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Lance Cpl. Anthony Lopez, a rifleman with Echo Company, Battalion Landing Team, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, holds security inside a cleared building during a mechanized assault on Combat Town as part of the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit’s MEU Exercise, Central Training Area, Okinawa, Japan, June 28, 2018. Lopez, a native of Bakersfield, California, graduated from Ridgeview High School in May 2015 before enlisting in July of the same year. Marines and Sailors with Echo Company performed the final training event of MEUEX, an assault launched from Camp Schwab and targeting Combat Town, part of Okinawa’s Central Training Area. Marines with Echo Company, the mechanized assault element with BLT 2/5, partner with AAV crews to perform raids and assaults launched from the sea. MEUEX is the first in a series of three pre-deployment training events that prepare the 31st MEU to deploy at a moment’s notice. The 31st MEU, the Marine Corps’ only continuously forward-deployed MEU, provides a flexible force ready to perform a wide-range of military operations.

Lance Cpl. Anthony Lopez, a rifleman with Echo Company, Battalion Landing Team, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, holds security inside a cleared building during a mechanized assault on Combat Town as part of the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit’s MEU Exercise, Central Training Area, Okinawa, Japan, June 28, 2018. Lopez, a native of Bakersfield, California, graduated from Ridgeview High School in May 2015 before enlisting in July of the same year. Marines and Sailors with Echo Company performed the final training event of MEUEX, an assault launched from Camp Schwab and targeting Combat Town, part of Okinawa’s Central Training Area. Marines with Echo Company, the mechanized assault element with BLT 2/5, partner with AAV crews to perform raids and assaults launched from the sea. MEUEX is the first in a series of three pre-deployment training events that prepare the 31st MEU to deploy at a moment’s notice. The 31st MEU, the Marine Corps’ only continuously forward-deployed MEU, provides a flexible force ready to perform a wide-range of military operations.

Photo by Gunnery Sgt. T. T. Parish

Marines with Echo Company, Battalion Landing Team, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, riding Assault Amphibious Vehicles, head toward the shore during a mechanized assault as part of the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit’s MEU Exercise, near Ginoza Village, Okinawa, Japan, June 28, 2018. Marines and Sailors with Echo Company performed the final training event of MEUEX, an assault launched from Camp Schwab and targeting Combat Town, part of Okinawa’s Central Training Area. Marines with Echo Company, the mechanized assault element with BLT 2/5, partner with AAV crews to perform raids and assaults launched from the sea. MEUEX is the first in a series of three pre-deployment training events that prepare the 31st MEU to deploy at a moment’s notice. The 31st MEU, the Marine Corps’ only continuously forward-deployed MEU, provides a flexible force ready to perform a wide-range of military operations.

Marines with Echo Company, Battalion Landing Team, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, riding Assault Amphibious Vehicles, head toward the shore during a mechanized assault as part of the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit’s MEU Exercise, near Ginoza Village, Okinawa, Japan, June 28, 2018. Marines and Sailors with Echo Company performed the final training event of MEUEX, an assault launched from Camp Schwab and targeting Combat Town, part of Okinawa’s Central Training Area. Marines with Echo Company, the mechanized assault element with BLT 2/5, partner with AAV crews to perform raids and assaults launched from the sea. MEUEX is the first in a series of three pre-deployment training events that prepare the 31st MEU to deploy at a moment’s notice. The 31st MEU, the Marine Corps’ only continuously forward-deployed MEU, provides a flexible force ready to perform a wide-range of military operations.

Photo by Gunnery Sgt. T. T. Parish

U.S. Marines with Echo Company, Battalion Landing Team, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, sit inside Assault Amphibious Vehicles after going ashore during a mechanized assault as part of the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit’s MEU Exercise, near Ginoza Village, Okinawa, Japan, June 28, 2018. Marines and Sailors with Echo Company performed the final training event of MEUEX, an assault launched from Camp Schwab and targeting Combat Town, part of Okinawa’s Central Training Area.

