Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Jamal Jackson, a mortarman with 3d Battalion, 3d Marines, adjusts an M224 60mm mortar system during Jungle Warfare Exercise in the Northern Training Area on Okinawa, Japan, May 25, 2021. This unscripted force-on-force exercise tested and strengthened the Marines’ ability to operate within distributed jungle and littoral environments, while adapting to a thinking peer-level adversary. 3/3 is forward-deployed in the Indo-Pacific under 4th Marines, 3d Marine Division, as a part of the Unit Deployment Program. Jackson is a native of Port Deposit, Maryland.

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Keywords: distributed, exercise, indo-pacific, jungle, littoral, warfare