III MEF VIDEOS

U.S. Marines with 5th Air Naval Gunfire Liaison Company, III Marine Expeditionary Force Information Group, train with New Zealand Soldiers during Exercise Joint Assault Signals Company Black on North Island, New Zealand from Sep. 7 to Oct. 14, 2018. Small units of New Zealand Army soldiers and Marines were tasked to coordinate and control offensive fire in a variety of training environments.

The Bell UH-1Y Venom "The Huey" is a combat-proven utility helicopter slated to support the U.S. Marine Corps global missions for the next four decades. The Huey engages threats, delivers or exfiltrate personnel and performs under the most punishing operating conditions, making it the ultimate tactical utility helicopter. The UH-1Y Venom was first deployed with the U.S. Marine Corps in 2009. The Huey lineage can be traced back to combat action in Vietnam, but today’s UH-1Y is a thoroughly modern aircraft. The UH-1Y is generations ahead of its predecessors in terms of effectiveness, performance, and safety. The Huey operates in the most extreme environments, from Arctic cold to desert heat. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Andy O. Martinez)

Marines with III Marine Expeditionary Force Expeditionary Operations Training Group conduct helocasting June 1, 2018. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Andrew Neumann)

Marine Aircraft Group 36, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, the first complete Marine air group to be transported by sea to a combat zone, launched from the USS Princeton to the shores of Vietnam, Sept. 1, 1965. Immediately, they began providing troop lifts, air strikes, medical evacuation, resupplies, and reconnaissance insertions and extractions in the southern area of operations. MAG-36 flew daily in support of Marines on the ground. Meanwhile, while many U.S. and South Vietnamese forces celebrated the Tet holiday, tens of thousands of North Vietnamese soldiers, Viet Cong guerrillas and local communist militants moved under the cover of night. Their objective was to simultaneously attack more than 100 U.S. and South Vietnamese occupied cities and bases. In the early hours of Jan. 31, 1968, the Communist-led Tet Offensive was in full force.

U.S. Marines with the 3rd Marine Logistics Group, along with U.S. Soldiers with the 25th Infantry Division and Royal Thai Marines conduct helicopter support team operations on Camp Ban Chan Khrem, Thailand, Feb. 16, 2018. The operations are a part of Exercise Cobra Gold, an annual exercise conducted in the Kingdom of Thailand that runs from Feb. 13-23 with seven full participating nations. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Joshua Pinkney)

U.S. Marines with Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron (HMLA) 367 bid their final farewell to the AH-1W Super Cobra helicopters on Marine Corps Base Hawaii, March 13, 2017. Maj. Robert Arbegast, the maintenance officer of HMLA-367, and Maj. Mark Koval, the squadron operations officer with HMLA-367, remark about the final flight of the AH-1W whiskey, which are being replaced by the AH-1Z Viper helicopters. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Justin Dixon)

Marines with Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 369 explain what they do prior to take off to ensure aviation safety. Sgt. Carson Chandler from Austin, Texas, is a crew chief with HMLA-369, Marine Aircraft Group 36, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Jess Etheridge)