Cpl. Steve Hardin, a team leader with Echo Company, Battalion Landing Team, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, motions to his team while participating in a mechanized raid as part of Amphibious Integrated Training (AIT) at Marine Corps Base Camp Butler, Okinawa, Japan, March 15, 2017. AIT assimilates the capabilities of the 31st MEU Marine Air-Ground Task Force and the amphibious ships of the Bonhomme Richard Amphibious Ready Group to conduct ship to shore operations. As the Marine Corps' only continuously forward-deployed unit, the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit's air
Cpl. Steve Hardin, a team leader with Echo Company, Battalion Landing Team, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, motions to his team while participating in a mechanized raid as part of Amphibious Integrated Training (AIT) at Marine Corps Base Camp Butler, Okinawa, Japan, March 15, 2017. AIT assimilates the capabilities of the 31st MEU Marine Air-Ground Task Force and the amphibious ships of the Bonhomme Richard Amphibious Ready Group to conduct ship to shore operations. As the Marine Corps' only continuously forward-deployed unit, the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit's air-ground-logistics team provides a flexible force, ready to perform a wide range of military operations, from limited combat to humanitarian assistance operations, throughout the Indo-Asia-Pacific region. ( Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Darien J. Bjorndal)
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