Videos

Pacific Marines with Headquarters and Service Battalion, U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Pacific train with and participate in the Bazeilles Day ceremony with members of the Marine Infantry Regiment in French Polynesia, French Armed Forces in Arue Tahiti, French Polynesia, Aug. 28 to Sept. 8, 2023. The event provided an opportunity to conduct rigorous bilateral training between Pacific Marines and the French Armed Forces, strengthening relationships and building mutual respect among Allies and partners within the Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Dillon Buck)

U.S. Marines with Headquarters and Service and Battalion, U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Pacific, and members of the Marine Infantry Regiment in French Polynesia, French Armed Forces, participate in the AITO Course in Taravao, Tahiti, French Polynesia, Sept. 3 - 9, 2022. The Marines participated in the bilateral training with the French Armed Forces for their AITO Course in order to strengthen relationships with the region. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Dillon Buck) (Royalty-free music used under license with Storyblocks subscription, May 27, 2022)

Service members from the U.S. Armed Forces, Japan Self-Defense Force, French Armed Forces, Australian Defence Force, conducted multilateral exercise Jeanne D’Arc 21 on Camp Ainoura, Sasebo, Japan, May 11 - 16, 2021. ARC-21 serves as an opportunity for U.S., French, Japanese, and Australian forces to share experiences, tactics, and practices in order to strengthen bonds and maintain peace and stability throughout the Indo-Pacific. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Moises Rodriguez)

Sgt. Evan French is an ammunition technician with Combat Logistics Battalion 1, Combat Logistics Regiment 1, 1st Marine Logistics Group. French strives to better himself and better those around him by always out going out of his way to help peers and pushing himself to his limit in everything he does.

Marines with 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, participate in a ceremony honoring the legacy of the French fourragere award aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., Nov. 22, 2016. The French fourragere is a military award given to units as a whole for meritorious acts of conduct in action. The heroic acts of valor made the 5th and 6th Marine Regiments the only two units of the American Expeditionary Force to receive the fourragere. Marines display the award with a green and red braided rope with a spike on the end worn around the left shoulder of the service alpha uniform. The 5th and 6th Marine Regiments hold ceremonies twice a year to honor their history and to present new unit members with their own fourrageres. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Justin Huffty)

U.S. Marines and Sailors with Task Force Koa Moana 16-4 integrated with the French Army and the Republic of Fiji Military Forces for the French Army obstacle courses during Croix Du Sud in Plum, New Caledonia Nov. 12, 2016. Croix Du Sud is a multi-national, humanitarian assistance disaster relief and non-combatant evacuation operation exercise conducted every two years to prepare nations in the event of a cyclone in the South Pacific. The Koa Moana exercise seeks to enhance senior military leader engagements between allied and partner nations in the Pacific with a collective interest in military-to-military relations. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Quavaungh S. Pointer)

FAAONE, Tahiti -- U.S. Marines and sailors with Task Force Koa Moana 16-4, integrated with French forces during an exercise in Faaone, Tahiti, Sept. 26, 2016. Koa Moana and French forces participated in a ship to shore insertion to help improve upon relations and build camaraderie between the two partner nations. The Koa Moana exercise seeks to enhance senior military leader engagements between allied and partner nations in the Pacific with a collective interest in military-to-military relations and to discuss key aspects of military operations, capability development and interoperability in the South Pacific. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. James A. Trevino)

PAPENOO, Tahiti -- U.S. Marines and sialors with Task Force Koa Moana 16-4 integrated with French forces during an exercise in Papenoo, Tahiti, Sept. 26, 2016. Marines integrated squads with French forces and patrolled through the jungle in order to test their capabilities when engaging an enemy. The Koa Moana exercise seeks to enhance senior military leader engagements between allied and partner nations in the Pacific with a collective interest in military-to-military relations and to discuss key aspects of military opeartions, capability development and interoperability in the South Pacific. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Quavaungh Pointer)

FAAONE, Tahiti -- U.S. Marines and sailors with Task Force Koa Moana 16-4 integrated with French forces during an exercise in Faaone, Tahiti, Sept. 24, 2016. Koa Moana and French forces participated in a water endurance course to improve upon relations and build camaraderie between the two partner nations. The Koa Moana exercise seeks to enhance senior military leader engagements between allied and partner nations in the Pacific with a collective interest in military-to-military relations and to discuss key aspects of military operations, capability development and interoperability in the South Pacific (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. James A. Trevino)