A U.S. Marine with Battalion Landing Team (BLT), 3rd
A U.S. Marine with Battalion Landing Team (BLT), 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), touches the Kraken skull before a night boat raid launch aboard dock landing ship USS Ashland (... More
A sailor assigned to forward-deployed amphibious transport
A sailor assigned to forward-deployed amphibious transport dock ship USS Denver (LPD 9) puts a fresh coat of paint on a t-bit post aboard Denver. Denver is on patrol with the Bonhomme Richard Amphibious Ready G... More
A CH-53D Sea Stallion from Marine Heavy Helicopter
A CH-53D Sea Stallion from Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 362, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing (Forward), waits for its crew to arrive for a routine mission on which the aircraft will reach its 10,000th flight hour.... More
U.S. Marines and Vietnamese troops move through the
U.S. Marines and Vietnamese troops move through the grounds of the Imperial Palace in the old citadel area of Hue, Vietnam, Feb. 26, 1968, after seizing it from Communist hands. The heavy damage was the result ... More
A Force Reconnaissance Marine with the 31st Marine
A Force Reconnaissance Marine with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit’s Maritime Raid Force provides rear security during a bottom-up house clearing exercise as part of a close-quarters tactics range on Camp Ha... More
190217-N-DX072-1831 GULF OF THAILAND (Feb. 17, 2019)
190217-N-DX072-1831 GULF OF THAILAND (Feb. 17, 2019) – Engineman 2nd Class Zachery Tinney, from Carlsbad, N.M., fires an M240B machine gun aboard the amphibious transport dock ship USS Green Bay (LPD 20) during... More
A reconnaissance Marine with the 31st Marine Expeditionary
A reconnaissance Marine with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit’s Amphibious Reconnaissance Platoon reloads a pistol magazine during marksmanship training aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Wasp (LHD 1), un... More
190614-N-DX072-1008 CORAL SEA (June 14, 2019) An SH-60S
190614-N-DX072-1008 CORAL SEA (June 14, 2019) An SH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter, assigned to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 25, lands on the flight deck of the amphibious dock landing ship USS Ashland (LSD 48... More
Marines with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit climb
Marines with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit climb ropes at the end of the obstacle course at Camp Hansen, Okinawa, Japan, Dec. 15, 2017. 31st MEU Marines participated in the obstacle course together to boos... More
Marine 2nd Lt. Maxwell Bennett, a Communications Strategy
Marine 2nd Lt. Maxwell Bennett, a Communications Strategy and Operations officer with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, takes a cell phone picture from the vantage point of an Imperial Japanese machine gunner... More
A Force Reconnaissance Marine with the 31st Marine
A Force Reconnaissance Marine with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit’s Maritime Raid Force carries a simulated casualty during a stress shoot as part of a close-quarters tactics range on Camp Hansen, Okinawa, ... More
Marines and Sailors with the 31st Marine Expeditionary
Marines and Sailors with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) celebrate the 122nd birthday of the Hospital Corps on Camp Hansen, Okinawa, Japan, June 17, 2020. The Hospital Corpsman birthday was established... More
A Force Reconnaissance Marine with the 31st Marine
A Force Reconnaissance Marine with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit’s Maritime Raid Force carries ammo cans during a stress shoot as part of a close-quarters tactics range on Camp Hansen, Okinawa, May 14, 202... More
A Force Reconnaissance Marine with the 31st Marine
A Force Reconnaissance Marine with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit’s Maritime Raid Force grabs ammunition prior to a modified qualification as part of a close-quarters tactics range on Camp Hansen, Okinawa, ... More
Force Reconnaissance Marines with the 31st Marine
Force Reconnaissance Marines with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit’s (MEU) Maritime Raid Force clear a stairway during a close-quarters tactics range on Camp Hansen, Okinawa, Japan, May 20, 2020. The 31st MEU... More
ABOARD USS BONHOMME RICHARD (LHD-6), At Sea (Aug. 26,
ABOARD USS BONHOMME RICHARD (LHD-6), At Sea (Aug. 26, 2016) – Col. Tye R. Wallace (left) and Sgt. Maj. Jim Lanham (right), fire M1911 .45-caliber pistols during live-fire training aboard the USS Bonhomme Richar... More
