Lance Cpl. Andrew Foss, a rifleman with Alpha Company, Battalion Landing Team, 1st Battalion, 4th Marines, the “China Marines,” conducts a brass check of an M9A1 9 mm service pistol aboard the dock landing ship USS Ashland (LSD 48), East China Sea, Feb. 14, 2019. Foss, a native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, graduated from Riverside University in June 2017 before enlisting later that month. Alpha Company Marines are the small boat raid specialists for BLT 1/4, the Ground Combat Element for the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit. The 31st MEU, the Marine Corps’ only continuously forward-deployed MEU part
Lance Cpl. Andrew Foss, a rifleman with Alpha Company, Battalion Landing Team, 1st Battalion, 4th Marines, the “China Marines,” conducts a brass check of an M9A1 9 mm service pistol aboard the dock landing ship USS Ashland (LSD 48), East China Sea, Feb. 14, 2019. Foss, a native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, graduated from Riverside University in June 2017 before enlisting later that month. Alpha Company Marines are the small boat raid specialists for 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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