A Marine with the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit’s Maritime Raid Force conducts fast-rope training aboard the USS New York, Nov. 29, 2012. The 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit is deployed with the Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group in the 6th Fleet area of responsibility serving as an expeditionary crisis response force capable of a variety of missions from full-scale combat to evacuations and humanitarian assistance.