INDIAN OCEAN (July 23, 2015) Marines with the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) do side-straddle hops during a Marine Corps Martial Arts Program course aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2). MCMAP keeps the Marines in good physical shape as well as pushing them mentally to become better leaders and Marines as a whole. Elements of the 15th MEU, based out of Camp Pendleton, California, and embarked aboard the Essex, are conducting naval operations in the 6th Fleet area of operations in support of national security interests in Europe and Africa. ( Marine Corps pho


INDIAN OCEAN (July 23, 2015) Marines with the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) do side-straddle hops during a Marine Corps Martial Arts Program course aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2). MCMAP keeps the Marines in good physical shape as well as pushing them mentally to become better leaders and Marines as a whole. Elements of the 15th MEU, based out of Camp Pendleton, California, and embarked aboard the Essex, are conducting naval operations in the 6th Fleet area of operations in support of national security interests in Europe and Africa. ( Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Anna Albrecht/Released)


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