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Demobilised from occupying Okinawa soon after the Second World War, the force was reactivated to serve in the Vietnam War in 1965. 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"See also: 2003 invasion of Iraq. The Persian Gulf War was a conflict between Iraq and a coalition force of 34 nations led by the United States. The war started with the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in August 1990. The result of the war was a decisive victory to help protect Saudi ArabiaThe Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is a country on the Arabian Peninsula. It borders Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen, with the Persian Gulf to its north-east and the Red Sea to its west. Al-Mamlakah al-'Arabiyah as-Sa'udiyah. More recently the marines have also engaged in humanitarian work, such as evacuating civilians in the PhilippinesThe Republic of the Philippines is an island nation consisting of an archipelago of 7,107 islands, lying in the tropical western Pacific Ocean about 100 kilometers southeast of mainland Asia. Spain (1521-1898) and the United States (1898-1946), colonized following the eruption of Mount PinatuboMount Pinatubo is an active volcano located on the island of Luzon in the Philippines. It most recently erupted on June 15, 1991. Mount Pinatubo lies at the intersection of the borders of the provinces of Zambales, Bataan, and Pampanga. Before the 1991 er in 19911991 like 2002, is a palindromic year. It also has the same calendar as 2002, including Easter on March 31. It is a common year starting on Tuesday. Events January January 2 Sharon Pratt Dixon is sworn in as mayor of Washington, DC becoming the first blac, and providing disaster relief in the Japanese city of Kobe following a devastating earthquakeAn earthquake is a trembling or shaking movement of the Earth's surface. Earthquakes typically result from the movement of faults, quasi-planar zones of deformation within its uppermost layers. The word earthquake is also widely used to indicate the sourc in January 1995.