Throughout the month of July, approximately 6,000 U.S. Marines from I Marine Expeditionary Force are dispersed across Australia, the Federated States of Micronesia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, and the Republic of Palau as they participate in a wide range of exercises, community projects, key leader engagements, and subject matter expert exchanges. These deployments collectively demonstrate I MEF’s commitment to fostering interoperability and relationships with allies and partners in the Western Pacific, refining and validating forward deployment capabilities, and testing emerging service and unit-level concepts...