Marine Corps Base Camp Smedley D. Butler

This article is about a U.S. Marine Corps base. For other uses, see Camp Butler (disambiguation).

Marine Corps Base Camp Smedley D. Butler (or Butler Marine Base to natives) is a United States Marine Corps base located in the Japanese prefecture of Okinawa. It was named for legendary Marine Smedley D. Butler.

Installations

Camp Smedley D. Butler is actually a collection of facilities and satellite installations spread throughout Okinawa. Camp Smedley D. Butler was formerly called Camp or Fort Buckner, named for Army General Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr., who commanded ground forces in the invasion of Okinawa and was killed in the last days of the battle. The renaming of Buckner to Butler occurred after most US Army troops left Okinawa, and the base was transferred to the USMC.

Camp	Location
Camp Gonsalves	Kunigami and Higashi
Camp Schwab	Nago
Camp Hansen	Kin
Camp McTureous	Uruma
Camp Courtney	Uruma
White Beach	Uruma
Camp Shields	Okinawa City
Camp Foster, formerly Camp Zukeran (1980)	Ginowan
Camp Lester, formerly Camp Kuwae (1980)	Chatan
Camp Kinser	Urasoe

Additionally, Marine Corps Air Station Futenma (including satellite Yomitan Auxiliary Airfield) and Marine Wing Liaison Kadena, while not part of the Camp Bulter complex, shares many resources with it. Other Marine installations in Japan include Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni and Camp Fuji.

See also

• United States Forces Japan

External links and references

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Marine Corps Base Camp Smedley D. Butler.

• Butler's web site
• Camp S D Butler, GlobalSecurity.org

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