Marines with Echo Battery, Battalion Landing Team, 1st Battalion, 4th Marines, stand in formation during a Change of Command ceremony at Camp Hansen, Okinawa, Japan, April 12, 2019. During the ceremony, Capt. Michael Bruce relinquished command to 1st Lt. Jessi Wieck – the battery is currently forward-deployed to Okinawa as the artillery support for BLT 1/4, the Ground Combat Element for the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit. Wieck, the first female to command a Marine artillery battery, is a native of Brooklyn, Iowa – she commissioned in January 2016 after graduating from University of Iowa in Iowa City. Bruce, a native of North Reading, Massachusetts, commissioned in 2010 after graduating from Northeastern University in Boston. 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 premier crisis response force in the Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Gunnery Sgt. T. T. Parish/Released)
Date Taken: | 04.12.2019 |
Date Posted: | 04.12.2019 13:30 |
Photo ID: | 5260413 |
VIRIN: | 190412-M-PJ332-144 |
Resolution: | 2134x1423 |
Size: | 1.33 MB |
Location: | CAMP HANSEN, OKINAWA, JP |
Hometown: | BROOKLYN, IA, US |
Hometown: | READING, MA, US |
Web Views: | 18 |
Downloads: | 6 |
This work, Echo Battery changes hands during forward-deployed change of command [Image 11 of 11], by T. T. Parish, identified by DVIDS, must comply with the restrictions shown on https://www.dvidshub.net/about/copyright.
LEAVE A COMMENT