Marines load onto a CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter from Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 361, forward deployed to Marine Aircraft Group 36, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, from the flight deck of the amphibious transport dock ship USS Green Bay (LPD 20), during Blue Chromite 2017 in Okinawa, Japan, November 3, 2016. Blue Chromite is a –only exercise which strengthens the Navy-Marine Corps expeditionary, amphibious rapid-response capabilities based in Okinawa and the greater Indo-Asia-Pacific region.

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