A Force Reconnaissance Marine with the 31st Marine
A Force Reconnaissance Marine with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit’s (MEU) Maritime Raid Force fast ropes into a close-quarters tactics exercise on Camp Hansen, Okinawa, Japan, May 21, 2020. The 31st MEU, th... More
Landing Craft, Air Cushion (LCAC) with Naval Beach
Landing Craft, Air Cushion (LCAC) with Naval Beach Unit 7 move supplies in preparation to board amphibious assault ship USS New Orleans (LPD 18) in the Philippine Sea, Jan. 19. 2021. The 31st MEU is operating a... More
U.S. Marines with Battalion Landing Team, 3rd Battalion,
U.S. Marines with Battalion Landing Team, 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), hold up a formation signal during a debarking rehearsal aboard dock landing ship USS Ashland (LSD 48) ... More
A U.S. Marine MV-22B Osprey tiltrotor aircraft with
A U.S. Marine MV-22B Osprey tiltrotor aircraft with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 262 (Reinforced), 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), prepares to land during a humanitarian assistance rehearsal aboard do... More
Aviation Boatswains Mate (Helicopters) Airman Kevin
Aviation Boatswains Mate (Helicopters) Airman Kevin A. Bourne directs an MH-60S Seahawk attached to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 25, the "Island Knights," after take-off from the flight deck of the amph... More
Landing Craft Utility docks within the well deck of
Landing Craft Utility docks within the well deck of the amphibious assault ship USS Essex. Essex is taking part in a Blue Green exercise with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit.
A UH-1N Huey and an AH-1W Super Cobra assigned to Marine
A UH-1N Huey and an AH-1W Super Cobra assigned to Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 262 (REIN) land on the flight line of the amphibious assault ship USS Essex. HMM-262 is preparing for Philblex 2008.
Marines prep combat rubber rider craft for training exercise
Marine Corps Cpl. Nathan Meier and Sgt. Mark Terrell mount the engine onto a combat rubber rider craft aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Essex. Meier and Terrell are preparing the craft for a training exercise.
Rear Adm. Richard Landolt departs USS Essex on Sea Hawk helicopter
Aviation boatswain's mate (handling) Petty Officer 3rd Class Arata Bernard, an aircraft director, signals the departure of an SH60 Sea Hawk helicopter carrying Rear Adm. Richard Landolt, commander, Amphibious F... More
Marines Conduct IED Training. U.S. Marine expeditionary force
Marines from Truck Platoon, Headquarters and Services Company and Combat Engineer Company, Combat Assault Battalion, 3rd Marine Division, III Marine Expeditionary Force, drag simulated improvised explosive devi... More
USS Harry S. Truman, US Navy Photogrpah
Petty Officer 3rd Class Dustin Green, hull maintenance technician, from Columbus, Ohio, removes weld splatters and other residue from the welding table in the repair shop aboard the aircraft carrier USS Harry S... More
USS Essex, US Navy Photogrpah
Marines assigned to Amphibious Reconnaissance and Force Reconnaissance Platoons of the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, launch a combat rubber reconnaissance craft from the well deck of the forward-deployed amph... More
31st MEU Embarks for Asia-Pacific Region
Tactical vehicles parked in front of Peralta Hall, the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit headquarters building wait to depart enroute to White Beach Naval Facility where they will be loaded onto ships for the 31st... More
USS Green Bay, US Navy Photogrpah
Sailors raise their arms, signifying that they have successfully donned their MCU-2P gas mask during chemical, biological, and radiological training aboard the amphibious transport dock USS Green Bay. The CBR t... More
Marines assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit
Marines assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit fire handguns on the flight deck of the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex. Essex is part of the forward-deployed Essex Amphibious Ready Gr... More
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii - Navy Exchange Fleet Store
A view of the new Navy Exchange Fleet Store at Bravo Piers. (U.S. Navy photo by Denise Emsley)
Airman Recruit Natalie Gonzalez, aviation boatswain's
Airman Recruit Natalie Gonzalez, aviation boatswain's mate (equipment), serves food for a birthday meal in the aft galley aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan. The meal was open to sailors with an Augu... More
