Cpl. Benjamin Ply, a rifleman with Alpha Company, Battalion Landing Team, 1st Battalion, 4th Marines, posts security during a simulated small-boat raid on Kin Blue beach, Okinawa, Japan, Feb. 3, 2019. Ply, a native of Dayton, Nevada, graduated from Dayton High School in May of 2015 before enlisting from RS Sacramento in March of the same year. Alpha Company is the small-boat raid company with BLT 1/4, the Ground Combat Element for the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit. The 31st MEU, the Marine Corps’ only continuously forward-deployed MEU partnering with the Wasp Amphibious Ready Group, provides
Cpl. Benjamin Ply, a rifleman with Alpha Company, Battalion Landing Team, 1st Battalion, 4th Marines, posts security during a simulated small-boat raid on Kin Blue beach, Okinawa, Japan, Feb. 3, 2019. Ply, a native of Dayton, Nevada, graduated from Dayton High School in May of 2015 before enlisting from RS Sacramento in March of the same year. Alpha Company is the small-boat raid company with BLT 1/4, the Ground Combat Element for the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit. The 31st MEU, the Marine Corps’ only continuously forward-deployed MEU partnering with the Wasp Amphibious Ready Group, 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.
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