31st MEU Marines, Sailors step-it-out during command hike [Image 4 of 15]

CAMP HANSEN, OKINAWA, JAPAN

02.15.2019

Photo by Gunnery Sgt. T. T. Parish 

31st Marine Expeditionary Unit       

Shadows play across a building’s wall at Camp Hansen as Marines and Sailors march in formation during a conditioning hike in Okinawa, Japan, Feb. 15, 2019. Military Working Dogs and their MWD handlers, vital team members during nearly all Marine Corps training and operations. Marines and Sailors with the 31st MEU’s Command Element, the aptly named command and control element for the Marine Corps’ only continuously forward-deployed MEU, completed a more than five-kilometer hike to build conditioning and prepare its Marines and Sailors for the rigors of amphibious operations. The 31st MEU, partnering with the Wasp Amphibious Ready Group, 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. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Gunnery Sgt. T. T. Parish/Released)

• Date Taken: 02.15.2019
• Date Posted: 02.15.2019 05:32
• Photo ID: 5108153
• VIRIN: 190215-M-PJ332-082
• Resolution: 1972x1315
• Size: 999.17 KB
• Location: CAMP HANSEN, OKINAWA, JP