Story by 1st Lt. Demond Glover | 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit | 03.11.2020
Over the course of an hour, a force of over 100 Marines and Thais demonstrated combat breaching of obstacles and indirect fire support for combined arms rehearsals....
Story by Capt. George McArthur | 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit | 09.11.2019
CAMP HANSEN, Okinawa – The 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit and Amphibious Squadron 11 (CPR-11) conducted a series of sequential operations rehearsing naval expeditionary combined-arms maneuver from Wasp Amphibious Ready Group ships to shore in the Philippine and East China Seas and in the vicinity of Okinawa, Japan, August 9-19, 2019....
Story by 2nd Lt. Jonathan Coronel | 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit | 09.11.2019
CAMP HANSEN, Okinawa – U.S. Marines with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit executed a simulated airfield seizure from ships of the Wasp Amphibious Ready Group to Ie Shima Training Facility in order to set conditions to establish a forward arming and refueling point (FARP)....
Story by 2nd Lt. Jonathan Coronel | 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit | 08.07.2019
USS Wasp, At Sea -- F-35B Lightning II fighter aircraft with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 265 (Reinforced), 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, used the GAU-22 cannon against a simulated target and executed the first shipboard hot reload of ordnance in the Indo-Pacific region while underway in the Solomon Sea from the amphibious assault ship USS Wasp (LHD 1), August 4....
Story by Capt. George McArthur | 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit | 07.25.2019
USS Wasp, At Sea – U.S. Marines, Australian Soldiers, and Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Members conducted multi-national simulated amphibious mechanized and direct-action raids in Bowen, Australian as a part of Exercise Talisman Sabre 19, July 22 and 23....
Story by Cpl. Brennan Priest | 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit | 07.25.2019
The 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit patrols the Indo-Pacific region, ready to respond to any threat with swiftness and lethality. As the only continuously forward deployed MEU, they require units that specialize in self-sufficient and rapid deployment. Golf Company, Battalion Landing Team, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines, fills this requirement as the MEU’s amphibious raid company....
Story by Lance Cpl. Dylan Hess | 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit | 07.24.2019
Battalion Landing Team, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines, is comprised of various units, task organized to accomplish the different missions the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit is expected to be prepared for. One of the most versatile and dynamic capabilities that 2/1 offers would be the ability to vertically envelop the enemy and conduct offensive operations to seize, occupy and defend an objective.......
Story by Cpl. Samantha Villarreal | 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit | 04.30.2016
The first earthquake struck the southwestern Japanese island of Kyushu, April 15. For nine more days, aftershocks rumbled on. The largest, a 7.3 magnitude earthquake April 17, prompted Japan to ask the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit for help....
