Posted January 6, 2016 10:56 am by Comments

By Tactical-Life

The following is a release from Cpl. Thor Larson, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit:

It’s the middle of the night helicopters fly overhead, Marines surround a house and the loud crack of a flashbang goes off while a voice booms through a megaphone. “Come out now and you will be treated kindly, if not you are putting your life at risk!” Slowly a few people start to come out of the house, but not everyone does and the Marines are forced to go in. The Marines stack up on a door and rush into the house and the quiet cracks of suppressed weapons fill the air as the Marines take over room-by-room.

The Marines with Maritime Raid Force, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, conducted two raids on simulated high value targets during Interoperability Exercise 16-1 on Camp Hansen, Okinawa, Japan, Dec. 6-16, 2015. The missions during INTEROP are used to provide realistic mission sets and environments the MRF could be tasked with while a part of the 31st MEU.

“INTEROP is the first opportunity the Force Reconnaissance Platoon, Amphibious Reconnaissance Platoon, and the Rifle Platoon from the Battalion Landing Team have to combine …Read the Rest

Source:: Tactical Life

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