Audio by Cpl. Troy Saunders | Defense Media Activity - Marines | 09.14.2018
I'm Corporal Troy Saunders with your Marine Minute. Part 1: Marines with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit are currently assisting in disaster relief efforts in the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam in the wake of Typhoon Mangkhut. The 31st MEU is the Corps’ only continuously forward-deployed MEU, providing a flexible force ready to perform a wide-range of military and humanitarian......
Audio by Cpl. Troy Saunders | Defense Media Activity - Marines | 09.07.2018
I'm Corporal Troy Saunders with your Marine Minute. U.S. Marines with Black Sea Rotational Force 18.1, along with service members from ten allied and partnered nations, kicked off Exercise Agile Spirit 18 with an opening ceremony in the country of Georgia, September 1st. Agile Spirit is an annual exercise that ensures the readiness, agility, and lethality of coalition forces, in......
Courtesy Audio | Task Force 51/5th Marine Expeditionary Brigade | 09.18.2017
U.S. Marine Col. Howard Hall, TF51/5 operations director, provides an overview of Naval Amphibious Force, TF51/5th Marine Expeditionary Brigade's two-week combat rehearsal, launched from international waters off the coast of Djibouti and executed on land in the vicinity of Arta Beach. Alligator Dagger is the largest regional amphibious combat rehearsal to integrate and synchronize TF......
Audio by Cpl. John Baker | Task Force 51/5th Marine Expeditionary Brigade | 07.01.2015
U.S. Marine Capt. Joe Moeller, company commander of the security force aboard Al Taqaddum Air Base, Iraq, describes his unit's insertion, and the mission to secure coalition forces at the base. The security force company is from 3rd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, part of Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force-Crisis Response-Central Command, which is a unit designed to nimbly respond to......