U.S. Air Force Capt. Tyler Harrris, an executive officer with the 373th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Group from Misawa Air Base, and a Woods Cross, Utah-native, speaks with Japanese Self-Defense Force Col. Takeshi Hirano, 26th Regiment commander, in a tsunami-stricken area here in Iwate Prefecture, Japan to support Operation Tomodachi March 29. More than 1,500 volunteers have worked nearly 17,000 hours providing clean-up efforts in the Japanese community since the devastating earthquake and tsunami March 11.