Company I conducts long-range raid

PACIFIC OCEAN-Petty Officer 3rd Class Richard A. Reveles adjusts his glasses aboard USS Makin Island here before a long range helicopter raid Oct. 6. Reveles, a Bell Gardens, Calif., native, is a corpsman with the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit’s Battalion Landing Team 3/1. The unit embarked the amphibious assault ship Makin Island, the amphibious transport dock New Orleans and the dock landing ship Pearl Harbor in San Diego Sept. 28 and is participating in its final exercise before deploying in November., Cpl. Gene Allen Ainsworth III, 10/6/2011 10:01 AM

PACIFIC OCEAN-Lance Cpl. Manuel R. Morin, loads blank ammunition in USS Makin Island’s hangar here before a long range helicopter raid Oct. 6. Morin, a Houston native, serves with Battalion Landing Team 3/1, 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit. The unit embarked the amphibious assault ship Makin Island, the amphibious transport dock New Orleans and the dock landing ship Pearl Harbor in San Diego Sept. 28 and is participating in its final exercise before deploying in November., Cpl. Gene Allen Ainsworth III, 10/6/2011 10:09 AM

PASO ROBLES, Calif. -An AH-1Z Cobra with the 11th Marine Expeditionary Units aviation combat element, Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 268 (Reinforced), lifts off to support a training raid here Oct. 6. The unit embarked the anphibious assault ship Makin Island, the amphibious transport dock New Orleans and the dock landing ship Pearl Harbor in San Diego Sept. 28 and is participating in its final exercise before deploying in November., Cpl. Gene Allen Ainsworth III, 10/6/2011 1:12 PM

PASO ROBLES, Calif.-1st Sgt. Carey R. Wells takes accountability of his Marines before a helicopter training raid here Oct. 6. Wells, a Christchurch, New Zealand, native, serves as the first sergeant for Company I, Battalion Landing Team 3/1, 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit. The unit embarked the amphibious assault ship Makin Island, the amphibious transport dock New Orleans and the dock landing ship Pearl Harbor in San Diego Sept. 28 and is participating in its final exercise before deploying in November., Cpl. Gene Allen Ainsworth III, 10/6/2011 1:59 PM