Story by 1st Lt. Demond Glover | 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit | 02.09.2020
PHILIPPINE SEA- For the first time, the Japanese Ground Self Defense Force (JGSDF) Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade (ARDB) has attached to the America Expeditionary Strike Group (ESG) and embarked with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) for culminating mission training in the vicinity of Kin Blue Beach, Okinawa, Japan, Feb. 9, 2020....
Story by Petty Officer 2nd Class Kelsey Eades | Commander Task Force 75 | 11.14.2018
TINIAN, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands- Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 1, Detachment Guam, assumed responsibility for ongoing relief efforts on Tinian during a relief-in-place and transfer of authority ceremony with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) Nov. 14....
Story by Petty Officer 2nd Class Joshua Mortensen | Commander, Expeditionary Strike Group 7 | 11.03.2018
USS Ashland (LSD 48) with embarked Combat Logistics Battalion (CLB) 31 arrived in vicinity of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) to provide Department of Defense support to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and civil and local officials as part of the FEMA-supported Typhoon Yutu recovery effort Nov. 3....
Story by Cpl. Stormy Mendez | 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit | 04.19.2018
Marines with Combat Logistic Battalion 31, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, are now capable of ‘additive manufacturing,’ also known as 3-D printing....
Story by Lance Cpl. Breanna Weisenberger | 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit | 03.13.2017
CAMP HANSEN, OKINAWA, Japan—Marines with Combat Logistics Battalion 31, currently embarked aboard the USS Ashland (LSD 48), completed Noncombatant Evacuation Operation (NEO) training as a part of Amphibious Integration Training at Camp Hansen, Okinawa, Japan, March 13, 2017....
Story by Lance Cpl. Breanna Weisenberger | 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit | 01.20.2017
KIN BLUE TRAINING AREA, OKINAWA, Japan – Marines with Combat Logistics Battalion 31, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, practiced water purification and distribution during Marine Expeditionary Unit Exercise at Kin Blue Training Area, Okinawa, Japan, Jan. 19, 2017....
Story by 1st Lt. Karoline Foote | 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit | 03.25.2016
USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) – Behind every operation a military unit conducts, there is a group of people that work behind the scenes to make everything happen. That group makes sure there are vehicles for transportation; water and food for the troops; medical treatment if needed; and ammunition for the operation. In the case of the 31st Marine Expeditionary, that group of people is Combat......
Story by Lance Cpl. Samantha Villarreal | 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit | 12.16.2015
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit,” said Aristotle, an ancient Greek philosopher credited with laying much of the groundwork for Western philosophy....