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Members of the 374th Security Forces Squadron here conducted a joint response training exercise with members of the Japanese National Police-Fussa Division March 26 here.

Fussa officials came up with idea of a joint unexploded ordnance response and investigation exercise to educate new police leaders and patrolmen on responding to just such an incident at Yokota Air Base.

More than 20 security forces members and local policemen blended their unique talents during the exercise based in part on real attacks on the base during a Group of Eight summit in 2000 and shortly before a visit by then-President Bill Clinton in 1993. According to news reports, leftists radicals fired a pair of projectiles toward the base and one landed near the runway in 2000. In the 1993 attack, radicals fired two home-made rockets at the base and caused minimal damage.
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