02/21/2013: Marines and Sailors of Company A., Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, conduct an amphibious assault as part of exercise Cobra Gold 2013. Credit:31st Marine Expeditionary Unit:2/14/13
02/19/2013: 31st MEU, Thai Marines conduct bilateral boat raid [slidepress gallery='31st-meu-thai-marines-conduct-bilateral-boat-raid'] Credit:31st Marine Expeditionary Unit:2/15/13 In the first photo, Marines and Sailors with Company B., Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, speed ashore on combat rubber raiding crafts during a bilateral boat raid as…
02/18/2013: The 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit's Maritime Raid Force conducted its annual Realistic Urban Training Exercise on an empty facility on Guam. The purpose for conducting such an exercise in a different country is to evaluate the MRF's long-range raid capabilities, executing operations in a foreign environment. Credit:31st Marine Expeditionary…
02/18/2013: Marines and Sailors of Company C., Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, execute a helicopter raid alongside their Thai counterparts as part of exercise Cobra Gold 2013. The U.S. and Thai Marines inserted together via CH-53E Super Stallion and CH-46E Sea Knight helicopters…
02/15/2013: Approximately 1,000 Marines and Sailors of the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit offloaded from three ships of the Navy's Amphibious Squadron 11 to begin the multinational exercise Cobra Gold 2013 in the Kingdom of Thailand. The unit was brought ashore using the Navy's landing craft utility, landing craft air cushions,…
02/13/2013: The USS Blue Ridge is one of two special USN flagships. As Col. Weisz noted about the Blue Ridge and Mount Whitney: Both the BLUE RIDGE and MOUNT WHITNEY offer a great capability for enabling and supporting distributed operations. In fact, I don’t know of any other ship in…
02/12/2013: The aircrew of an Air Station Houston MH-65 Dolphin helicopter return after locating and rescuing a boater that had run aground Dec. 14, 2012, near Port Arthur, Texas. A 33-year-old man was rescued by a Coast Guard aircrew when his boat ran aground, Friday, approximately 7 miles southeast of…
2013-02-11 Maj. Gen. Christopher S. Owens visited with service members on Wing One Royal Thai Air Force Base, Nakhon Ratchasima, Kingdom of Thailand Feb. 10 before the start of exercise Cobra Gold 2013. CG 13, in its 32nd iteration, is designed to advance regional security and ensure effective response to…
