Videos

Members from the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force, Royal Thai Army, U.S. Army Soldiers from the 555th Engineer Brigade and 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne) and U.S. Marines from Marine Wing Support Squadron (MWSS) 171, Marine Aircraft Group 12 work together to construct a multipurpose building during Exercise Cobra Gold 2024 (CG24) at the Ban Nong Yai School, Chachoengsao Province, Kingdom of Thailand, Feb. 8-Mar. 7, 2024. Joint Exercise Cobra Gold is the largest joint exercise in mainland Asia and a concrete example of the strong alliance and strategic relationship between Thailand and the United States. This year will be the 43rd iteration of the multilateral exercise and will be held from Feb. 27 to March 8, 2024. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Isabella Mancini)

U.S. Marines with Marine Wing Support Squadron (MWSS) 373, Marine Air Control Group 38, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, conduct a bridge demolition operation during phase I of Strategic Mobility Exercise (STRATMOBEX) II at San Clemente Island, California, Jan. 4-6, 2024. During phase I, MWSS-373 demolished a hazardous bridge that hindered range control’s ability to insert targets into the Shore Bombardment Area of San Clemente Island. Phase I set conditions for phases II and III of STRATMOBEX II; the construction of a shallow water crossing and follow on missions. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Sgt. Luc Boatman)

U.S. Marines with Combat Logistics Battalion 1 (Reinforced) and 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment (Reinforced), Marine Rotational Force - D 23, participate in a breacher course at Mount Bundey Training Area, Northern Territory, Australia, July 20, 2023. The course is a five-day instructional period that teaches the fundamentals of dynamic breaching, furthering the integration of combat engineers into infantry platoons. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Gabriel Antwiler)

U.S. Marines with Service Company, 7th Communication Battalion, III Marine Expeditionary Force Information Group, repair the road on Kin Blue Beach Training Area, Okinawa, Japan, April 7-10, 2023. The Marines conducted the route improvements to maintain proficiency in their military occupational skills. III MIG functions as the vanguard of III MEF, operating in the Indo-Pacific regions information environment, and supports Marine Air Ground Task Force operations with communications, intelligence, and supporting arms liaison capabilities. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Angel Diaz Montes De Oca)

U.S. Marines with Marine Wing Support Squadron 372, Marine Air Control Group 38, 3rd Marine Air Wing, U.S. Navy Sailors with Naval Mobile Construction Battalion Five, and U.S. Airmen with 30th Civil Engineer Squadron conduct a joint, rapid airfield damage repair and unexploded ordnance clearance exercise on a simulated flight line during Exercise Turning Point, at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, May 31 – June 16, 2022. Exercise Turning Point is a combat operations readiness generation exercise designed to support and enable fleet maneuver and logistics, enhance joint interoperability, and increase the combat readiness of multiple services. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Daniel Childs)

U.S. Marines with 2d Battalion, 2d Marines, conduct a demolition range during Fuji Viper 21.4 at Combined Arms Training Center, Camp Fuji Japan, June 21, 2021. During this exercise Marines sharpened critical combined arms skills, ensuring they are ready and capable to execute a wide range of missions anywhere in the world. 2/2 is forward-deployed in the Indo-Pacific under 4th Marines, 3d Marine Division. (U.S. Marine Corps Video by Lance Cpl. Joshua Brittenham)

U.S. Marines with Bravo Company, 7th Engineer Support Battalion, 1st Marine Logistics Group, I Marine Expeditionary Force, conduct urban breaching training during a battalion field exercise on Camp Pendleton, California, May 19, 2021.

U.S. Marines with 9th Engineer Support Battalion (ESB), 3d Marine Logistics Group (MLG), and U.S. Navy Sailors with Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 4 (NMCB), conduct exercise Pacific Pioneer on Kin Blue training area, Okinawa, Japan, April 19, 2021. NMCB-4 attached to 9th ESB during exercise Pacific Pioneer to provide support through purifying ocean water to create drinking water for the Marines at the Camp. Pacific Pioneer serves as 9th ESB's Marine Corps Combat Readiness Evaluation as well as an opportunity to demonstrate the ability to establish and sustain expeditionary advanced bases with survivable force protection. `3d MLG, based out of Okinawa, Japan, is a forward deployed combat unit that serves as III MEF’s comprehensive logistics and combat service support backbone for operations throughout the Indo-Pacific area of responsibility. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Alpha Hernandez)

U.S. Marine Corps 1st Lt. Davidson Venancio, an infantry tactical advisor with Combat Logistics Regiment 37, 3rd Marine Logistics Group (MLG), and 1st Lt Diego Alvarez, platoon commander with 9th Engineer Support Battalion, 3rd MLG, explain future war fighting concepts at Camp Fuji, Japan, Oct 30, 2020. 3rd MLG, based out of Okinawa, Japan, is a forward deployed combat unit that serves as III Marine Expeditionary Force’s comprehensive logistics and combat service support backbone for operations throughout the Indo-Pacific area of responsibility. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Moises Rodriguez)