31st Marine Expeditionary Unit

31st Marine Expeditionary Unit
31st MEU Crisis Response Force Insignia
Active	1 March 1967 – May 1985 9 September 1992 – present
Allegiance	United States
Branch	United States Marine Corps
Type	Marine Air Ground Task Force
Role	Forward-deployed expeditionary Crisis Response ForceMarine Air-Ground Task Force Crisis Response Force
Size	Around 2,200 Marines and Sailors
Part of	III Marine Expeditionary Force
Garrison/HQ	Camp Hansen, MCB Camp Butler
Nickname(s)	SAVAGE
Motto(s)	Ready, Partnered, Lethal
Anniversaries	Activated 1 March 1967
Engagements	Vietnam War Operation Union Operation Eagle Pull Operation Frequent Wind Multinational Force in Lebanon Operation Southern Watch Operation Desert Fox Operation Iraqi Freedom Operation Phantom Fury Operation Caring Response Operation Tomodachi
Website	https://www.31stmeu.marines.mil/
Commanders
Current commander	Colonel Matthew Danner

The 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (31st MEU) is one of seven Marine Expeditionary Units in existence in the United States Marine Corps. The Marine Expeditionary Unit is a Marine Air Ground Task Force with a strength of about 2,200 Marines and sailors. The 31st MEU consists of a company-sized command element, a battalion landing team (BLT), (an infantry battalion reinforced with artillery, amphibious vehicles and other attachments), a medium tiltrotor squadron (reinforced), (which includes detachments of short take-off, vertical landing airplanes and heavy, light, and attack helicopters), and a combat logistics battalion. The 31st MEU is based at Camp Hansen, Marine Corps Base Camp Smedley D. Butler, Okinawa, Japan. The 31st MEU is the only permanently forward-deployed MEU, and provides a flexible and lethal force ready to perform a wide range of military, humanitarian, and diplomatic operations as the premier crisis response force in the Indo-Pacific region.

The 31st MEU is the only MEU that retained a battalion landing team small boat capability to conduct raids.^[1][2]