190609-M-LD713-043 PHILIPPINE SEA (June 9, 2019) Marines assigned to Weapons Company, Battalion Landing Team, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines, fire an M2 .50-caliber Browning machine gun off the deck of the the amphibious assault ship USS Wasp (LHD 1), underway in the Philippine Sea, June 9, 2019. The 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, 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. (Official U.S. Marine Corps Photo by Lance Cpl. Kevan Dunlop/Released)