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii - Hawaii - Ammunition Offload
An HH-60H Sea Hawk helicopter assigned to the Indians of Helicopter Anti-submarine Squadron 6 airlifts ordnance off the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz during an ammunition offload with the Milit... More
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii - USS George Washington
Petty Officer 3rd Class Kyle Adona, interior communications electrician, from Vallejo, Calif., fires an M-9 pistol during a small-arms live-fire exercise aboard the aircraft carrier USS George Washington. Georg... More
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii - Naval Postgraduate School
Marine Corps Capt. Brandon Newell explains his research in the area of expeditionary energy to faculty, students and staff at the Naval Postgraduate School. NPS provides advanced education and research programs... More
Hawaii - PANFLUEX, US Navy Photogrpah
A sailor assigned to Naval Medical Center Portsmouth receives a dose of FluMist, the nasal influenza vaccination. The medical center is one of two to take part in PANFLUEX, the Chief of Naval Operations' Pandem... More
Clean Air Act Anniversary, Florida
Capt. Jeffrey Maclay, center, commanding officer of Naval Air Station Jacksonville, presents members of the Fleet Readiness Center Southeast Pollution Prevention Team with a letter of commendation on the 40th a... More
Valiant Shield 2010, US Navy Photogrpah
Marines from the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit embarked aboard the amphibious dock landing ship USS Harpers Ferry practice shooting their M-14 carbines and M-16 rifles. Harpers Ferry, part of the permanently f... More
Bronze Star Recipient - Public domain photogrpaph
Rear Adm. Timothy Giardina, deputy commander and chief of staff of U.S. Pacific Fleet, presents the Bronze Star medal to Jayson Fuller, chief intelligence specialist, assigned to Afloat Planning System, Pacific... More
Hawaii - USNS Mercy, US Navy Photogrpah
Personnel from the Naval Supply Systems Command's Fleet and Industrial Supply Center Pearl Harbor load provisions, mail, and critical repair parts aboard the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy. M... More
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii - Salt Lake City Navy Week
Lt. Bashon Mann, assigned to the Navy Office of Community Outreach, reads to children in the after school reading program at the Capital West Boys and Girls Club during Salt Lake City Navy Week, one of 19 Navy ... More
Marines assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit
Marines assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit embarked aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Essex fast rope from a CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter onto the Military Sealift Command dry cargo and ammuniti... More
Marines assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit
Marines assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit prepare for a simulated air raid aboard the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex. Essex is part of the forward-deployed Essex Amphibious Read... More
USS Harpers Ferry action
Marines assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit in a combat rubber reconnaissance craft approach the stern gate of the amphibious dock landing ship USS Harpers Ferry. Harpers Ferry is on patrol in the we... More
31st MEU Fast Ropes Aboard USNS Alan Shepard
Marines of the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2) fast rope from a CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter onto the Military Sealift Command dry cargo/ammunition ship USNS A... More
Comm Marines Keeps 3rd MEB Wired
Lance Cpl. Joshua Daigler, with Radio Data Team, Company B, 7th Communications Battalion, 3rd Marine Expeditionary Brigade test network connections prior to Amphibious Landing Exercise 2011, Oct. 6. Phiblex 201... More
Lance Cpl. Richard Pobocik, from Flint, Mich., assigned
Lance Cpl. Richard Pobocik, from Flint, Mich., assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, loads ammunition rounds for an M-240 machine gun qualification aboard the amphibious transport dock ship USS Denver... More
Seaman Jason S. Ramirez, corpsman, Marine Aircraft
Seaman Jason S. Ramirez, corpsman, Marine Aircraft Group 36, 3d Marine Expeditionary Brigade and Tech. Sgt. Isidro Dadizon, a medical technician for the Philippine Air Force discuss a child's prognosis during t... More
Cpl. Chadrick Green, an electrician with Combat Logistics
