A U.S. Marine with Battalion Landing Team (BLT) 1st

A U.S. Marine with Battalion Landing Team (BLT) 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), promotes Cpl. Briar Crocker, BLT 1/6 machine gunner and native of Byfield, Mass., to his current rank aboard the amphibious transport dock ship USS Mesa Verde (LPD 19). The 22nd MEU is deployed with the Bataan Amphibious Ready Group as a theater reserve and crisis response force throughout U.S. Central Command and the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Staff Sgt. Lukas Atwell /Released)