Marines with Battalion Landing Team 1/1, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, detonate an explosive charge during urban sustainment training on Camp Hansen, Okinawa, Japan, Jan. 5, 2024. Combat engineers attached to BLT 1/1 taught Marines proper procedures for making and employing breaching charges in urban environments. 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.

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