U.S. Marines with Echo Company, Battalion Landing Team, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, sit inside Assault Amphibious Vehicles after going ashore during a mechanized assault as part of the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit’s MEU Exercise, near Ginoza Village, Okinawa, Japan, June 28, 2018. Marines and Sailors with Echo Company performed the final training event of MEUEX, an assault launched from Camp Schwab and targeting Combat Town, part of Okinawa’s Central Training Area.

Photo by Gunnery Sgt. T. T. Parish

U.S. Marines Corps Combat Engineers with Marine Rotational Force Darwin, detonate a water charge during a breach at Plum, New Caledonia, May 16, 2018. As a Combat Engineer, performing a breach is an objective that can be tasked if necessary Their capabilities are both constructive, e.g., building bunkers, providing utilities and destructive, e.g., demolition and breaching support capabilities to the battlefield. This unique combination of capabilities provides knowledge, experience and skills to commanders at the operational and tactical levels with which they can, according to Marine Corps Warfighting Publication 3-34, reduce friction, facilitate maneuver and improve the morale of friendly forces or create friction and disorder for the enemy.

U.S. Marines Corps Combat Engineers with Marine Rotational Force Darwin, detonate a water charge during a breach at Plum, New Caledonia, May 16, 2018. As a Combat Engineer, performing a breach is an objective that can be tasked if necessary Their capabilities are both constructive, e.g., building bunkers, providing utilities and destructive, e.g., demolition and breaching support capabilities to the battlefield. This unique combination of capabilities provides knowledge, experience and skills to commanders at the operational and tactical levels with which they can, according to Marine Corps Warfighting Publication 3-34, reduce friction, facilitate maneuver and improve the morale of friendly forces or create friction and disorder for the enemy.

Photo by Cpl. Mason Roy

U.S. Marines Corps Combat Engineers with Marine Rotational Force Darwin, conduct a breach at Plum, New Caledonia, May 16, 2018. As a Combat Engineer, performing a breach is an objective that can be tasked if necessary. Their capabilities are both constructive, e.g., building bunkers, providing utilities and destructive, e.g., demolition and breaching support capabilities to the battlefield. This unique combination of capabilities provides knowledge, experience and skills to commanders at the operational and tactical levels with which they can, according to Marine Corps Warfighting Publication 3-34, friction, facilitate maneuver and improve the morale of friendly forces or create friction and disorder for the enemy.

U.S. Marines Corps Combat Engineers with Marine Rotational Force Darwin, conduct a breach at Plum, New Caledonia, May 16, 2018. As a Combat Engineer, performing a breach is an objective that can be tasked if necessary. Their capabilities are both constructive, e.g., building bunkers, providing utilities and destructive, e.g., demolition and breaching support capabilities to the battlefield. This unique combination of capabilities provides knowledge, experience and skills to commanders at the operational and tactical levels with which they can, according to Marine Corps Warfighting Publication 3-34, friction, facilitate maneuver and improve the morale of friendly forces or create friction and disorder for the enemy.

Photo by Cpl. Mason Roy

U.S. Marines Corps Combat Engineers with Marine Rotational Force Darwin, detonate an oval charge during a breach at Plum, New Caledonia, May 16, 2018. As a Combat Engineer, performing a breach is an objective that can be tasked if necessary. Their capabilities are both constructive, e.g., building bunkers, providing utilities and destructive, e.g., demolition and breaching support capabilities to the battlefield. This unique combination of capabilities provides knowledge, experience and skills to commanders at the operational and tactical levels with which they can, according to Marine Corps Warfighting Publication 3-34, reduce friction, facilitate maneuver and improve the morale of friendly forces or create friction and disorder for the enemy.

U.S. Marines Corps Combat Engineers with Marine Rotational Force Darwin, detonate an oval charge during a breach at Plum, New Caledonia, May 16, 2018. As a Combat Engineer, performing a breach is an objective that can be tasked if necessary. Their capabilities are both constructive, e.g., building bunkers, providing utilities and destructive, e.g., demolition and breaching support capabilities to the battlefield. This unique combination of capabilities provides knowledge, experience and skills to commanders at the operational and tactical levels with which they can, according to Marine Corps Warfighting Publication 3-34, reduce friction, facilitate maneuver and improve the morale of friendly forces or create friction and disorder for the enemy.

