Nevada native, U.S. Marine deploys to Australia
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U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Alondra Perez, warehouse management specialist, Marine Rotational Force – Darwin, participates in the planning of MRF-D 20.2 on Royal Australian Air Force Base Darwin, in Darwin, NT, Australia, June 10, 2020. A Las Vegas native, Perez keeps accountability and manages the distribution process of gear needed throughout MRF-D.
“I am the oldest child in my family so I already had that pressure of being the role model and being the best, so I couldn’t join any of the other branches. I was told many times when I was in the process of joining that I wouldn’t be able to do it, girls couldn’t do this and that. All the females that I know in the Marine Corps still get it sometimes. I’m the type of person that says, 'Oh [you] bet, now I want to do it because you don’t think I can.' That’s the biggest reason why I joined. But the Marine Corps was definitely something that I needed. With everything I was going through before I joined, without the Marine Corps, my life would’ve gone a completely different way.”
MRF-D enables U.S. Marines and the ADF to enhance regional security, strengthen alliances, and partnerships, and increase the ability to rapidly respond to crises throughout the region.
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