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JAPAN (April 15, 2025) — U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Brian Goetz, an infantry Marine with Charlie Company, Battalion Landing Team 1/7, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, posts security with an M4 carbine during a jungle field exercise on Camp Hansen, Okinawa, Japan, April 15, 2025. The purpose of the field exercise was to create a challenging, realistic training environment that produces combat-ready forces in a jungle environment. The 31st MEU, the Marine Corps’ only continuously forward-deployed MEU, provides a flexible and lethal force, ready to perform a wide range of military operations as the premiere crisis response force in the Indo-Pacific region. Goetz is a native of Texas. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Angel Diaz Montes De Oca)