Cpl. Chadrick Green, an electrician with Combat Logistics Battalion 31, Marine Expeditionary Unit 31, plays with Jennie Hernadaz, a student with Anastacio EL Dinglas Elementary School) during the Engineer Civil... More
Brig. Gen. Joel C. Marayag, commander, 1st Air Division,
Brig. Gen. Joel C. Marayag, commander, 1st Air Division, Philippine Air Force speaks during the opening ceremony for PHIBLEX 2011 held on Clark Air Base, Pampanga, Republic of the Philippines, Oct. 14, 2010. PH... More
3d MEB Uses Social Media During Phiblex
Locals from the Barangay of San Jose visit the Amphibious Landing Exercise social media web site at a local internet cafe here, Oct. 15. The photographs, videos, and articles published on the site are of servic... More
Marines assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit,
Marines assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, Alpha Company, 2nd Platoon, clean their M-16 rifles in the well deck of the amphibious transport dock ship USS Denver. Denver is part of the permanently f... More
Marines assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit
Marines assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit board the amphibious dock landing ship USS Harpers Ferry to participate in Amphibious Landing Exercise 2011. The annual, bilateral, amphibious-landing trai... More
3d MEB Gets 'likes' on Facebook
A young Filipino child writes down the address to the Amphibious Landing Exercise 2011 Facebook page. The Facebook page was started by the 3d Marine Expeditionary Brigade staff and is being used to spread the w... More
Brig. Gen. Mark A. Brilakis, commanding general, 3d
Brig. Gen. Mark A. Brilakis, commanding general, 3d Marine Expeditionary Brigade, and Brig. Gen. Rustico O. Guerrero, commandant, Philippine Marine Corps, shake hands during the closing ceremony of Amphibious L... More
U.S. military personnel along with their Filipino
U.S. military personnel along with their Filipino counterparts conducted initial bilateral recovery assistance in the areas impacted by Typhoon Juan international name, Megi), Oct. 20-22. During this period, U... More
Phiblex '11 comes to close during ceremony
A bilateral color guard presents the colors during the closing ceremony of Amphibious Landing Exercise 2011 here, Oct. 22. Throughout the exercise, AFP and U.S. personnel conducted different training evolutions... More
USS Essex, US Navy Photogrpah
Lance Cpl. Dylan Beorth, assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, reassembles an M-240 machine gun aboard the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2). Essex is part of the forward-depl... More
USS Essex, US Navy Photogrpah
Lance Cpl. Tristan J. Hunter, assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, watches over Marine equipment in the hangar bay of the forward deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2) before a training ... More
Col. Andrew MacMannis, commanding officer of the 31st
Col. Andrew MacMannis, commanding officer of the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, cuts a cake during a ceremony commemorating the 235th Marine Corps birthday aboard the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship U... More
Vehicles of the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit fill
Vehicles of the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit fill the well deck of the amphibious dock landing ship USS Tortuga . Tortuga is part of the permanently forward-deployed Essex Amphibious Ready Group and is under... More
Landing Craft Utility 1634 transports trucks and armories
Landing Craft Utility 1634 transports trucks and armories assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit to the ships of the Essex Amphibious Ready Group. The 31st MEU and the Essex Amphibious Ready Group are e... More
Vehicles and gear, from the 31st Marine Expeditionary
Vehicles and gear, from the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, III Marine Expeditionary Force, is embarked onto a Landing Craft Utility in preparation for the MEU’s deployment throughout the Asia-Pacific region. T... More
Blue-green team helps landings aboard Essex
A crew member of the USS Essex guides an AV-8B Harrier to its designated space after completing flight operations Feb. 1. The 31st MEU is an ideal example of how the Marine Corps trains and operates as a Marine... More
The Amphibious assault ship USS Essex is underway in
The Amphibious assault ship USS Essex is underway in the western Pacific Ocean with the embarked 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit and Amphibious Squadron 11. Essex is the lead ship of the Essex Amphibious Ready Group.
