Lt. Col. Christopher D. Tolliver addresses Marines during a Change of Command ceremony at Camp Hansen, Okinawa, Japan, April 12, 2019. During the ceremony, Capt. Michael Bruce relinquished command to 1st Lt. Jessi Wieck – the battery is currently forward-deployed to Okinawa as the artillery support for Battalion Landing Team, 1st Battalion, 4th Marines, the Ground Combat Element for the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit. Wieck, the first female to command a Marine artillery battery, is a native of Brooklyn, Iowa – she commissioned in January 2016 after graduating from University of Iowa in Iowa City. Bruce, a native of North Reading, Massachusetts, commissioned in 2010 after graduating from Northeastern University in Boston. The 31st MEU, the Marine Corps’ only continuously forward-deployed MEU, 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. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Tanner D. Lambert /Released)
Date Taken: | 04.12.2019 |
Date Posted: | 04.12.2019 09:55 |
Photo ID: | 5260670 |
VIRIN: | 190412-M-UR048-248 |
Resolution: | 5760x3840 |
Size: | 3.73 MB |
Location: | CAMP HANSEN, OKINAWA, JP |
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