Maritime Raid Force News Today

A force of 100 Marines, newly trained by Navy personnel, stand ready to respond, if ordered, to provide armed security aboard foreign commercial ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz, USNI has learned. The Marines are members of the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) embarked on the three-ship Bataan Amphibious Ready Group. They were […]

The 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit’s recently-completed deployment across the Pacific started out with the Marine Corps’ first operational deployment of a full squadron of F-35B Lightning II Joint Strike Fighters and closed out with a sinking of an old warship during an exercise in the South China Sea. “We had a wildly successful deployment,” Col. […]

GULF OF MANNAR (Jan. 23, 2023) – U.S. Marines with Maritime Raid Force, 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit, approach SLNS Gajabahu (P626) for a vessel, board, search, and seizure exercise during Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training/Marine Exercise Sri Lanka 2023, Jan. 23. CARAT/MAREX Sri Lanka is a bilateral exercise between Sri Lanka and the United States designed to promote regional security cooperation, practice humanitarian assistance and disaster relief, and strengthen maritime understan...

Under cover of darkness on Tuesday night, members of the Honolulu Police Department’s SWAT team, federal agents and members of the Marine Corps’ Okinawa-based Maritime Raid Force quietly made their way into Aloha Stadium as part of an urban combat training exercise.

The 31st Marine Expeditionary Units Japan-based Maritime Raid Force will return to Oahu on Friday to conduct a series of training events through Jan. 20.

U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Henry Underwood, a reconnaissance Marine with Maritime Raid Force, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, and a Philippine reconnaissance Marine conduct amphibious reconnaissance training during KAMANDAG 6

APR 20, 2022U.S. Reconnaissance Marines with Maritime Raid Force, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, rappel down a tower during Helicopter Rope Suspension Technique training on Camp Schwab, Okinawa, Japan, April 11, 2022. Reconnaissance Marines practice a multitude of infiltration techniques to access any area of operation around the globe. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Grace