III MEF VIDEOS

Marines with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit participate in volunteer events hosted by the Single Marine Program at locations across Okinawa, Japan, April 18-26, 2019. During the SMP’s Days of Service week, 31st MEU Marines helped give back to the local community during outreach events across Okinawa. The 31st MEU, the Marine Corps’ only continuously forward-deployed MEU, provides a flexible force ready to perform a wide range of military operations as the premier crisis response force in the Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Tanner D. Lambert, Lance Cpl. Cameron E. Parks and Lance Cpl. Kevin A. Dunlop/Released)

Navy Lieutenant Nii Adjel Oninku, a Dayton, Ohio native, stages blood units from Okinawa, Japan at local host nation support hospitals for Exercise Cobra Gold 2018. The blood is stored for U.S. service members in the event they are injured during the exercise. After the exercise the remaining donated blood will be given to the local hospitals to use at their discretion. Cobra Gold 2018 is an annual exercise conducted in the Kingdom of Thailand held from Feb. 13-21 with seven full participating nations. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Sgt. Devin Phommachanh)

Marines from 3rd Intelligence Battalion participate in a 24-hour, 1,000 pull-up challenge April 10 on Camp Hansen. Lance Cpl. Wes Lucko takes us to Camp Hansen for the story. Includes sound bites from Sgt. Azariah Pierce, Single Marine Program President and Staff Sgt. Ray Santoyo, Pull-up Challenge Participant. Also available in high definition.