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U.S. Marines with Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, conduct live-fire training at Combined Arms Training Center, Camp Fuji, Japan, Sept. 26-Oct. 15, 2025. Marines conducted combined arms live-fire training to maintain operational readiness, tactical proficiency, and enhance lethality while operating within the first island chain. 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. Victor Gurrola)

In this episode, follow Capt. Marianne Sparklin as she takes to the skies in the UH-1Y Venom "Huey" helicopter. Sparklin is with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 262 (Reinforced), 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit. he ‘Welcome to the MEU’ video series is designed get behind the scenes with the Marines of the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit while on their Spring Patrol ‘15 of the Asia-Pacific Region. Follow the series on Facebook at www. facebook.com/31stMEU YouTube at www.youtube.com/user/The31stMEU DVIDS at https://www.dvidshub.net/unit/31MEU.

In this episode, get behind the scope with U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Seth Utlser, chief scout sniper with Weapons Company, Battalion Landing Team 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines as he takes aim at targets from the sky. The ‘Welcome to the MEU’ video series is designed get behind the scenes with the Marines of the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit while on their Spring Patrol ‘15 of the Asia-Pacific Region. Follow the series on Facebook at www. facebook.com/31stMEU; YouTube at www.youtube.com/user/The31stMEU, and DVIDS at https://www.dvidshub.net/unit/31MEU.

U.S. Marines with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 262 (Reinforced) (VMM-262 (REIN)), 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (31st MEU) conduct shipboard aircraft fire fighter training at Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, Okinawa, Japan. The training was designed to prepare Marines to assist Navy personnel in combating fires on the flight deck of an amphibious vessel in an emergency situation. VMM-262 (REIN) is in preparation for an upcoming amphibious deployment with the 31st MEU. (Marine Corps Motion Imagery Provided by Lance Cpl. Alexander N. Pool 31st MEU Combat Camera/ Released)

U.S. Marines and sailors with Marine Medium Tilt-rotor Squadron (VMM-265) conduct flight operations off of the USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD-6) in support of Exercise Ssang Yong 2014. All footage was captured from March 26 to April 4, 2014. Ssang Yong is conducted annually in the Republic of Korea (ROK) to enhance the interoperability of U.S. and ROK forces by performing a full spectrum of amphibious operations while showcasing sea-based power projection in the Pacific.(Marine Corps Motion Imagery Provided by Lance Cpl. Alexander N. Pool Combat Camera/ Released)