19 April 2018 3-D Printer-capable Marines with 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit Print Replacement Part for F-35B AT SEA, USS WASP, Pacific Ocean -- Marines with Combat Logistic Battalion (CBL) 31, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), are now capable of ‘additive manufacturing,’ also known as 3-D printing.This innovative technique is the process of replicating a digital 3-D model in the real world. 3-D...
18 September 2017 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit Marines Back to Sea after Training in Guam NAVAL BASE GUAM, Guam -- Marines with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit aboard the USS Ashland (LSD 48) pushed back out to sea after unit-level training in Guam as part of a regularly-scheduled deployment across the Indo-Asia-Pacific region.While the Sailors aboard the Ashland conducted routine...
25 July 2017 Talisman Saber a Success; 31st MEU Marines Re-embark Aboard Bonhomme Richard Expeditionary Strike Group BRISBANE, Australia -- Marines and Sailors with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit completed the biennial Exercise Talisman Saber, re-embarking aboard the U.S. Navy ships of the USS Bonhomme Richard Expeditionary Strike Group off the coast of Queensland, Australia, July 23-25, 2017.The Marines and...
28 August 2017 USS Bonhomme Richard Arrive in Melbourne for the First U.S. Navy Port Call in Years MELBOURNE, VIC, AUSTRALIA -- Marines and Sailors with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit aboard the USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) arrived for a port visit in Melbourne, Australia, Aug. 28, 2017.The Melbourne port visit, the first for a U.S. Navy vessel since 2008 according to the U.S. Department of...
05 July 2018 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit Completes MEU Exercise CAMP HANSEN, OKINAWA, Japan -- The 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) completed the first in a series of pre-deployment training events at Camp Hansen, Okinawa, Japan, June 28, 2018.The first step for the 31st MEU to prepare for an upcoming patrol of the Indo-Pacific region is Marine Expeditionary...
21 May 2018 "Retreat, Hell!" Marines land in Okinawa CAMP HANSEN, Okinawa, Japan -- The Marines and Sailors of 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, joined the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) in Okinawa, Japan, May 21, 2018. This is the second time that the battalion has been the Ground Combat Element (GCE) of the 31st MEU within the last two...
01 November 2018 31st MEU Takes the Lead of Joint-service Task Force in Response to Super Typhoon Yutu TINIAN, COMMONWEALTH OF THE NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS -- More than 150 U.S. service members arrived on the typhoon ravaged island of Tinian Oct. 29-31 in the wake of Super Typhoon Yutu, led by the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit Commander and Combat Logistics Battalion 31.Taking shelter at the...
11 February 2019 Marine F-35B Lightning II Fighters Strike with Externally-mounted Ordnance at Sea for the First Time ...
11 June 2018 Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade Sets Sail CAMP AINOURA, SASEBO, JAPAN -– Marines and Sailors with Combat Logistics Battalion 31, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), and Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) service members completed training with the newly formed JGSDF Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade (ARDB) in Sasebo, Japan, May 24,...
28 September 2018 Wasp ARG, 31st MEU Conduct Defense of the Amphibious Task Force Drill in the South China Sea SOUTH CHINA SEA -- USS Wasp Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) with embarked 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) conducted an integrated Defense of the Amphibious Task Force (DATF) drill at sea Sept. 27.DATF scenarios focus Navy and Marine Corps forces on defending ARG shipping and the drills allowed the...