Ride for relief: Tour de Tohoku

Ride for relief: Tour de Tohoku

by III Marine Expeditionary Force
Stripes Okinawa
September 25, 2017

Sgt. Maj. Mario Marquez, sergeant major of III Marine Expeditionary Force, volunteered at the Tour de Tohoku, an annual charity bicycle tour along the coast of mainland Japan Sept. 17, 2017. Marquez volunteered at the tour and visited with the people of Ishinomaki City and Kesennuma City, where he and his previous unit provided humanitarian assistance after the Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami in 2011.

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