Petty Officer 1st Class Steven Meakins, a construction electrician Seabee with Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 1, fixes a wire during relief efforts in the wake of Super Typhoon Yutu, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Nov. 1, 2018. Meakins, a native of Middleburgh, Florida, graduated from Sarasota High School in May 2003; he enlisted May 2005. Marines with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit and CLB-31 arrived on Tinian Oct. 29-30 in the wake of Super Typhoon Yutu as part of the Defense Support of Civil Authorities here. The Marines arrived at the request of CNMI officials
Petty Officer 1st Class Steven Meakins, a construction electrician Seabee with Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 1, fixes a wire during relief efforts in the wake of Super Typhoon Yutu, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Nov. 1, 2018. Meakins, a native of Middleburgh, Florida, graduated from Sarasota High School in May 2003; he enlisted May 2005. Marines with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit and CLB-31 arrived on Tinian Oct. 29-30 in the wake of Super Typhoon Yutu as part of the Defense Support of Civil Authorities here. The Marines arrived at the request of CNMI officials and the Federal Emergency Management Agency to assist relief efforts in the wake of Yutu, the largest typhoon to ever hit a territory. The 31st MEU, the Marine Corps’ only continuously forward-deployed MEU, provides a flexible force ready to perform a wide-range of military operations across the Indo-Pacific region.
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