A Marine with 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion, Ground
A Marine with 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion, Ground Combat Element, 3rd Marine Expeditionary Brigade Forward, III Marine Expeditionary Force, breaks down and stows away his parachute after executing a high-altit... More
Marines assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit
Marines assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit load sea bags into a truck during exercise Cobra Gold 2011. The 31st MEU and the Essex Amphibious Ready Group are participating in Exercise Cobra Gold 2011... More
3rd Reconnaissance Battalion Marines conduct HALO training during Cobr...
A Marine with 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion, Ground Combat Element, 3rd Marine Expeditionary Brigade Forward, III Marine Expeditionary Force, breaks down and stows away his parachute after executing a high-altit... More
USS Germantown activity. Warship photograph collection
A Landing Craft Air Cushion departs USS Germantown's (LSD 42) well deck to deliver vehicles and supplies to Marines from 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU). The 31st MEU, commanded by Col. Andrew MacMannis, i... More
Royal Thai and U.S. Marine aircraft provide air support
Royal Thai and U.S. Marine aircraft provide air support for an amphibious assault raid here Feb. 10, 2011, during Exercise Cobra Gold 2011. Cobra Gold 2011 is a regularly scheduled multinational training exerci... More
Sailors and Marines assigned to the 31st Marine
Sailors and Marines assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit load equipment aboard the amphibious transport dock landing ship USS Germantown. Germantown and the 31st MEU completed exercises as part of Cob... More
Marines with BLT 2/5, 31st MEU, III MEF, practice MCMAP
Marines with BLT 2/5, 31st MEU, III MEF, practice MCMAP techniques with Cambodian service members Feb. 27. The 31st MEU visited and participated in bilateral training as part of the U.S. Pacific Command’s Theat... More
31st MEU rady to provide relief in Japan
Sailors with Amphibious Squadron 11 attach chains to a CH-46E Sea Knight with Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 262 (reinforced), 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, during flight deck operations, March 13. Marines... More
A Sailor signals the Marine pilots of a CH-53E Super
A Sailor signals the Marine pilots of a CH-53E Super Stallion with Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 262 (Reinforced), 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, as it takes off during flight operations March 17. The 31st... More
Marines assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit
Marines assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit load humanitarian assistance supplies onto a CH-46E Sea Knight helicopter on the flight deck of the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex. Ess... More
U.S. Marines and sailors onboard the USS Essex (LHD-2),
U.S. Marines and sailors onboard the USS Essex (LHD-2), wait to load food and water supplies onto a CH-53 Super Stallion helicopter with Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 262 (Reinforced), 31st Marine Expeditio... More
Offloading supplies, US Navy Photogrpah
Sailors and Marines assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, work with Japanese civilians and Japan Ground Self-Defense Force personnel to offload supplies from a landing craft utility during Operation T... More
The USS Essex (LHD 2), with the 31st Marine Expeditionary
The USS Essex (LHD 2), with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit aboard, nears the coast of Japan at sunrise, Mar. 27, 2011. The 31st MEU and Amphibious Squadron 11 delivered food, water, comfort items and commer... More
Meals Ready-to-Eat are moved March 27 to an elementary
Meals Ready-to-Eat are moved March 27 to an elementary school here serving as a shelter for 400 families that were displaced by the March 11 tsunami and earthquake. The MREs were offloaded from two Navy landing... More
Col. Andrew MacMannis (right), 31st Marine Expeditionary
Col. Andrew MacMannis (right), 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit commanding officer, talks with Eija Kimizuka, commander of Joint Task Force-Tohoku, about present operations during Kimizuka’s visit aboard USS Esse... More
Marines assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit
Marines assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit aboard a landing craft utility, depart the amphibious assault ship USS Essex. Essex and the embarked 31st MEU is operating off the coast of Kesennuma in no... More
USS Essex action, US Navy Photogrpah
Landing Craft Utility 1651, assigned to Assault Craft Unit 1, embarked aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Essex offloads the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit Marines and equipments on Oshima Island, Japan. Es... More
