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Students sit around a table practicing calligraphy - CAMP HANSEN, OKINAWA, Japan – Kumiko Tamashiko, middle, teaches Pfc. Nicholas N. Garcia, right, how to hold a calligraphy brush at the library Jan. 8 aboard Camp Hansen, Okinawa, Japan. As Tamashiko taught the Marines how to write in the three Japanese languages hiragana, katakana, and kanji she stressed the importance of taking your time. Japanese calligraphers believe that the speed, acceleration and deceleration of the writer’s moves and turns give spirit and intention to the individual characters. Tamashiko is a library technician at the Camp Hansen Library. Garcia is a transmissions system operator with 9th Engineer Support Battalion, 3rd Marine Logistics Group, III Marine Expeditionary Force. (U.S Marine photo by Lance Corporal Tayler P. Schwamb)
Keiko Onaga, center, stands with Col. James G. Flynn, left, and Sgt. Maj. Delvin R. Smythe thanking Onaga for her 44 years of dedicated service Dec. 18 at the Marine Corps Air Station Futenma Chaplain’s Office. Flynn is the commanding officer, and Smythe is the sergeant major of MCAS Futenma. (Courtesy photo) - Keiko Onaga, center, stands with Col. James G. Flynn, left, and Sgt. Maj. Delvin R. Smythe thanking Onaga for her 44 years of dedicated service Dec. 18 at the Marine Corps Air Station Futenma Chaplain’s Office. Flynn is the commanding officer, and Smythe is the sergeant major of MCAS Futenma. (Courtesy photo)