Lt. Cmdr. Jason Weatherwax, the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit’s Chaplain, looks out of a CH-53E Super Stallion with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 262 (Rein.) as part of typhoon relief efforts in Rota, Northern Mariana Islands, Sept. 11, 2018. Weatherwax, a native of Fort Anne, New York, graduated Fort Anne Central High School June 1994 and enlisted in the Navy the following month; he graduated from Nazarene Bible College and Theological Seminary May 2007 before he commissioned in May 2008. Service members from the Indo-Pacific Command are providing Department of Defense support to the Fede


Lt. Cmdr. Jason Weatherwax, the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit’s Chaplain, looks out of a CH-53E Super Stallion with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 262 (Rein.) as part of typhoon relief efforts in Rota, Northern Mariana Islands, Sept. 11, 2018. Weatherwax, a native of Fort Anne, New York, graduated Fort Anne Central High School June 1994 and enlisted in the Navy the following month; he graduated from Nazarene Bible College and Theological Seminary May 2007 before he commissioned in May 2008. Service members from the Indo-Pacific Command are providing Department of Defense support to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and working with Guam and Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas civil and local officials for Typhoon Mangkhut recovery efforts. The 31st MEU, the Marine Corps’ only continuously forward-deployed MEU, provides a flexible force ready to perform a wide-range of military operations.


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