Videos

A video highlighting the capabilities of Weapons Company with 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, in the Indo-Pacific, May, 26, 2025. They provide mobile, lightweight indirect fire capabilities in support of the MEU. 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 Lance Cpl. Raul Sotovilla)

Marines with Battalion Landing Team (BLT), 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), participate in a squad competition at Camp Hansen, Okinawa, Japan, Oct. 30, 2020. BLT 2/4 hosted a squad competition to enhance readiness and procedure familiarization. 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 Cpl. Brandon Salas)

Marines with Battalion Landing Team, 1st Battalion, 1st Marines, conduct a training exercise where they zero their weapons on Range 2, Camp Hansen, Okinawa, Japan, Nov. 28, 2017. The Marines with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit readied their M16A4 and M4 service rifles and M240B machine guns to prepare for the MEU's future deployments and to be ready to be called to action at a moment's notice. (U.S. Marine Corps Motion Imagery by Lance Cpl. Kristiana Gehly/Released)

Marines and Sailors experience the jolt of 50-thousand volts course through their bodies during nonlethal weapons training aboard the USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6), underway in the Pacific Ocean, Sept. 14, 2017. Nonlethal weapons instructors with Combat Logistics Battalion-31’s Military Police Platoon trained Marines and Sailors from across the 31st MEU to use Tasers and other nonlethal weapons during security operations. A critical component of nonlethal weapons training is “exposure,” when trainees feel and experience the effects of nonlethal weapons, including Tasers. CLB-31 provides logistical support to all elements of the 31st MEU. The 31st MEU partners with the Navy's Amphibious Squadron 11 to form the Bonhomme Richard Expeditionary Strike Group, providing a cohesive blue-green team capable of accomplishing a variety of missions across the Indo-Asia-Pacific region. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Breanna Weisenberger/Released)

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)

U.S. Marines with Weapons Company, Battalion Landing Team 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, conduct a live fire range with the Browning M2 .50 Caliber Machine Gun and a Mark-19 40mm at Camp Schwab, Okinawa, Japan, June 2, 2017. Weapons Company conducted the range to help Marines refine their employment of crew-served weapon systems. As the Marine Corps’ only continuously forward-deployed unit, the 31st MEU air-ground-logistics team provides a flexible force, ready to perform a wide range of military operations, from limited combat to humanitarian assistance operations, throughout the Indo-Asia-Pacific Region. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Garett Burns/Released)

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.