Cpl. Steven Helsel, a mortarman with Alpha Company, Battalion Landing Team, 1st Battalion, 4th Marines, the “China Marines,” helps carry a Combat Rubber Raiding Craft before a simulated boat raid aboard the dock landing ship USS Ashland (LSD 48), Philippine Sea, Jan. 25, 2019. Helsel, a native of Manton, Michigan, graduated from Manton High School in May 2015 before enlisting the following 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-deplo
Cpl. Steven Helsel, a mortarman with Alpha Company, Battalion Landing Team, 1st Battalion, 4th Marines, the “China Marines,” helps carry a Combat Rubber Raiding Craft before a simulated boat raid aboard the dock landing ship USS Ashland (LSD 48), Philippine Sea, Jan. 25, 2019. Helsel, a native of Manton, Michigan, graduated from Manton High School in May 2015 before enlisting the following 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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