Marines with Alpha Company, Battalion Landing Team, 1st Battalion, 4th Marines, prepare to launch a Combat Rubber Raiding Craft from the well deck aboard the dock landing ship USS Ashland (LSD 48), Philippine Sea, Feb. 2, 2019. Alpha Company is the small-boat raid company with BLT 1/4, the Ground Combat Element for the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit. The 31st MEU, the Marine Corps’ only continuously forward-deployed MEU partnering with the Wasp Amphibious Ready Group, provides a flexible and lethal force ready to perform a wide range of military operations as the premier crisis response force
Marines with Alpha Company, Battalion Landing Team, 1st Battalion, 4th Marines, prepare to launch a Combat Rubber Raiding Craft from the well deck aboard the dock landing ship USS Ashland (LSD 48), Philippine Sea, Feb. 2, 2019. Alpha Company is the small-boat raid company with BLT 1/4, the Ground Combat Element for the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit. The 31st MEU, the Marine Corps’ only continuously forward-deployed MEU partnering with the Wasp Amphibious Ready Group, 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. (Official Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Mackenzie Carter/ Released)
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