U.S. Marines with Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion,

U.S. Marines with Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), return to the USS Bataan (LHD 5) via landing craft, air cushion after completing a tactical recovery of aircraft and personnel exercise. The 22nd MEU is deployed with the Bataan Amphibious Ready Group as a theater reserve and crisis response force throughout U.S. Central Command and the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Austin Hazard/Released)