Petty Officer 3rd Class Tonye Peters (right), a hospital corpsman with Alpha Company, Battalion Landing Team, 1st Battalion, 4th Marines, supervises Lance Cpl. Juan Rodriguez (left), a rifleman with Alpha Company, Battalion Landing Team, 1st Battalion, 4th Marines, during a Combat Life Savers Course aboard dock landing ship USS Ashland (LSD 48), East China Sea, Feb. 13, 2019. Peters, a native of Auburn, Alabama, graduated from Auburn High School in May of 2015 before enlisting in July of the same year. Rodriguez, a native of Alamo, Texas, graduated from Pharr-San Juan-Alamo Memorial High School in May 2016 before enlisting in January 2017. Alpha Company Marines are the small boat raid specialists for BLT 1/4, the Ground Combat Element for the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit. CLB-31 provides security, logistics, and transportation as the Logistics Combat Element for the 31st MEU. The 31st MEU, the Marine Corps’ only continuously forward-deployed MEU partnering with the Wasp Amphibious Ready Group, provides a flexible and lethal force ready to perform a wide range of military operations as the premier crisis response force in the Indo-Pacific region. (Official Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Mackenzie Carter/Released)