 U.S. Marines with battalion landing team, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, execute a squad attack exercise on Camp Hanson, Okinawa, Japan, December 19, 2023. Squad attack exercises reinforce infantry tactics and combined arms lethality. The 31st MEU, the Marine Corps only continuously forward-deployed MEU, provides a flexible and lethal force ready to perform, a wide range of military operations, as the premier crisis response force in the Indo-Pacific region.