A U.S. Marine in Fox Company, 2nd Battalion 4th Marines, with the Battalion Landing Team, assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), signals in the main assault wave to come in during a boat raid for Marine Expeditionary Unit Exercise(MEUX) on Kin Blue Beach, Okinawa, Japan, June 08th, 2013. MEUX is a pre-deployment exercise the MEU undergoes to ensure the MEU is capable to carry out any training or contingency missions that might occur during the current deployment. (USMC photo by LCpl T.S. Dietrich, 31st MEU Combat Camera)