Videos

A video highlighting the capabilities of Maritime Raid Force with 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, in the Indo-Pacific, May, 25, 2025. The MRF reports directly to the MEU commander, acting as the eyes, ears and trigger finger in the battlespace, facilitating a wide array of operations and mission sets. The 31st MEU is operating aboard ships of the USS America Amphibious Ready Group in the 7th Fleet area of operations, the U.S. Navy’s largest forward-deployed numbered fleet, and routinely interacts and operates with allies and partners in preserving a free and open Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Alora Finigan)

U.S. Marines with Battalion Landing Team 1/5, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), jump from a CH-53E Super Stallion during a helocast at Kin Blue, Okinawa, Japan, Feb. 16, 2022. The 31st MEU is operating aboard the ships of the America Expeditionary Strike Group in the 7th fleet area of operations to enhance interoperability with allies and partners and serve as a ready response force to defend peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific Region. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Danny Gonzalez)

Marines with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit's Maritime Raid Force perform Helocast training at Kin Blue Beach, Okinawa, Japan, July 31, 2018. During Helocast, a Combat Rubber Raiding Craft is launched from the rear of a rotary-wing aircraft, followed by Marines and Sailors who jump from the aircraft and board the CRRC to perform amphibious reconnaissance missions. The 31st MEU, the Marine Corps’ only continuously forward-deployed MEU, provides a flexible force ready to perform a wide range of military operations (U.S Marine Corps Motion Imagery by Lance Cpl. Angelo Garavito)

Royal Thai, Republic of Korea and U.S. Marines helocast from an MV-22B Osprey Feb. 10, 2016 during Cobra Gold 16 in Thailand. This was one of the first times an Osprey has conducted helocasting. CG16 increases cooperation, interoperability and collaboration among partner nations in order to achieve effective solutions to common challenges