page_title: 1st Airborne Brigade (Japan)
section_title: Local
hierarchical_section_title: 1st Airborne Brigade (Japan) / Deployment / Local
caption_attribution_description: English: In Narashino, Japan, JGSDF 1st Airborne Brigade 2009 first drop manuver. Taken by Los688. PD-self 日本語: 習志野演習場。2009年1月11日。第一空挺団降下訓練始めにて撮影。CH-47よりの降下。
context_page_description: The 1st Airborne Brigade, also known as the Narashino Airborne Brigade, is stationed in the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Camp Narashino in Funabashi, Chiba Prefecture.
  The Brigade serves as Japan's elite paratrooper unit meant to counter against either guerrillas or enemy special forces units. Since 1999 the Brigade has a "Guide Unit", serving as its NEO unit. Currently, they are attached to current homeland defense and international combat operations under the JGSDF's Ground Component Command.
context_section_description: 1st Airborne Brigade paratroopers have only been seen in action through annual new year JSDF exhibition shows in Narashino.
caption: 1st Airborne Brigade paratroopers fast rope from a Kawasaki CH-47 chopper during a public exhibition at Camp Narashino.
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