March 24, 2012 — The 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit is capable of responding to any contingency that presents itself in the Asia-Pacific region. There are many driving factors that ensure the MEU maintains that capability, but one of the largest may be one of the least recognized. The Marines of the Command Element’s administration section work more than 17 hours MORE
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March 22, 2012 — Forty-eight years after joining the ranks of Marine Corps rotary aircraft, the CH-46E Sea Knight helicopter continues a long tradition of reliability and resilience as the work horse of the Marine Air Ground Task Force. Aircraft 12, one of the dozen CH-46E Sea Knight helicopters operated by Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 265 (Reinforced), 31st MORE
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March 21, 2012 — The ability to look at problems in a different way, and then solve them when no one else could is what earned him the nickname, “Rain Man.” Named after the title character of the 1988 movie for his brilliance in solving technical issues, Sgt. Collin J. Walter, a data network specialist with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, helps keep his unit MORE
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March 21, 2012 — Every Marine and Sailor aboard the USS Essex (LHD 2) serves a crucial role in the success of the mission, but Lance Cpl. Samantha A. Sabalboro serves two. Sabalboro, an airframe mechanic with Marine Attack Squadron 311, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, was assigned to assist the Master at Arms in maintaining safety and good order for the more than MORE
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March 17, 2012 — Marines with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit tactically executed a boat raid, successfully completing the MEU’s certification exercise prior to continuing their deployment in the Asia-Pacific region. In the dark hours of the morning at White Beach Naval Base, the Marines of Company A., Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 4th Marines, 31st MORE
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March 17, 2012 — Fighting the weather and ever changing schedules, the Marines and Sailors of the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit successfully completed the Certification Exercise, March 17. The 31st MEU conducted a small boat raid, noncombatant evacuation operation, humanitarian aid and disaster relief operation, helicopter raid, a vessel visit, board, search and MORE
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March 16, 2012 — When an allied nation identified an insurgent stronghold within one of their communities, they called on the expeditionary capabilities of the Marines to rectify the situation. This was the scenario for Company C, Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 4th Marines, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, during a helicopter raid here, conducted for the MORE
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March 15, 2012 — Preparations began just days before the first long range raid the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit conducted during this deployment. The raid force itself was ready to go as soon as the order was given, and there was something new about this raid the 31st MEU had not done in recent memory. The 31st MEU’s commanders, who were aboard the USS Essex (LHD MORE
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March 13, 2012 — Looking down the electronic optics on his rifle, yet keenly aware of the sights and sounds surrounding him, the Marine moved with the rest of his squad like a wolf in a pack across the deck of the ship. Swiftly infiltrating the confines of the ship, the Marine force detained all hostile suspects that had stolen away onto a civilian vessel.No lives MORE
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March 13, 2012 — One year ago on March 11, an undersea earthquake rocked the eastern coast of Japan, its 9.0 magnitude making it one of the five most powerful earthquakes in the world since 1900. Just 70 kilometers off the coast of Tohoku, the quake triggered a violent tsunami which damaged more than one hundred thousand buildings, killed or injured tens of MORE
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