Lance Cpl. David Ball, a supply administration and

Lance Cpl. David Ball, a supply administration and operations specialist with Battalion Landing Team, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, negotiates the double bar obstacle during the “Gunsmoke Challenge”, Camp Hansen, Okinawa, Japan, Oct. 29, 2019. The “Gunsmoke Challenge” allowed the Marines of 2/1 to build camaraderie and celebrate the end of a successful deployment. The 31st MEU, the Marine Corps’ only continuously forward-deployed MEU, provides a flexible and lethal force ready to perform a wide range of military operations as the premier crisis response force in the Indo-Pacific region. (Official U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Kevan Dunlop)