31st MEU, CLB-31 Marines play baseball with Tinian locals [Image 10 of 24]

TINIAN, NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS

11.09.2018

Photo by Lance Cpl. Hannah Hall 

31st Marine Expeditionary Unit       

Petty Officer 2nd Class Anthony Delsalvo, a builder construction man with Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 1, prepares to hit a ball at a community relations baseball event during U.S. Defense Support of Civil Authorities relief efforts on Tinian, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Nov. 9, 2018. Delsalvo, a native of Savona, N.Y., graduated from Campbell High School in June 2008 before enlisting the next month. Businesses, government buildings, homes and schools were heavily damaged by Super Typhoon Yutu, which made a direct hit with devastating effect on Tinian Oct. 25 as the second-strongest storm to ever hit U.S. soil. Marines with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit and Combat Logistics Battalion 31 arrived on Tinian Oct. 29-31 in the wake of Super Typhoon Yutu as part of Task Force-West. TF-W is providing U.S. Department of Defense support to the CNMI's civil and local officials as part of the FEMA-supported Super Typhoon recovery effort. The 31st MEU, the Marine Corps' only continuously forward-deployed MEU, provides a flexible force ready to perform a wide-range of military operations across the Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Hannah Hall/Released)

• Date Taken: 11.09.2018
• Date Posted: 11.10.2018 07:13
• Photo ID: 4891027
• VIRIN: 181109-M-YY851-507
• Resolution: 5760x3840
• Size: 8.06 MB
• Location: TINIAN, MP