Sgt. William Faulkner, a motor transportation opperator with Combat Logistics Battalion 31, guides a heavy forklift carrying Federal Emergency Management Agency tents during Defense Support of Civil Authorities relief efforts on Tinian, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Nov. 4, 2018. Faulkner, a native of Liverpool, Texas, graduated from Alvin High School in May 2011 before enlisting in April 2012. Businesses, government buildings, homes and schools were heavily damaged by Super Typhoon Yutu, which made a direct hit with devastating effect on Tinian Oct. 25 as the second
Sgt. William Faulkner, a motor transportation opperator with Combat Logistics Battalion 31, guides a heavy forklift carrying Federal Emergency Management Agency tents during Defense Support of Civil Authorities relief efforts on Tinian, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Nov. 4, 2018. Faulkner, a native of Liverpool, Texas, graduated from Alvin High School in May 2011 before enlisting in April 2012. Businesses, government buildings, homes and schools were heavily damaged by Super Typhoon Yutu, which made a direct hit with devastating effect on Tinian Oct. 25 as the second strongest storm to ever hit soil. Marines with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit and CLB-31 arrived on Tinian Oct. 29-31 in the wake of Super Typhoon Yutu as part of Task Force-West. TF-W is providing Department of Defense support to the CNMI's civil and local officials as part of the FEMA-supported Super Typhoon recovery effort. The 31st MEU, the Marine Corps' only continuously forward-deployed MEU, provides a flexible force ready to perform a wide-range of military operations across the Indo-Pacific region.
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