Ready to fire: 31st MEU Marines load ordnance on F-35B Lightning II fighter aircraft [Image 4 of 10]

CORAL SEA

06.10.2019

Photo by Lance Cpl. Brennan Priest 

31st Marine Expeditionary Unit       

Ordnance Marines with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 265 (Reinforced) load 25mm semi-armor piercing high explosive incendiary tracer rounds into an F-35B Lightning II fighter aircraft gun pod prior to a Tactical Air Control Party exercise aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Wasp (LHD 1) while underway in the Philippine Sea, June 10, 2019. The 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, 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. (Official U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Brennan Priest)

• Date Taken: 06.10.2019
• Date Posted: 06.22.2019 00:43
• Photo ID: 5490094
• VIRIN: 190610-M-XM144-015
• Resolution: 5667x3778
• Size: 9.36 MB
• Location: CORAL SEA