170922-M-IU921-005.JPG - U.S. service members and Japanese citizens take off from the starting line at the Tour de Tohoku annual charity bicycle tour at Ishinomaki City, Japan, Sept. 17, 2017. Tour de Tohoku takes place along the coast of mainland Japan, and brings donations to areas affected by the Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami in 2011. III Marine Expeditionary Force provided personnel, equipment and supplies in support of relief efforts during Operation Tomodachi, the disaster relief operation in response to the earthquake and tsunami. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Maj. Mario Marquez)
170706-M-TC241-1071.JPG - U.S. Marine Cpl. Otto Thiele was one of the five Marines to assist a local Japanese woman on his way down Mount Fuji, Japan, July 3, 2017. The woman, Moe Oda, was found lying on the ground, hyperventilating and struggling to breathe when the Marines came to her assistance. Thiele made the original call to the emergency line to alert them about the situation. Together, they created a makeshift stretcher to carry her down approximately two miles to get to medical assistance. Thiele, a 21 year old, St. Charles, Missouri native, is a micro miniature repairman with Electronics Maintenance Company, 3d Maintenance Battalion, Combat Logistics Regiment 35, 3d Marine Logistics Group, III Marine Expeditionary Force.
170617-M-ZL682-8299.JPG - Chief Hospital Corpsman (Fleet Marine Force) Edgar E. Cuenca, right, a preventive medicine technician with Command Element, III Marine Expeditionary Force, and Hospital Corpsman (FMF) Joseph E. Clack, left, a corpsman assigned to 3rd Medical Battalion, 3rd Marine Logistics Group, III MEF, simultaneously cut a ceremonial cake during a celebration for the 119th birthday of the hospital corpsman rate at Camp Mujuk, Pohang, Republic of Korea, June 17, 2017. Marines from Bravo Company, 3rd Law Enforcement Battalion, III Marine Headquarters Group, III MEF and Corpsmen with 3rd Med Bn, 3rd MLG, III MEF came together to celebrate the birthday with a ceremonial cake cutting and birthday message reading from 3rd LE Bn senior enlisted advisor 1st Sgt. Derrick Benbow. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Andy Martinez)