Royal Thai soldiers and medics respond to a notional

Royal Thai soldiers and medics respond to a notional casualty during a multinational non-combatant evacuation operation as part of exercise Cobra Gold 2013 here, Feb. 17. Soldiers of Thailand, Japan, Indonesia, and Malaysia worked alongside Marines and Sailors of the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit to process more than 170 multinational citizens through security and screening stations before evacuating them via helicopter to the USS Bonhomme Richard. Cobra Gold is the largest multinational exercise in the Asia-Pacific and helps develop the ability of all participants to effectively conduct humanitarian assistance and disaster relief operations. The 31st MEU is the only continuously forward-deployed MEU and is the