Videos

U.S. Marines with Kilo Company, Battalion Landing Team 3/5, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), conduct Exercise Dark Horse at the Jungle Warfare Training Center in Okinawa, Japan, Oct. 18, 2021. Exercise Dark Horse was a battalion wide field exercise that incorporated Expeditionary Advanced Base Operation concepts for potential enemy maritime forces. 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 premier crisis response force in the Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Grace Gerlach)

Machine gunners with Battalion Landing Team, 3rd Battalion 5th Marines, 31st Marine Expeditionary unit fire the M240G at a killer tomato moving target aboard the Bonhomme Richard (LHD-6) on June 11, 2017. The 31st MEU partners with the Navy’s Amphibious Squadron 11 to form amphibious component of the Bonhomme Richard Expeditionary Strike Group. The 31st MEU and PHIBRON 11 combine to provide a cohesive blue-green team capable of accomplishing a variety of missions across the Indo-Asia-Pacific.(U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Garett Burns)