Marines with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), prepare to board a MV-22B Osprey as the Humanitarian Assistance Survey Team (HAST) during a MEU exercise (MEUEX) at Camp Hansen, Okinawa, Japan, Dec. 7, 2021. HAST serves as the tactical level reconnaissance of a Humanitarian Operation, providing an initial ground assessment of the conditions that exist in the area of operation. MEUEX is a pre-deployment training exercise that validates and reinforces the MEU’s mission capabilities across all of the Marine subordinate elements. The 31st MEU, the Marine Corps’ only continuously forward


Marines with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), prepare to board a MV-22B Osprey as the Humanitarian Assistance Survey Team (HAST) during a MEU exercise (MEUEX) at Camp Hansen, Okinawa, Japan, Dec. 7, 2021. HAST serves as the tactical level reconnaissance of a Humanitarian Operation, providing an initial ground assessment of the conditions that exist in the area of operation. MEUEX is a pre-deployment training exercise that validates and reinforces the MEU’s mission capabilities across all of the Marine subordinate elements. 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. ( Marine Corps photo by Staff Sgt. J. R. Heins)


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