PACIFIC OCEAN (May 3, 2021) U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Nicholas Pleshe, an aircraft ordnance technician with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 164 (Reinforced), 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), watches MV-22 Ospreys with VMM-164 (Reinforced), 15th MEU, the flight deck of the amphibious assault ship USS Makin Island (LHD 8) in support of Northern Edge 2021. U.S. service members are participating in a joint training exercise hosted by U.S. Pacific Air Forces, May 3-14, 2021, on and above the Joint Pacific Alaska Range Complex, the Gulf of Alaska, and temporary maritime activities area. NE21 is one in a series of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command exercises designed to sharpen the joint forces� skills, to practice tactics, techniques, and procedures, to improve command, control and communication relationships and to develop cooperative plans and programs. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Patrick Crosley)