Story by Cpl. Henry Antenor | 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit | 11.10.2014
Sergeant Jacob Fernandez, like everybody else in his unit, wanted to go home after six months in the Asia-Pacific region, but first he had to battle it out amongst hundreds of Marines in a fierce competition where the stakes were set extremely high....
Story by 1st Lt. George McArthur | 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit | 10.23.2014
U.S. Marine Corps 1st Lt. Sy Poggemeyer knew how to get around an amphibious assault ship at the age of four.
Courtesy Story | USS Peleliu (LHA 5) | 10.10.2014
Sailors and Marines from the Peleliu Expeditionary Strike Group (PEL ESG) completed the 31st iteration of Amphibious Landing Exercise (PHIBLEX) Friday, Oct. 10....
Story by Staff Sgt. Joseph DiGirolamo | 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit | 09.11.2014
It was the first day of liberty port in Darwin, Australia and Staff Sgt. James Roberts was enjoying a cold beverage at a local pub with his buddies. Suddenly, several shore-patrol Marines burst in frantically yelling to the service members inside to “Get out, get out… get back on ship… report to the ship!”...
Courtesy Story | USS Peleliu (LHA 5) | 08.30.2014
USS Peleliu (LHA 5) departed Friday, August 29, to lead the Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) on patrol in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of responsibility....
Story by Whitney Katz | Joint Enabling Capabilities Command | 08.18.2014
From June 26 – Aug. 1, members of the Joint Enabling Capabilities Command’s (JECC) Joint Communications Support Element (JCSE) and Joint Public Affairs Support Element (JPASE) participated in U.S. Pacific Fleet’s Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2014, a multinational maritime exercise held every two years in and around the Hawaiian Islands. This was the 24th iteration of RIMPAC, which......
Courtesy Story | USS Peleliu (LHA 5) | 06.26.2014
Midshipmen embarked the amphibious assault ship USS Peleliu (LHA 5) to conduct their Midshipmen summer cruise training June 17 through Aug. 1....
Courtesy Story | USS Peleliu (LHA 5) | 06.25.2014
As 40 international ships and submarines transited toward Hawaii to participate in exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2014, the amphibious assault ship USS Peleliu (LHA 5) hosted two cyber security experiments as part of Trident Warrior 2014 (TW14)....