Photo by Cpl. Mason Roy

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Joseph Manzie, combat engineer with Marine Rotational Force Darwin, provides security during patrol sweeps at Koumac, New Caledonia, May 20, 2018. Sweeps are typically conducted to search for materials in the ground that may be used against friendly forces or be of intelligence value. “Being a CE is that my job is so versatile,” said Manzie. “I have to ability to perform actions that can change the battlespace, such as breaching, sweeping, or engineer reconnaissance.”

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Joseph Manzie, combat engineer with Marine Rotational Force Darwin, provides security during patrol sweeps at Koumac, New Caledonia, May 20, 2018. Sweeps are typically conducted to search for materials in the ground that may be used against friendly forces or be of intelligence value. “Being a CE is that my job is so versatile,” said Manzie. “I have to ability to perform actions that can change the battlespace, such as breaching, sweeping, or engineer reconnaissance.”

Photo by Cpl. Mason Roy

Pfc. Braeden Martin, a machine gunner with Fox Company, Battalion Landing Team, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, and a native of Moore, Oklahoma, moves toward a waiting MV-22B Osprey tiltrotor aircraft after completing a simulated helicopter raid as part of the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit’s MEU Exercise at Ie Shima Training Facility, Okinawa, Japan, June 25, 2018. MEUEX is the first in a series of pre-deployment training events that prepare the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit to deploy at a moment’s notice. The 31st MEU, the Marine Corps' only continuously forward-deployed MEU, provides a flexible force ready to perform a wide-range of military operations.

Pfc. Braeden Martin, a machine gunner with Fox Company, Battalion Landing Team, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, and a native of Moore, Oklahoma, moves toward a waiting MV-22B Osprey tiltrotor aircraft after completing a simulated helicopter raid as part of the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit’s MEU Exercise at Ie Shima Training Facility, Okinawa, Japan, June 25, 2018. MEUEX is the first in a series of pre-deployment training events that prepare the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit to deploy at a moment’s notice. The 31st MEU, the Marine Corps' only continuously forward-deployed MEU, provides a flexible force ready to perform a wide-range of military operations.

Photo by Lance Cpl. Kealiiholokaikeikioka

A Marine with Headquarters Company, Headquarters Battalion, 3rd Marine Division, sights in while posting 360 degree security during a patrol at the Jungle Warfare Training Center, Camp Gonsalves, Okinawa, Japan June 28, 2018. The Marines are participating in a one week course to improve their jungle survival skills.

A Marine with Headquarters Company, Headquarters Battalion, 3rd Marine Division, sights in while posting 360 degree security during a patrol at the Jungle Warfare Training Center, Camp Gonsalves, Okinawa, Japan June 28, 2018. The Marines are participating in a one week course to improve their jungle survival skills.

Photo by Sgt. Brian Burdett

U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. James McKeag, a team leader with 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division, provides security while conducting a patrol during the Rifle Squad Competition on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., June 27, 2018. The units competed against each other to determine which squad will participate in the 1st MARDIV Infantry Competition in late August 2018.

U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. James McKeag, a team leader with 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division, provides security while conducting a patrol during the Rifle Squad Competition on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., June 27, 2018. The units competed against each other to determine which squad will participate in the 1st MARDIV Infantry Competition in late August 2018.

Photo by Cpl. Miguel Rosales

Lance Cpl. Andrew Parish, an infantry rifleman with 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division, competes during the Rifle Squad Competition on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., June 27, 2018. The units competed against each other to determine which squad will participate in the 1st MARDIV Infantry Competition in late August 2018.

Lance Cpl. Andrew Parish, an infantry rifleman with 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division, competes during the Rifle Squad Competition on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., June 27, 2018. The units competed against each other to determine which squad will participate in the 1st MARDIV Infantry Competition in late August 2018.

