In late December, the citizens of Nago, a town in Okinawa's impoverished rural north, voted by 54% to 46% not to let the American Marine Corps moor a floating helicopterbase off the beach, near its existing Camp Schwab.
The Royal Navy's largest ship, the helicopter carrier HMS Ocean, is moored in the Thames off Greenwich, where it will be a base for helicopter operations and house troops providing security at the Greenwich Park Olympic venue.