Cpl. Dock Woodard, a radio operator with Headquarters, Alpha Company, Battalion Landing Team, 1st Battalion, 4th Marines, the “China Marines,” disassembles an M9A1 9 mm service pistol aboard the dock landing ship USS Ashland (LSD 48), East China Sea, Feb. 14, 2019. Woodard, from Jacksonville, Florida, graduated from Clay High School in June 2016 before enlisting from Vedra in October 2016. 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


Cpl. Dock Woodard, a radio operator with Headquarters, Alpha Company, Battalion Landing Team, 1st Battalion, 4th Marines, the “China Marines,” disassembles an M9A1 9 mm service pistol aboard the dock landing ship USS Ashland (LSD 48), East China Sea, Feb. 14, 2019. Woodard, from Jacksonville, Florida, graduated from Clay High School in June 2016 before enlisting from Vedra in October 2016. 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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