The joint is made up of three bones: the femur (thigh bone), the tibia (shin bone), and the patella (knee cap). The surfaces of these bones within the joint are covered with a layer of cartilage. This important surface allows the bones to smoothly glide against each other without causing damage to the bone.
Pyeongtaek: A US base, Americana in rural South Korea. As it gears up to host a huge US overseas base, the city is a window on to fraught relations between locals and troops. A commercial street near Camp Humphreys base in Pyeongtaek. [Steven Borowiec/Al Jazeera] Pyeongtaek, South Korea - The commercial area adjacent to the main entrance of the United States' Camp Humphreys military base, is a slice of Americana in the Korean countryside. Most of the signs are in English, the streets are lined with fast-food restaurants, and the street stalls sell french fries and chicken wings beside Korean staples such as blood sausage and rice cakes in red pepper sauce.
Camp Foster is one of the wide variety of military facilities operated by the United States of America in Japan. The base is under the jurisdiction of the United States Marine Corps. It is a co-base, therefore it is run under the ...Camp Fuji Marine Corps in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. Shizuoka Prefecture, US Military Bases in Japan. Camp Fuji is part of a larger United States military installation in the central eastern Japanese prefecture of Shizuoka.amp Courtney is one of the few military facilities operated by the Marine Corps in Japan. The base is located in the Okinawa province â more precisely, in Uruma City. It is one of the youngest cities of Japan. It was formed in ...