A U.S. Sailor assigned to the USS Kearsarge (LHD 3), watches a landing craft, air cushion vessel assigned to the USS Kearsarge, in the well deck, return from offloading U.S. Marines assigned to the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) in Djibouti, July 31, 2013. The 26th MEU is a Marine Air-Ground Task Force forward-deployed to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility aboard the Kearsarge Amphibious Ready Group serving as a sea-based, expeditionary crisis response force capable of conducting amphibious operations across the full range of military operations. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Kyle N. Runnels/Released)