Marines with the Battalion Landing Team 1/5, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), enter a CH-53E Super Stallion during a helocast exercise at Kin Blue, Okinawa, Japan, April 27, 2022. Helocasting is a helicopter insertion technique to position and hover over water for Marines to jump out of. 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.

---

Size: 5472px × 3648px
Photo credit: © Operation 2022 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: 1/5, 31st, blt, blue, ch53e, helocast, kin, landing, meu, zone