Marines and Sailors with the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit load boxes of food and mail onto the USS New York during a resupply here, April 19, 2012, during a short port visit in preparation for movement into the Mediterranean Sea. The 24th MEU is currently deployed with the Navy's Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group as a theater reserve and crisis response force capable of a variety of missions from full-scale combat operations to humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.