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Navy Lt. Alexander J. Cho introduces Marines and sailors to the children at Tinian Elementary School during a community relations event Dec. 4. The service members are on Tinian for Exercise Forager Fury II. The series of exercises which Marine Aircraft Group 12 is conducting in the Mariana Islands focus on refining core skills within the squadrons and MAG. This, in turn prepares them to function as an integrated air unit able to perform a wide range of missions. The service members volunteered to spend time with the children by playing games and teaching life lessons. Cho is a Chaplain with Marine Wing Support Squadron 171, MAG-12, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, III Marine Expeditionary Force. - Navy Lt. Alexander J. Cho introduces Marines and sailors to the children at Tinian Elementary School during a community relations event Dec. 4. The service members are on Tinian for Exercise Forager Fury II. The series of exercises which Marine Aircraft Group 12 is conducting in the Mariana Islands focus on refining core skills within the squadrons and MAG. This, in turn prepares them to function as an integrated air unit able to perform a wide range of missions. The service members volunteered to spend time with the children by playing games and teaching life lessons. Cho is a Chaplain with Marine Wing Support Squadron 171, MAG-12, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, III Marine Expeditionary Force.

Corporal Elaine C. Romain, assessment consequence management team member, Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defense Platoon, 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, gives a class to Weapons Company, Battalion Landing Team 3/5, 15th MEU, on some of the different tools CBRN Marines use to operate in contaminated environments, aboard the USS Peleliu, Oct. 4. The 15th MEU?s CBRN Defense Platoon is spending an entire month preparing the 2,400 servicemembers that make up the MEU on how to properly operate in contaminated environments. The 15th MEU is currently embarked as part of the Peleliu Amphibious Ready Group, while they serve as the nation's rapid-response sea-based Marine Air Ground Task Force for Western Pacific Deployment 12-02. Romain, 21, is from New Orleans. - Corporal Elaine C. Romain, assessment consequence management team member, Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defense Platoon, 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, gives a class to Weapons Company, Battalion Landing Team 3/5, 15th MEU, on some of the different tools CBRN Marines use to operate in contaminated environments, aboard the USS Peleliu, Oct. 4. The 15th MEU?s CBRN Defense Platoon is spending an entire month preparing the 2,400 servicemembers that make up the MEU on how to properly operate in contaminated environments. The 15th MEU is currently embarked as part of the Peleliu Amphibious Ready Group, while they serve as the nation's rapid-response sea-based Marine Air Ground Task Force for Western Pacific Deployment 12-02. Romain, 21, is from New Orleans.

Lance Cpl. Jethel Hernandez, a machine gunner with Company G, Battalion Landing Team 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit and a native of Sioux City, Iowa, carries his M-240 machine gun while conducting a foot patrol during a helicopter raid on an enemy-held town, September 22. The 31st MEU is the only continuously forward-deployed MEU and is the Marine Corps? force in readiness in the Asia-Pacific region. - Lance Cpl. Jethel Hernandez, a machine gunner with Company G, Battalion Landing Team 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit and a native of Sioux City, Iowa, carries his M-240 machine gun while conducting a foot patrol during a helicopter raid on an enemy-held town, September 22. The 31st MEU is the only continuously forward-deployed MEU and is the Marine Corps? force in readiness in the Asia-Pacific region.