Amid rising threats, the Corps flexes to the Pacific
By: Shawn Snow   1 day ago
The Corps is getting underway with one of its biggest redistribution of forces since World War II as thousands of Marines are shifting to the Pacific and moving around the region in an effort to prepare to counter rising threats from China to North Korea.
At any one time there are 35,000 Marines forward deployed around the globe — 31,000 of those are with III Marine Expeditionary Force spread throughout the Pacific, and 22,000 of those are centrally located on the Japanese Island of Okinawa.
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