330-CFD-DM-SC-87-12218: Equipment stands on the beachfront at the 24th Marine Amphibious Unit's encampment, ready to be loaded onto utility landing craft. The loading operations are being conducted prior to the unit's departure from Beirut. The Marines have been deployed in Lebanon as part of a multi-national peacekeeping force following confrontation between Israeli forces and the Palestine Liberation Organization, 4/1/1983.    GYSGT R.D. Lucas.   (OPA-NARA II-8/20/2015).
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