U.S. Marine Corps Lt. Gen. John Wissler, the commanding general of III Marine Expeditionary Force (MEF), and Japanese officials board an MV-22B Osprey tiltrotor aircraft attached to Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 265, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, III MEF, assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit on the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) helicopter destroyer JDS Ise (DDH 182) to return to Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, Japan, Nov. 12, 2013. It was the first time an Osprey landed on a JMSDF ship in the Asia-Pacific region.