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Video by Lance Cpl. Christopher Lape

Humanitarian Assistance Operations: HAST & FHA

31st Marine Expeditionary Unit

Dec. 5, 2022 | 1:45

U.S. Marines with Combat Logistics Battalion 31, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, conduct humanitarian assistance surveillance team training and foreign humanitarian aid training on Camp Hansen and Kin Blue, Okinawa, Japan, Dec. 1 and 5, 2022. A HAST evaluates the conditions of an environment, approving select locations for the FHA team to prepare for emergency situations and provide support to a foreign nation after a natural disaster. The 31st MEU, the Marine Corps’ only continuously forward-deployed MEU, provides a ready and lethal force ready to perform a wide range of military operations as the premier crisis response force in the Indo-Pacific. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Christopher R. Lape)