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MISSION III Marine Expeditionary Force, as the Marine Corps’ forward-deployed Air-Ground-Logistics-Base Team, is a Force in Readiness able to deploy rapidly by any and all means and conduct operations from Special Purpose MAGTF through MEU, MEB and MEF, across the spectrum from Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief to Amphibious Assault and High Intensity Combat. III MEF maintains a forward presence in Japan and Asia to support the U.S. – Japan Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security and our other alliance relationships. III MEF conducts combined operations and training throughout the region in support of our National Security Strategy for Theater Security Cooperation. HISTORY The United States 3rd Marine Expeditionary Force was originally activated in 1942 , and took part in the struggle against the Japanese Empire during World War II . It took part in some of the bloodiest battles in the Pacific , including invading the Japanese islands of Iwo Jima and Okinawa . Demobilised from occupying Okinawa soon after the Second World War, the force was reactivated to serve in the Vietnam War in 1965 . From 1966 to 1970, during its Vietnam service, III MEF was renamed III Marine Amphibious Corps ('''III MAF'''). Redeployed to a permanent forward base on Okinawa in 1988 , the III Marine Expeditionary Force helps to fulfill the 1952 United States treaty obligation to defend Japan. Since the end of the Cold War , the Marines of this Expeditionary Force served in 1990 Operation "Desert Shield" to help protect Saudi Arabia . More recently the marines have also engaged in humanitarian work, such as evacuating civilians in the Philippines following the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991 , and providing disaster relief in the Japanese city of Kobe following a devastating Earthquake in January 1995 . MAJOR SUBORDINATE COMMANDS
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