U.S. Marines assigned to Battalion Landing Team 3/2,

U.S. Marines assigned to Battalion Landing Team 3/2, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), tie knots while securing a pelican case to be belayed while conducting high rope suspension training in a static MV-22B Osprey on USS Kearsarge (LHD 3), at sea, July 23, 2013. The 26th MEU is a Marine Air-Ground Task Force forward-deployed to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility aboard the Kearsarge Amphibious Ready Group serving as a sea-based, expeditionary crisis response force capable of conducting amphibious operations across the full range of military operations. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Christopher Q. Stone, 26th MEU Combat Camera/Released)