31st MEU conducts communications exercise at Camp Hansen

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Bridgette Rodriguez
U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Bridgette Rodriguez

31st MEU conducts communications exercise at Camp Hansen

by Lance Cpl. Bridgette Rodriguez
31st Marine Expeditionary Unit

U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. David Garcia, a satellite communications operator with the command element, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, sets up a Tampa Microwave satellite dish during a communications exercise at Camp Hansen, Okinawa, Japan, April 24, 2023. The communication field exercise was conducted to increase military occupation specialty knowledge and train for future deployments. The 31st MEU, the Marine Corps’ only continuously forward-deployed MEU, 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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