Posts tagged ‘31st Marine Expeditionary Unit’
FRIDAY FOTO (August 12, 2022)
SPLASHING ABOARD.
(U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sergeant Danny Gonzalez) Please click on photo to see larger image.
Marines with Battalion Landing Team 2/5, of the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, throw and receive lines from sailors assigned to the amphibious warship USS New Orleans in the Philippine Sea, August 1, 2022.
These Marines, from Fox Company of the 2nd Battalion of the 5th Marine Regiment were conducting welldeck operations training at night. The well deck is a hangar-like deck located at the waterline at the rear (stern) of some amphibious warfare ships. By taking on water the ship can lower its stern, flooding the well deck and allowing boats, amphibious vehicles and landing craft to dock within the ship
The 31st MEU is operating aboard ships of the USS Tripoli Amphibious Ready Group in the 7th Fleet area of operations — the Indo-Pacific region.
The USS New Orleans is an amphibious transport dock ship (LPD 18). An
FRIDAY FOTO (March 19, 2021)
The Color of Water.
(U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sergeant Danny Gonzalez) CLICK on photo to enlarge.
U.S. Marines with 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), and Navy Sailors navigate a combat rubber raiding craft after launching from the Whidbey Island-class dock landing ship USS Ashland, during an exercise in the Philippine Sea on February 24, 2021.
The 31st MEU is operating aboard the ships of Amphibious Squadron 11 in the 7th Fleet area of operations to enhance interoperability with ally and partner militaries in the Indo-Pacific Region.
ASIA/PACIFIC: U.S. Marines at Australian Exercise.
The Marines Have Landed …
(U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Sarah Myers)
U.S. Marines maneuver combat rubber raiding craft toward Cowley Beach in Australia on July 8, 2017, during an amphibious raid rehearsal as a part of exercise Talisman Saber 17. These Marines are assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU).
… and Landed.
(U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Sarah Myers)
Here Marines are disembarking from a CH-53 Super Stallion helicopter for a ground assault training exercise as part of Talisman Saber 17 in Australia on July 12, 2017. More than 33,000 U.S. and Australian personnel are participating in the biennial joint exercise, which runs through July 25.
Talisman Saber, jointly sponsored by the U.S. Pacific Command and Australian Defence Force Headquarters Joint Operations Command, incorporates U.S. Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force and the Australian Defence Force, as well as other government agencies from both countries, according to Pacific Command.
Featuring 21 ships, including the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76), the Bonhomme Richard Expeditionary Strike Group, and more than 200 joint aircraft, this is the seventh iteration of the exercise. For 2017 it is focusing on training a Combined Task Force of U.S. and Australian forces in a mid-intensity, high-end warfighting scenario.
FRIDAY FOTO (September 2, 2016)
Night Raid.
U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Patrick Dionne
Marines depart the well deck of the amphibious transport dock ship USS Green Bay in a combat rubber raiding craft in the Pacific Ocean. The Green Bay is operating in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region. The Marines are assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit.
FRIDAY FOTO (August 23, 2013)
Point of Departure
U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Joseph Scanlan
Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Pablo Ruiz, a rifleman serving with the 2nd Battalion of the 5th Marine Regiment, fires an AT-4 light anti-armor weapon on Range 800 at Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base in California.
Ruiz’ unit, Echo Company, conducted day and night platoon attacks reinforced by a combined anti-armor team, mortar fire and machine gun fire as one of their last training exercises before deploying in support of the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit.
The 31st MEU is capable of conducting limited contingency operations, amphibious operations and crisis response in the Asia-Pacific region.
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