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    The 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (31st MEU) is one of seven Marine Expeditionary Units in existence in the United States Marine Corps. The Marine Expeditionary...
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    A Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU, pronounced as one syllable "M'you" IPA: /mjuː/) is the smallest air-ground task force (MAGTF) in the United States Fleet...
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  • block of United States Marine Corps combat power. A MEF is larger than a Marine expeditionary unit (MEU) or Marine expeditionary brigade (MEB). Each MEF...
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    III Marine Expeditionary Force (III MEF) is a formation of the Marine Air-Ground Task Force of the United States Marine Corps. It is forward-deployed...
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    BLT 1/5 in support of the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit. In July 2017, 1/5 Deployed with the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit (15th MEU) as the MEU's Ground...
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    battalion deployed to Okinawa to serve as the Ground Combat Unit for the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit from January 1, 2007, until January 1, 2008. The battalion...
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  • Expeditionary Unit 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit List of Air Expeditionary units of the United States...
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    to Okinawa for service as the Battalion Landing Team for the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit. The battalion also participated in several operations in East...
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    the Unit Deployment Program tour in Okinawa, mainland Japan, and the Philippines from April to December 2005 with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit and...
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    Insertion/Extraction Bianco, Michael (21 June 2009). "31st MEU Marines Fast Rope and Hook N' Climb at Sea". Marines.mil. Archived from the original on 18 February...
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  • Combat Logistics Battalion 31 (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the United States Marine Corps)
    battalion of the United States Marine Corps. CLB-31 is the Logistics Combat Element (LCE) of the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (31st MEU), the only continuously...
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  • 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit Fleet Marine Force (FMF) Organization...
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    A 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit attack helicopter fired off a missile in the Pacific, striking a moving target vessel. According to the 31st Marine Expeditionary...
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    31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (31st MEU), Special Operations Capable (SOC), made their first visit to Shanghai, China, since World War II. The 31st MEU-SOC...
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    Essex's maiden deployment was in October 1994. With the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) (Special Operations Capable (SOC)) embarked. In January...
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    Vehicle in late 2003, the Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle (EFV) was designed to replace the aging AAV. Able to transport a full Marine rifle squad to shore...
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    (1996). Marine: a guided tour of a Marine expeditionary unit. Penguin. p. 46. ISBN 978-0-425-15454-0. "Marine Corps Initial Strength Test - MarinesBootCampHQ...
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    deployed to Okinawa, Japan as the ground combat element for the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit. The battalion successfully completed operations throughout...
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    Typhoon Haiyan. In August 2015, Ashland with portions of the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit embarked conducted Defense Support to Civil Authorities (DSCA)...
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    support the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, and provided Harrier detachments in support the 11th, 13th, and 15th Marine Expeditionary Units (MEU). In 2005...
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    and the USS Germantown, along with 900 Okinawa-based Marines from the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, have arrived in the Philippines to boost Typhoon Haiyan...
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    5 August 2017, a U.S. Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey of Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 265 with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit took off from Bonhomme...
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    Maritime Special Purpose Force (category Marine expeditionary units of the United States Marine Corps)
    Special Purpose Force (MSPF) is a United States Marine Corps specialized sub-unit of a Marine expeditionary unit (special operations capable) (MEU(SOC)). A...
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    USS Belleau Wood LHA-3 (Tarawa Class Amphibious Assault Ship) 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit VMA-311 Tomcats Det. - AV-8B Harrier II HMLA Det. - AH-1W Super...
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    ACE for the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) and to prepare for potential contingency operations. After 18 months as the ACE of the 31st MEU, the Squadron...
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  • Sinking of MV Sewol (category Marine salvage operations)
    of Korea Army sent units including 150 Special Warfare Command soldiers and eleven ambulances. Starting on 17 April, Undine Marine Industries, a privately...
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    United States Central Command (category Military units and formations in Florida)
    Oman, Somalia, and Sudan. Exercise Jade Tiger involved the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit with Oman from 29 November 1982 to 8 December 1982. On 7 February...
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    assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, VMM-265, crashed in Shoalwater Bay, Australia on 5 August 2017, killing three Marines. The tiltrotor struck...
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    Force Seventh Fleet, Commander, Amphibious Squadron 11 and 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit and joined USS Germantown to form the Peleliu Amphibious Readiness...
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    Steven A. Hummer (category United States Marine Corps generals)
    Enhanced Training Section, 1st MARDIV; Operations Officer, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable), III MEF; Officer-In-Charge, Special...
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