Videos

U.S. Armed Forces and partner nations conduct a noncombatant evacuation operation during Exercise Cobra Gold at Utapao Airport, Rayong province, Thailand, March 3, 2024. Cobra Gold 2024 consistently focuses on humanitarian civic action, community engagement, and medical activities conducted during the exercise to support the needs and humanitarian interests of civilian populations around the region. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Corporal Brandon Marrero)

U.S. Marines with Marine Rotational Force – Darwin 23 participate in an embassy reinforcement scenario at Mount Bundey Training Area, May 25, 2023. MRF-D is postured and ready to respond to crisis and contingency in the region, contributing to a safe and prosperous Indo-Pacific. (U.S. Marine Corps Photo by Lance Cpl. Brayden Daniel)

U.S. Marines with Combat Logistics Battalion 5, 1st Marine Logistics Group supported Exercise Croix du Sud 2023 in New Caledonia with a non-combatant evacuation operations team, while also enhancing the Marine Corps’ ability to provide logistical support to the joint force and U.S. Allies and partners in future austere operations. Exercise Croix du Sud is the New Caledonian Armed Forces’ Combined Joint Task Force certification event with training objectives focused on a Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Response, Non-combatant Evacuation Operations, and Stability and Support Operations scenario in Oceania with desired effects focused on enhancing military-military, civil-military, and joint/multinational coordination in the region during crisis response. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Staff Sgt. Dana Beesley)

U.S. Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Abigail Hamilton and U.S. Marines and Sailors assigned to the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit, conduct a Non-Combatant Evacuation Operation as part of Exercise Cobra Gold in Chonburi province, Kingdom of Thailand, March 5, 2023. Participating nations conducted operations simultaneously across multiple locations to refine command and control processes while fostering interoperability. Cobra Gold, now in its 42nd year, is a Thai-U.S. co-sponsored training event that builds on the long-standing friendship between the two allied nations and brings together a robust multinational force to promote regional peace and security in support of a free and open Indo-Pacific. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Brendan Custer)

U.S. Marines and Sailors with Task Force Koa Moana 16-4 integrated with the French Army and the Republic of Fiji Military Forces for the French Army obstacle courses during Croix Du Sud in Plum, New Caledonia Nov. 12, 2016. Croix Du Sud is a multi-national, humanitarian assistance disaster relief and non-combatant evacuation operation exercise conducted every two years to prepare nations in the event of a cyclone in the South Pacific. The Koa Moana exercise seeks to enhance senior military leader engagements between allied and partner nations in the Pacific with a collective interest in military-to-military relations. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Quavaungh S. Pointer)

ARTA TRAINING RANGE, Djibouti (Oct. 20, 2015) U.S. Marines with the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit participate in various events during a desert survival and tactics course. Elements of the 15th MEU trained with the 5th Overseas Combined Arms Regiment (RIAOM) in Djibouti in order to improve interoperability between the MEU and the French military. (U.S. Marine Corps motion media by Sgt. Steve H. Lopez/Released) Interview: Cpl. Daniel Clark, Section Leader, Delta Company, 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Detachment, Battalion Landing Team 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit

Marines with 1st Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, along with Japanese and Thai soldiers, conducted a non-combatant Evacuation Operation during exercise Cobra Gold 15, Feb. 15, 2015. A NEO is an operation to evacuate civilians from another country, generally do to a natural disaster. Includes sound bites from Capt. Hector Contreras, Alpha Company commander, 1st Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment. Hometown: La Mirada, Calif. and CWO Donald Johnson, Chemical Biological Radiological and Nuclear Officer, 1st Battalion, 1st Marines. Hometown: Ventura, Calif. Also available in high definition.