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)

This video highlights service member's sharing culture with the Okinawan community in 2017.

Marines and Sailors with 3D Marine Expeditionary Brigade provide food for less fortunate children during a community outreach event, March 3, 2017, at Yugafu Church, Okinawa, Japan. The event will be held quarterly and was the second time 3D MEB service members volunteered at the church. The video includes audio and video footage of Sgt. Maj. Mario P. Fields, the sergeant major of 3rd MEB. Fields is a native of Jacksonville, North Carolina. (U.S. Marine Corps Video by Lance Cpl. Jonah Baase)

A teaser to the written feature of Gunnery Sgt. Todd N. Groves, from Fulton, Missouri. Groves was a pig farmer growing up and has now found a place he can call home in Okinawa, Japan. Groves, a maintenance chief with Small Craft Repair Platoon, Expeditionary Operations Training Group, III Marine Expeditionary Force, has been volunteering on the farm of Bokusei Kinjo, an Okinawan farmer, for more than two years now.

Lance Cpl. Jay A. Parks, a Dickson, Tennessee native, sends Thanksgiving wishes to his friends and family, and gives a shout-out to his favorite college team, the University of Tennessee Volunteers.

Marines stationed on Okionawa celebrate Earth Day during a series of weeklong events April 19-25 on Marine Corps Base Camp Smedley D. Butler and the surrounding areas.