Video by Lance Cpl. Trevor BishopWilliams | 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit | 10.21.2025
U.S. Marines and a U.S. Army soldier onload Patriot PAC-2 missile cans, aboard a MV-22B Osprey assigned to Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 265 (Rein.), 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, during training operation Swift Dragon, at Kadena Air Force Base, Okinawa, Japan, Oct. 22 2025. Swift Dragon is conducted to increase interoperability between U.S. military branches and to sustain aviation......
Video by Petty Officer 3rd Class Kenneth Melseth and Petty Officer 2nd Class Cole Pursley | USS America (LHA 6) | 06.24.2025
The forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6) and the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit participate in a search and rescue training mission in the Coral Sea, June 25. America, lead ship of the America Amphibious Ready Group, is operating in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations. U.S. 7th Fleet is the U.S. Navy’s largest forward-deployed numbered fleet, and routinely interacts......
Video by Lt. John Stevens | Amphibious Squadron 11 | 02.10.2022
Amphibious Squadron 11 and the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit participated in Exercise Noble Fusion alongside PHIBRON 1, the 11th MEU, Carrier Strike Group 3, and the Japan Self-Defense Force, Feb. 4-7....
Video by Lance Cpl. Colton Nicks | 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit | 08.05.2021
U.S. Marines with Force Reconnaissance Platoon, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), practice recoil management drills utilizing tracers during a deck shoot aboard amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6) in the Solomon Sea on Aug. 5, 2021. The deck shoot consisted of reconnaissance Marines practicing close quarter combat drills and multi target engagements. The 31st MEU is operating......
Video by Cpl. Colton Nicks | 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit | 07.21.2021
U.S. Marines with 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit gets sprayed with oleoresin capsicum (OC) spray during non-lethal weapon training aboard USS America (LHA-6) in the Coral Sea, July 21, 2021. After being sprayed, Marines had to overcome a series of obstacles in order to complete the course. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Colton Nicks)....
Video by Staff Sgt. Albert Carls | 3d Marine Division | 06.03.2021
U.S. Marines with Company B, 3d Assault Amphibian Battalion currently assigned to 4th Marines, 3d Marine Division and Marines with 3d Battalion, 5th Marines currently assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit conduct waterborne operations with Amphibious Assault Vehicles at Camp Schwab, Okinawa, Japan, June 3, 2021. The demanding training package strengthened the capacity to conduct......
Video by Lance Cpl. Kincayd Jackson | 3d Marine Division | 05.24.2021
U.S. Marines with Company B, 3d Assault Amphibian Battalion currently assigned to 4th Marines, 3d Marine Division conduct waterborne operations with Amphibious Assault Vehicles at Camp Schwab, Okinawa, Japan, May 24, 2021. The demanding training package strengthened the capacity to conduct amphibious operations in the Pacific with the reintegration of rugged, tactical ship-to-shore connectors,......
Video by Staff Sgt. Albert Carls | 3d Marine Division | 05.24.2021
U.S. Marines with Company B, 3d Assault Amphibian Battalion currently assigned to 4th Marines, 3d Marine Division conduct waterborne operations with Amphibious Assault Vehicles at Camp Schwab, Okinawa, Japan, May 24, 2021. The demanding training package strengthened the capacity to conduct amphibious operations in the Pacific with the reintegration of rugged, tactical ship-to-shore connectors,......
