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Hotloading AV-8B Harriers

PACIFIC OCEAN – Aviation Ordnance Marines stand by to load laser guided training rounds (LGTR) on AV-8B Harriers aboard the amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6), July 16, 2017. The 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit and America Amphibious Ready Group Team is currently deployed to the 3rd, 5th and 7th fleet areas of responsibility as a crisis response and contingency force. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Jacob Pruitt)

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Hotloading AV-8B Harriers

PACIFIC OCEAN – An AV-8B Harrier assigned to Marine Tiltrotor Squadron 161 (Reinforced) makes an approach for a vertical landing on the flight deck of the amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6) during flight operations. The 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit and America Amphibious Ready Group Team is currently deployed to the 3rd, 5th and 7th fleet areas of responsibility as a crisis response and contingency force. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Jacob Pruitt)

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Hotloading AV-8B Harriers

PACIFIC OCEAN – Aviation Ordnance Marines stand by to load laser guided training rounds (LGTR) on AV-8B Harriers aboard the amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6), July 16, 2017. The 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit and America Amphibious Ready Group Team is currently deployed to the 3rd, 5th and 7th fleet areas of responsibility as a crisis response and contingency force. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Jacob Pruitt)

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Hotloading AV-8B Harriers

PACIFIC OCEAN – Aviation Ordnance Marines with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 161 (Reinforced), secure a laser guided training round (LGTR) onto an AV-8B Harrier aboard amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6), July 16, 2017. The 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit and America Amphibious Ready Group Team is currently deployed to the 3rd, 5th and 7th fleet areas of responsibility as a crisis response and contingency force. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Jacob Pruitt)

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Hotloading AV-8B Harriers

PACIFIC OCEAN – Two AV-8B Harriers fly above the amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA-6), July 15, 2017. The 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit and America Amphibious Ready Group Team is currently deployed to the 3rd, 5th and 7th fleet areas of responsibility as a crisis response and contingency force (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Jacob Pruitt)

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31st MEU conducts Talisman Saber 17

Marines with Lima Company, Battalion Landing Team, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, and Australian Army Soldiers discusses troop movements during an amphibious landing as part of Talisman Saber 17, July 15th, 2017. Talisman Saber is a biennial exercise designed to improve the interoperability between Australian and U.S. forces. The 31st MEU is taking part in Talisman Saber 17 while deployed on its regularly-scheduled patrol of the Indo-Asia-Pacific region. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Jonah Baase/Released)

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31st MEU conducts Talisman Saber 17

Marines with Lima Company, Battalion Landing Team, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, stage Combat Rubber Raiding Crafts off the coast of Australia during an amphibious landing as part of Talisman Saber 17, July 15th, 2017. Talisman Saber is a biennial exercise designed to improve the interoperability between Australian and U.S. forces. The 31st MEU is taking part in Talisman Saber 17 while deployed on its regularly-scheduled patrol of the Indo-Asia-Pacific region. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Jonah Baase/Released)

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31st MEU conducts Talisman Saber 17

Marines with Lima Company, Battalion Landing Team, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, navigate Combat Rubber Raiding Craft off the coast of Australia during an amphibious landing as part of Talisman Saber 17, July 15th, 2017. Talisman Saber is a biennial exercise designed to improve the interoperability between Australian and U.S. forces. The 31st MEU is taking part in Talisman Saber 17 while deployed on its regularly-scheduled patrol of the Indo-Asia-Pacific region. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Jonah Baase/Released)

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USS Green Bay conducts Talisman Saber 17

170712-N-ZL062-199 CORAL SEA (July 12, 2017) A CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter, assigned to Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 265 (Reinforced) and embarked aboard the amphibious assault USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6), offloads Marines, assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), during a ground assault training exercise as a part of Talisman Saber 17. Bonhomme Richard, part of a combined U.S.-Australia-New Zealand expeditionary strike group, is undergoing a series of scenarios that will increase naval proficiencies in operating against blue-water adversarial threats and in its primary mission of launching Marine forces ashore in the littorals. Talisman Saber is a biennial U.S.-Australia bilateral exercise held off the coast of Australia meant to achieve interoperability and strengthen the U.S.-Australia alliance. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Sarah Myers/Released)

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USS Green Bay conducts Talisman Saber 17

170712-N-ZL062-194 CORAL SEA (July 12, 2017) A CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter, assigned to Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 265 (Reinforced) and embarked aboard the amphibious assault USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6), offloads Marines, assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), during a ground assault training exercise as a part of Talisman Saber 17. Bonhomme Richard, part of a combined U.S.-Australia-New Zealand expeditionary strike group, is undergoing a series of scenarios that will increase naval proficiencies in operating against blue-water adversarial threats and in its primary mission of launching Marine forces ashore in the littorals. Talisman Saber is a biennial U.S.-Australia bilateral exercise held off the coast of Australia meant to achieve interoperability and strengthen the U.S.-Australia alliance. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Sarah Myers/Released)

