180929-M-DN224-004 PHILIPPINES (Sept. 29, 2018) Marines assigned to Combat Logistics Battalion (CLB) 31, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), prepare to move equipment onto a landing craft utility aboard the the amphibious dock landing ship USS Ashland (LSD 48), Sept. 29, 2018. The Marines of CLB-31 maintained and operated equipment and other vehicles in support of exercise KAMANDAG 2, a multinational exercise involving the U.S., Japan and the Philippines. The 31st MEU, the Marine Corps’ only continuously forward-deployed MEU, provides a flexible ready force capable of accomplishing a wide variety of missions. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Matt Navarra/Released)