Staff Sergeant Alan Stowers, a military policeman with

Staff Sergeant Alan Stowers, a military policeman with Combat Logistics Battalion 31, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, and a native of Garber, Okla., checks the identification of a simulated American citizen during a Non-combatant Evacuation Operation exercise at the Jungle Warfare Training Center, here, Jan 30. The training event involved evacuating simulated American citizens from a foreign nation. This type of mission can be triggered by hostile forces overthrowing a local government, an embassy being overrun, or a natural disaster. The 31st MEU is the Marine Corps’ force in readiness for the Asia-Pacific region and is the only continuously forward-deployed MEU.