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1st Lt. Matthew Kitagawa, executive officer with Alpha Company, Battalion Landing Team, 1st Battalion, 4th Marines, loads a magazine during pistol marksmanship qualification aboard the dock landing ship USS Ashland (LSD 48), underway in the South China Sea, Feb. 20, 2019. Kitagawa, a native of Richfield, Minnesota, commissioned in May 2016 after graduating from the University of Minnesota. Alpha Company Marines are the small boat raid specialists for BLT 1/4, the Ground Combat Element for the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit. The 31st MEU, the Marine Corps’ only continuously forward-deployed MEU partnering with the Wasp Amphibious Ready Group, provides a flexible and lethal force ready to perform a wide range of military operations as the premier crisis response force in the Indo-Pacific region. (Official Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Mackenzie Carter/Released)
| Date Taken: | 02.20.2019 |
| Date Posted: | 02.23.2019 17:22 |
| Photo ID: | 5125927 |
| VIRIN: | 190220-M-KK705-028 |
| Resolution: | 5347x3565 |
| Size: | 10.7 MB |
| Location: | AT SEA, USPACOM, AT SEA |
| Web Views: | 81 |
| Downloads: | 10 |
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