Apr 13 2023
U.S. Marines with 3d Marine Expeditionary Brigade alongside Philippine Airmen, conduct humanitarian assistance operations, evacuating displaced personnel on a C-130 aircraft and evacuating displaced personnel, on Villamor Air Base, Republic of the Philippines, 12 November 2013. U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Pacific maintains significant capability forward deployed throughout the Asia-Pacific region ready to provide humanitarian assistance and disaster relief. Without forward deployed forces, rapid and fully capable deployments to such disasters like Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda would not be possible. (U.S. Marine Corps Motion Imagery by Sgt. John C. Lamb)