Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Damian Sandoval, a combat engineer with 9th Engineer Support Battalion (ESB), 3d Marine Logistics Group (MLG), and Hondo, Texas native, pulls himself across a line at the Jungle Warfare Training Center during exercise Pacific Pioneer at Camp Gonsalves, Okinawa, Japan, April 15, 2021. Pacific Pioneer serves as 9th ESB's Marine Corps Combat Readiness Evaluation as well as an opportunity to demonstrate the ability to establish and sustain expeditionary advanced bases with survivable force protection, practice naval integration, and position long range precision fires


Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Damian Sandoval, a combat engineer with 9th Engineer Support Battalion (ESB), 3d Marine Logistics Group (MLG), and Hondo, Texas native, pulls himself across a line at the Jungle Warfare Training Center during exercise Pacific Pioneer at Camp Gonsalves, Okinawa, Japan, April 15, 2021. Pacific Pioneer serves as 9th ESB's Marine Corps Combat Readiness Evaluation as well as an opportunity to demonstrate the ability to establish and sustain expeditionary advanced bases with survivable force protection, practice naval integration, and position long range precision fires and tactical logistics nodes across littoral regions in support of naval operations. 3d MLG, based out of Okinawa, Japan, is a forward deployed combat unit that serves as III MEF’s comprehensive logistics and combat service support backbone for operations throughout the Indo-Pacific area of responsibility.


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