19 April 2019 Japan Ground Self-Defense Force, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit gets reps in coordinating supporting arms fires OKINAWA, JAPAN - “As allies, it’s vital that we know how to work together,” says Cpl. Joseph Roche, a joint fires observer with Alpha Company, Battalion Landing Team, 1st Battalion, 4th Marines. Roche, along with other individuals with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, spent the week conducting...
29 April 2019 Can You Hear Me Now? 31st MEU Comm. Marines Connect Marines, Enable Crisis-response Force OKINAWA, Japan -- During Spring Patrol 2019, the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit completed a first in its 50 year history: split operations spanning a vast swath of the Indo-Pacific region. Marines and Sailors dispersed across thousands of miles of open ocean completed a series of complex amphibious...
25 July 2019 U.S. Marines Complete Simulated Combined Amphibious Assault, Reconnaissance Raid in Bowen, Australia BOWEN, QLD, Australia (USS Wasp, At Sea) -- U.S. Marines, Australian Soldiers, and Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Members conducted multi-national simulated amphibious mechanized and direct-action raids in Bowen, Australian as a part of Exercise Talisman Sabre 19, July 22 and 23.Assault amphibious...
11 September 2019 31st MEU Completes MAGTF-level Sequential Islands-seizure Rehearsal from Amphibious Shipping CAMP HANSEN, Okinawa -- The 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit and Amphibious Squadron 11 (CPR-11) conducted a series of sequential operations rehearsing naval expeditionary combined-arms maneuver from Wasp Amphibious Ready Group ships to shore in the Philippine and East China Seas and in the vicinity...
31 January 2020 U.S. Marines, Japan Ground Self-Defense Force complete Exercise Forest Light Western Army KIRISHIMA TRAINING AREA, Japan -- The bilateral U.S.-Japan training Exercise Forest Light Western Army has concluded with a closing ceremony here, Jan. 30.More than 145 Okinawa-based U.S. Marines and a division of four MV-22B Osprey tiltrotor aircraft with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit joined...
13 November 2019 MARFORPAC Initiates Simulated Crisis Action Drill: 31st MEU Rapidly Responds CAMP HANSEN, Okinawa -- The 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) completed a “no-notice” embassy reinforcement and Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear (CBRN) exercise October 31, in response to a crisis action drill initiated by Marine Corps Force, Pacific (MARFORPAC). 31st MEU forces...
21 January 2020 U.S. Marines, Japan Ground Self-Defense Force begin Exercise Forest Light Western Army KUMAMOTO, KUMAMOTO, Japan -- More than 145 Okinawa-based U.S. Marines with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit will join around 500 Japan Ground Self-Defense Force service members, for bilateral training exercise Forest Light Western Army Jan. 18 – 31, 2020, in Kyushu, Japan.The exercise will consist...
10 February 2020 Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade Embarks for the First Time with America ESG, 31st MEU PHILIPPINE SEA -- The embarked forces conducted boat raid scenarios over a few weeks’ time to improve tactics and techniques between Marines of the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) and the soldiers of Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade (ARDB) boat platoon, in coordination with the Whidbey...
22 July 2019 Law Enforcement Detachment Provides Versatility, Realistic Training to 31st MEU CORAL SEA, QLD, Australia -- From reinforcing an embassy besieged by hostile rioters to subduing an aggressive detainee, it is critical to have non-lethal means of dealing with the contingencies that the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit could face while embarked on the USS Wasp (LHD 1) as part of...
30 September 2019 Odyssey Company: Paving the Way for Combat Logistics CAMP HANSEN, OKINAWA, Japan -- “We should take pride in our force and recent operational successes,” General David H. Berger, 38th Commandant of the Marine Corps, wrote recently in his planning guidance, “But the current force is not organized, trained, or equipped to support the naval force –...