Military professionals put pacific partnerships into practice. The U.S. Marines accomplished precisely that during an inaugural I Marine Expeditionary Force (I MEF) deployment to Southeast Asia this past September. I MEF deployed a new task-organized force known as Marine Rotational Force-Southeast Asia (MRF-SEA). This force combined subject matter experts and enablers and placed them under the command and control of a Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) Command Element.
The first deployment of its kind, MRF-SEA, was led by the 11th MEU Commanding Officer, Colonel Thomas M. Siverts. This mission differed from the common MEU and Special Purpose Marine Air Ground Task Force (SPMAGTF), which typically operates with individual command,...
PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii β Commandant of the Marine Corps, Gen. David H. Berger, and Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps, Sgt. Maj. Troy E. Black, visited the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit aboard Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2) during a scheduled port visit in Pearl Harbor, HI, Feb. 19.
PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii β Commandant of the Marine Corps, Gen. David H. Berger, and Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps, Sgt. Maj. Troy E. Black, visited the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit aboard Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2) during a scheduled port visit in Pearl Harbor, HI, Feb. 19.
This is the story about Sgt. Lucas Arellano, a landing support specialist with CLB-11, 11th MEU, who missed the birth of his son Ares while on deployment. This piece in general goes over the sacrifices he had to make with his family in order to deploy.
