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U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Malik Lewis

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Malik Lewis ()

U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Kasey Dimatteo, a chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) defense specialist with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), surveys a building during a training exercise in Combat Town, Okinawa, Japan Nov. 29, 2021. The training exercise consisted of Marines responding accordingly to different CBRN attacks. 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 premiere crisis response force in the Indo-Pacific region.

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