HF21: Helicopter Support Team [Image 1 of 22]

OKINAWA, JAPAN

02.24.2021

Photo by Warrant Officer John Lamb 

3rd Marine Logistics Group

U.S. Marines with 3d Landing Support Battalion, Combat Logistics Regiment 3 (CLR-3), worked together with Marines from Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 465, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing (1st MAW), to conduct a helicopter support team aerial lift of a U.S. Navy skid steer from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 4 during Hagåtña Fury 21 at Kin Blue, Okinawa, Japan, Feb. 24, 2021. CLR-3 is conducting Hagåtña Fury 21 in concert with elements of 3d Marine Division (MARDIV), 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, and Maritime Prepositioning Squadron 3 in order to build and test a “Fight Now” force capable of providing expeditionary sustainment from key maritime terrain in support of III MEF. During the exercise, CLR-3 is operating with 3D MARDIV and 1st MAW to execute seizure and defense of key maritime terrain and expeditionary advanced base sustainment operations around Okinawa, while simultaneously conducting an MPF offload and distributed command and control from Naval Base Guam. 3d MLG, based out of Okinawa, Japan, is a forward deployed combat unit that serves as III Marine Expeditionary Force’s comprehensive logistics and combat service support backbone for operations throughout the Indo-Pacific area of responsibility. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Warrant Officer John C. Lamb)

• Date Taken: 02.24.2021
• Date Posted: 02.25.2021 06:11
• Photo ID: 6532249
• VIRIN: 210224-M-VK320-1081
• Resolution: 6720x4480
• Size: 3.54 MB
• Location: OKINAWA, JP