PACIFIC OCEAN (May 27, 2022) Japan Air Self-Defense Force Lt. Col. Jun Saito, a staff officer with Air Defense Command, right, speaks with Maj. Eisuke Inatsu, an aircraft maintenance officer, while observing U.S. Marines aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Tripoli (LHA 7), while underway, May 27, 2022. Marines with Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 121, based out of Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, are conducting lightning carrier operations in support of a free and open Indo-Pacific. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Jackson Ricker)