Petty Officer 2nd Class Ryan Grubbs, engineman, assigned
Petty Officer 2nd Class Ryan Grubbs, engineman, assigned to Assault Craft Unit 1, directs Landing Craft Utility 1634 as it brings sailors and Marines ashore to help with continuing disaster relief efforts. Mari... More
A Marine with Battalion Landing Team, 2d Battalion,
A Marine with Battalion Landing Team, 2d Battalion, 5th Marines, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, helps a local man remove an unscathed table from a severely damaged house here during Operation Field Day, a debr... More
An MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter assigned to Helicopter
An MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter assigned to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 25 drops off supplies on the flight deck of the amphibious assault ship USS Essex during a vertical replenishment with the Military Seali... More
Heavy equipment operated by a Marine with the 31st
Heavy equipment operated by a Marine with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, carries a destroyed truck to a collection point, where over 100 others rest. As part of Operation Tomodachi, the 31st MEU is ready t... More
Dragons join 31st MEU as air combat element
Two CH-46E Sea Knight helicopters with Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 265 (Reinforced), 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, III Marine Expeditionary Force, taxi across a runway on Marine Corps Air Station Futenm... More
A Marine with Company F communicates with USS Tortuga
A Marine with Company F communicates with USS Tortuga via radio as his boat heads through the surf to White Beach Naval Facility June 28. The Marines and USS Tortuga conducted launch and recovery operations to ... More
31st Marine Expeditionary Unit arrives for Talisman Sabre 2011
Lance Cpl. Don Picha, right, with 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, poses for a picture with a child after letting him try on Marine Corps gear at Exercise Talisman Sabre 2011's opening ceremony at the Rockha... More
31st MEU arrives for Talisman Sabre 2011
Lance Cpl. Don Picha, right, with 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, poses for a picture with a child after letting him try on Marine Corps gear at Exercise Talisman Sabre 2011's opening ceremony at the Rockha... More
U.S. Marine Staff Sgt. Joseph Ross (right) of Albion,
U.S. Marine Staff Sgt. Joseph Ross (right) of Albion, Pa., and Lance Cpl. Christopher Jones, of Chicago, Ill., both military policemen with Combat Logistics Battalion 31, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, follow ... More
Capt. Robert Schwaab, assistant logistics officer,
Capt. Robert Schwaab, assistant logistics officer, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, listens as an Australian Defense Force convoy leader gives a brief during Exercise Talisman Sabre 2011. Schwaab was planning fo... More
U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpls. Stephan A. Fournier,
U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpls. Stephan A. Fournier, left, and Craig J. Reyes, right, both mortarmen with Company G, Battalion Landing Team 2nd Battalion 7th Marine Regiment, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, III M... More
Marines with Company F lay in floor boards on their
Marines with Company F lay in floor boards on their combat rubber raiding craft near Kin Blue Beach July 13.
U.S. Marines and Australian Defence Force personnel
U.S. Marines and Australian Defence Force personnel listen as U.S. Marine Staff Sgt. Thomas A. Salas, right, from Yigo, Guam, a martial arts instructor trainer with Combat Logistics Regiment 37, 3rd Marine Logi... More
Corps’ amphibious roots on display
Amphibious assault has long been a part of Marine Corps tradition, demonstrated first during the landing at New Providence Island, Bahamas, in 1776 and utilized during many major conflicts of World War II and t... More
Three U.S. Navy landing craft, air cushioned, from
Three U.S. Navy landing craft, air cushioned, from the USS Germantown, head toward Freshwater Bay beach in Shoalwater Bay Training Area carrying equipment and personnel during an amphibious assault in support o... More
An amphibious assault vehicle carrying elements of
An amphibious assault vehicle carrying elements of Company G, Battalion Landing Team 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, charges onto Freshwater Beach, Queensland, Australia, in ... More
U.S. and Australian investigative agencies search for
U.S. and Australian investigative agencies search for evidence of a mock mass grave during a stability and support operation July 21, 2011. The SASO operations are part of a scenario-based operation that took p... More