Photo by Lance Cpl. Megan Brown

Members of the Australian Defence Force board a CH-53 helicopter during Exercise Sea Explorer aboard the HMAS Canberra at Sea June 9, 2018. The helicopters and soldiers were practicing rescue and recovery missions as part of the overall Ex Sea Series 18. The series is designed to train Australian Forces and get them amphibious ready. U.S. Marines and Sailors with Marine Rotational Force - Darwin 18 are working along side the ADF as part of the Amphibious Task Group.

Members of the Australian Defence Force board a CH-53 helicopter during Exercise Sea Explorer aboard the HMAS Canberra at Sea June 9, 2018. The helicopters and soldiers were practicing rescue and recovery missions as part of the overall Ex Sea Series 18. The series is designed to train Australian Forces and get them amphibious ready. U.S. Marines and Sailors with Marine Rotational Force - Darwin 18 are working along side the ADF as part of the Amphibious Task Group.

Photo by Staff Sgt. Daniel Wetzel

Aircraft, Rescue and Firefighting Marines and Expeditionary Firefighting and Rescue Marines battle a blazing fire during a training exercise at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, N.C., June 21, 2018. The exercise gave Marines firsthand experience fighting the kind of fires they may encounter during their careers. The ARFF Marines are assigned to MCAS Cherry Point and the EFR Marines are assigned to Marine Wing Support Squadron 274, Marine Wing Support Group 27, 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing.

Aircraft, Rescue and Firefighting Marines and Expeditionary Firefighting and Rescue Marines battle a blazing fire during a training exercise at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, N.C., June 21, 2018. The exercise gave Marines firsthand experience fighting the kind of fires they may encounter during their careers. The ARFF Marines are assigned to MCAS Cherry Point and the EFR Marines are assigned to Marine Wing Support Squadron 274, Marine Wing Support Group 27, 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing.

Photo by Lance Cpl. Andrew King

U.S. Marine AAV-P7/A1 Assault Amphibian Vehicles with the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit board the USS Arlington via the well deck during Amphibious Squadron MEU Integration training in the Atlantic Ocean, June 15, 2018. PHIBRON-MEU Integration is a two-week training evolution that allows Sailors and U.S. Marines to train as a cohesive unit in preparation for their upcoming deployment.

U.S. Marine AAV-P7/A1 Assault Amphibian Vehicles with the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit board the USS Arlington via the well deck during Amphibious Squadron MEU Integration training in the Atlantic Ocean, June 15, 2018. PHIBRON-MEU Integration is a two-week training evolution that allows Sailors and U.S. Marines to train as a cohesive unit in preparation for their upcoming deployment.

Photo by Staff Sgt. Andrew Ochoa

A U.S. Sailor fires an M4 carbine as part of a small arms qualification course on the USS Fort McHenry flight deck during the Amphibious Squadron MEU Integration training in the Atlantic Ocean, June 17, 2018. Enhancing the integration of the Navy-Marine Corps team, PHIBRON-MEU is a two-week training evolution that allows U.S. Sailors and Marines to combine individual and unit skills in preparation for their upcoming deployment.

A U.S. Sailor fires an M4 carbine as part of a small arms qualification course on the USS Fort McHenry flight deck during the Amphibious Squadron MEU Integration training in the Atlantic Ocean, June 17, 2018. Enhancing the integration of the Navy-Marine Corps team, PHIBRON-MEU is a two-week training evolution that allows U.S. Sailors and Marines to combine individual and unit skills in preparation for their upcoming deployment.

Photo by Cpl. Aaron Henson

U.S. Navy flight crew with USS Arlington refuel a AH-1W “Super Cobra” attack helicopter with the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit as UH-1Y Huey “Venom” utility helicopter approaches the flight deck during Amphibious Squadron MEU Integration training in the Atlantic Ocean, June 13, 2018. PHIBRON-MEU Integration is a two-week training evolution that allows Sailors and Marines to train as a cohesive unit in preparation for their upcoming deployment.

