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 Capt. George McArthur | 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit | 01.31.2020
KIRISHIMA TRAINING AREA, Japan – The bilateral U.S.-Japan training Exercise Forest Light Western Army has concluded with a closing ceremony here, Jan. 30....
Story by Lance Cpl. Kolby Leger | 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit | 01.19.2020
CAMP HANSEN, Okinawa - Marine Expeditionary Unit Exercise, known as MEUEX, is designed to incorporate all the components of the 31st MEU – now Battalion Landing Team, 1st Battalion, 5th Marines; Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 265 (Reinforced); Combat Logistics Battalion 31; and the 31st MEU Command Element – into a fully-capable operational team. After completing the exercise in......
Story by Capt. George McArthur | 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit | 01.17.2020
KUMAMOTO, Japan – More than 145 Okinawa-based U.S. Marines with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit will join around 500 Japan Ground Self-Defense Force service members, for bilateral training exercise Forest Light Western Army Jan. 18 – 31, 2020, in Kyushu, Japan....
Story by Capt. George McArthur | 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit | 01.15.2020
The 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit is conducting a series of training events both on and off base in Oahu, Hawaii, Jan. 6-31, 2020....
Story by 1st Lt. Demond Glover | 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit | 12.13.2019
U.S. Marines and Sailors with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit’s Combat Logistics Battalion 31 returned to Okinawa after conducting a combat logistics training exercise in Tinian, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, December 9-13, 2019....
Story by Lance Cpl. Joshua Sechser | 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit | 12.10.2019
CAMP HANSEN, Okinawa (December 10, 2019) – Retired Sgt. Maj. John Canley, Medal of Honor recipient, spoke to Marines and Sailors of the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit and the III Marine Expeditionary Force on Camp Hansen, Okinawa, Japan last week. Gathered units attended the event as a professional military education event to further learn how to excel as warfighters....
Story by 2nd Lt. Jonathan Coronel | 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit | 11.08.2019
Camp Hansen, Okinawa (October 30, 2019) – The 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit completed a “no-notice” embassy reinforcement and Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear (CBRN) exercise October 31, in response to a crisis action drill initiated by MARFORPAC. 31st MEU forces demonstrated rapid planning, long-range insertion, execution, and retrograde in under 72 hours from receipt of the......
