U.S. Marines and Sailors assigned to Alpha Company, Battalion Landing Team, 1st Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit conduct an awards ceremony aboard the amphibious transport dock USS New Orleans (LPD 18) in the Arabian Sea March 9, 2014. The 13th MEU was deployed with the Boxer Amphibious Ready Group as a theater reserve and crisis response force throughout the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility.