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. Marine Corps Capt. Raymond Riebli, a CH-53E Super Stallion Pilot attached to Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 262 (rein.), 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, and Capt. Kevin McGinty, a F-35B Pilot attached to Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 121, 31st MEU, explain the Air Combat Element's part in making the 31st MEU a complete Marine Air Ground Task Force aboard the amphibious assault ship the USS America (LHA 6), in the Philippine Sea, Aug. 27, 2024. The 31st MEU is operating aboard ships of the America Amphibious Ready 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 video by Cpl. Juan Maldonado)

U.S. Marines with Battalion Landing Team 1/5, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), train alongside Force Reconnaissance Platoon (FRP), Maritime Raid Force (MRF), 31st MEU, as a part of Visit Board Search and Seizure (VBSS) operations during MEU exercise (MEUEX) aboard the USAV Calaboza in Okinawa, Japan, Dec. 7, 2021. The Marine Corps ability to conduct VBSS operations is integral to our ability to operate in the Indonesian Pacific theatre. MEUEX is a pre-deployment training exercise that validates and reinforces the MEU’s mission capabilities across all of the Marine subordinate elements. 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. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Christopher W. England)

Reconnaissance Marines with the Force Reconnaissance Platoon, Maritime Raid Force, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, board the USNS Rappahannock and conduct Visit, Board, Search, and Seizure training operations, Aug. 18, 2018. MRF Marines train regularly for quick, tactical raids of targets on both land and sea. The 31st MEU, the Marine Corps’ only continuously forward-deployed MEU, provides a flexible force ready to perform a wide-range of military operations in the Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Bernadette Plouffe)

Force Reconnaissance Marines with Maritime Raid Force, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, conduct Visit, Board, Search, and Seizure training in Guam and while underway in the Pacific Ocean between Jan. and March, 2018. Marines with Force Reconnaissance Platoon train regularly for quick, tactical raids of targets on both land and sea. (U.S. Marine Corps Motion Imagery by Lance Cpl. Kristiana Gehly)