U.S. Navy flight crew with USS Arlington refuel a AH-1W “Super Cobra” attack helicopter with the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit as UH-1Y Huey “Venom” utility helicopter approaches the flight deck during Amphibious Squadron MEU Integration training in the Atlantic Ocean, June 13, 2018. PHIBRON-MEU Integration is a two-week training evolution that allows Sailors and Marines to train as a cohesive unit in preparation for their upcoming deployment.

Photo by Staff Sgt. Andrew Ochoa

A U.S. Navy landing craft, air cushion with the Assault Craft Unit 4 board the USS Arlington via the well deck during the Amphibious Squadron MEU Integration training in the Atlantic Ocean, June 13, 2018. PHIBRON-MEU Integration is a two-week training evolution that allows Sailors and Marines to train as a cohesive unit in preparation for their upcoming deployment.

A U.S. Navy landing craft, air cushion with the Assault Craft Unit 4 board the USS Arlington via the well deck during the Amphibious Squadron MEU Integration training in the Atlantic Ocean, June 13, 2018. PHIBRON-MEU Integration is a two-week training evolution that allows Sailors and Marines to train as a cohesive unit in preparation for their upcoming deployment.

Photo by Staff Sgt. Andrew Ochoa

A U.S. Marine MV-22 Osprey with the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit lands on the deck of the USS Arlington during Amphibious Squadron MEU Integration training in the Atlantic Ocean, June 15, 2018. PHIBRON-MEU Integration is a two-week training evolution that allows Sailors and U.S. Marines to train as a cohesive unit in preparation for their upcoming deployment.

A U.S. Marine MV-22 Osprey with the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit lands on the deck of the USS Arlington during Amphibious Squadron MEU Integration training in the Atlantic Ocean, June 15, 2018. PHIBRON-MEU Integration is a two-week training evolution that allows Sailors and U.S. Marines to train as a cohesive unit in preparation for their upcoming deployment.

Photo by Staff Sgt. Andrew Ochoa

U.S. Sailors with the USS Arlington prepare to conduct a replenishment at sea from the USNS Supply during Amphibious Squadron MEU Integration training in the Atlantic Ocean, June 15, 2018. PHIBRON-MEU Integration is a two-week training evolution that allows Sailors and U.S. Marines to train as a cohesive unit in preparation for their upcoming deployment.

U.S. Sailors with the USS Arlington prepare to conduct a replenishment at sea from the USNS Supply during Amphibious Squadron MEU Integration training in the Atlantic Ocean, June 15, 2018. PHIBRON-MEU Integration is a two-week training evolution that allows Sailors and U.S. Marines to train as a cohesive unit in preparation for their upcoming deployment.

Photo by Staff Sgt. Andrew Ochoa

U.S. Marine Corps Drillmaster Staff Sgt. Ryan Guinty inspects recruits with Platoon 1057, Bravo Company, 1st Recruit Battalion during an initial drill evaluation June 25, 2018, on Parris Island, S.C. Drill instructors are evaluated on their appearance, sword control and cadence during the evaluation. Bravo Company is scheduled to graduate August 24, 2018. Parris Island has been the site of Marine Corps recruit training since Nov. 1, 1915. Today, approximately 19,000 recruits come to Parris Island annually for the chance to become United States Marines by enduring 13 weeks of rigorous, transformative training. Parris Island is home to entry-level enlisted training for approximately 49 percent of male recruits and 100 percent of female recruits in the Marine Corps.

U.S. Marine Corps Drillmaster Staff Sgt. Ryan Guinty inspects recruits with Platoon 1057, Bravo Company, 1st Recruit Battalion during an initial drill evaluation June 25, 2018, on Parris Island, S.C. Drill instructors are evaluated on their appearance, sword control and cadence during the evaluation. Bravo Company is scheduled to graduate August 24, 2018. Parris Island has been the site of Marine Corps recruit training since Nov. 1, 1915. Today, approximately 19,000 recruits come to Parris Island annually for the chance to become United States Marines by enduring 13 weeks of rigorous, transformative training. Parris Island is home to entry-level enlisted training for approximately 49 percent of male recruits and 100 percent of female recruits in the Marine Corps.

Photo by Sgt. Dana Beesley