U.S. Marine Corps Pfc. Delfonza Bowcut, an artillery cannoneer with Battalion Landing Team 1/4, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, posts security during a chemical response element exercise, on Camp Hansen, Okinawa, Japan, June 21, 2024. CREEX simulates the deployment of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear defense specialists to coordinate with explosive ordnance disposal technicians from Combat Logistics Battalion 31 and a ground support team from BLT 1/4, to conduct reconnaissance, site exploitation, control contamination, and provide technical decontamination. 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. Bowcut is a native of Nevada. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Christopher R. Lape)