Marines with Bravo Company, Battalion Landing Team,

Marines with Bravo Company, Battalion Landing Team, 1st Battalion, 5th Marines, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, rest during a hike after a simulated airfield seizure at Ie Shima Training Facility, Okinawa, Japan, Dec. 12, 2019. The MEU is currently preparing for deployment through MEU Exercise, a two-week evolution that prepares the Marine Air-Ground Task Force for amphibious operations from Naval vessels. 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 primary crisis response force in the Indo-Pacific region. (Official Marine Corps photo by Sgt Audrey M. C. Rampton)