Marines with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit’s Amphibious Reconnaissance Platoon, riding a Combat Rubber Raiding Craft, reach for a rope during Helocast and Special Patrol Insertion and Extraction training, underway in the East China Sea, Oct. 14, 2018. Helocasting and SPIE operations allow the recon Marines to enter and exit tactical landing zones that are inaccessible to helicopters during amphibious operations. The 31st MEU, the Marine Corps’ only continuously forward-deployed MEU, provides a flexible force ready to perform a wide-range of military operations in the Indo-Pacific region.

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