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Okinawa Maintenance Logistics Group Marines Save Life on Mt. Fuji

U.S. Marine Cpls. Otto Thiele (center left), Eric Goodman (center), and Christopher Ehms (far right) and Lance Cpls. Antonio Martinez (far left) and Avelardo Guevera Osuna (center right) came together to assist a local Japanese woman during their hike on Mount Fuji, Japan, July 3, 2017. The woman, Moe Oda, was found lying on the ground, hyperventilating and struggling to breathe when the Marines came to her assistance. Together, they created a makeshift stretcher to carry her down approximately two miles to get to medical assistance. The Marines are with Electronics Maintenance Company, 3d Maintenance Battalion, Combat Logistics Regiment 35, 3d Marine Logistics Group, III Marine Expeditionary Force.

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Marines participate in live-fire weapons training

A U.S. Marine with Marine Wing Support Squadron (MWSS) 171, based out of Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, shoots an M240B machine gun during phase two of Eagle Wrath 2017 at Combined Arms Training Center Camp Fuji, Japan, July, 5, 2017. Phase two consisted of conducting live-fire training exercises to give MWSS-171 the knowledge and confidence to utilize weapons systems effectively in a deployed environment.

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USS Green Bay visits Cairns, Australia

Capt. Nate Moyer, commanding officer of the amphibious transport dock USS Green Bay (LPD 20), and Cmdr. Peter Mellick, from the Royal Australian Navy, discuss ship maneuvers during a sea and anchor detail. Green Bay, part of the Bonhomme Richard Expeditionary Strike Group, is operating in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region to enhance partnerships and be a ready-response force for any type of contingency, June 28, 2017.

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Raider Reconnaissance Operator’s Course trains amphibious warriors of the Pacific

Sgt. Antuan D. Martin, lead instructor of Raider Reconnaissance Operator Course, instructs Marines on amphibious operations during an exercise aboard Marine Corps Training Area Bellows, June 15, 2017. Martin demonstrated how to safely launch and beach their Zodiac inflatable craft with several surf passage exercises.

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RF-A team planning fortifies multinational tactics

U.S. Air Force Maj. Rex Bassett, left, the 51st Fighter Wing (FW) assistant director of operations, explains mission plans to Republic of Korea Air Force Capt. Lee Min Kyu, center, a 20th Tactical Fighter Wing pilot out of Seosan Air Base, Korea, and U.S. Air Force Capt. Ryan Forystek, right, a 35th FW pilot out of Misawa Air Base, Japan, June 12, 2017, at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska. Along with U.S. Marines and Army units, Eielson is working with five other countries during the exercise.

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CJCS in Australia

Marine Corps Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, tours Holsworthy Barracks June 6, 2017.

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The heart of a mission

U.S. Air Force Capt. Ryan Singleton and Capt. Justin Munger, both assigned to 909th Air Refueling Squadron pilots Kadena Air Base, Japan, taxi prior to a sortie in a KC-135T Stratotanker from Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash., May 9, 2017, during NORTHERN EDGE 2017 (NE17), at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska. NE17 is Alaska’s premier joint training exercise designed to practice operations, techniques and procedures as well as enhance interoperability among the services. Thousands of participants from all the services, Airmen, Soldiers, Sailors, Marines and Coast Guardsmen from active duty, Reserve and National Guard units are involved.

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U.S. and ROK Forces Participate in OPRex17

Sailors, attached to Amphibious Construction Battalion 1 and 2, work on connecting Improved Navy Lighterage System Roll-on/Roll-off Discharge Facility to the ramp of USNS Pililaau (T-AKR 304) during Operation Pacific Reach Exercise 2017 (OPRex17), April 9, 2017. OPRex17 is a bilateral training event designed to ensure readiness and sustain the ROK-U.S. Alliance by exercising an Area Distribution Center (ADC), an Air Terminal Supply Point (ATSP), Combined Joint Logistics Over-the-Shore (CLOTS), and the use of rail, inland waterways, and coastal lift operations to validate the operational reach concept.

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First Japanese MV-22 Osprey crew chief

Sgt. 1st Class Midsru Miyazaki, center, coordinates with Marines assigned to Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 204 during a pre-flight brief at Marine Corps Air Station New River, N.C., April 7, 2017. Miyazaki has been training to become the first Japanese MV-22 Osprey crew chief. VMMT-204’s mission is to provide training to Osprey pilots, crew chiefs and units in the use and maintenance of the MV-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft. VMMT-204 is assigned to Marine Aircraft Group 26, 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing.

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US Marines, Sailors work with Sri Lanka Navy, Marine Corps for second time on deployment

Sailors and Marines aboard the amphibious dock landing ship USS Comstock (LSD 45) man the rails as the ship arrives in Colombo, Sri Lanka, to conduct theater security cooperation events with the Sri Lankan Navy and Marine Corps, Mar. 27, 2017. Comstock, part of the Makin Island Amphibious Ready Group, with the embarked 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit, is on a scheduled deployment to the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations.

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