html
2. ↑ https://www.nst.com.my/world/2018/04/354298/japan-activates-first-marines-world-war-2-bolster-defenses-against-china

Web links

• "Defense White Paper 2017" (Heisei 29-nen bōei hakusho) of the Ministry of Defense , p. 346: 自衛隊 初 の 本 格 的 な 水陸 両 用作 戦 部隊 「水陸 機動 機動 団」 の 新編 (Japanese, pdf version of part 3, chap. 1, Section 2 , English, pdf (there p. 326) )
• Ministry of Defense / Ground Self-Defense Forces: 水陸 機動 団