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U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Leilana TupuaRodriguez receives the Jim Kallstrom Award for her bravery while deployed with the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, supporting evacuations following the bombing in Kabul that took the lives of 13 service members in August 2021. TupuaRodriguez is currently a criminal investigator with Criminal Investigation Division, Provost Marshal’s Office, Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, where she received the award, Aug. 29, 2022 (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Pedro Arroyo Jr.)
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U.S. Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Austin Renforth, Commanding General of Marine Air Ground Task Force Training Command, Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center (MCAGCC), gives his coin to Marine Sgt. Leilana TupuaRodriguez after presenting her with the Jim Kallstrom Award for bravery at the Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, California, Aug. 29, 2022. TupuaRodriguez, a native of Bremerton, Washington, received the award for her bravery while deployed with the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, supporting evacuations in August 2021 during the bombing in Kabul that took the life of 13 service members. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Luis Aguilar)
U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Leilana TupuaRodriguez, right, receives a handshake from U.S. Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Austin Renforth, Commanding General of Marine Air Ground Task Force Training Command, Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center (MCAGCC), after receiving the Jim Kallstrom Award for bravery, supporting evacuations following the bombing in Kabul that took the lives of 13 service members in August 2021. TupuaRodriguez, a native of Bremerton, Washington, serves as a criminal investigator with Criminal Investigation Division, Provost Marshal’s Office, MCAGCC, where she received the award, Aug. 29, 2022. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Pedro Arroyo Jr.)
U.S. Marines with Tactical Training and Exercise Control Group (TTECG) conduct training with 5G-enabled devices at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center (MCAGCC), Twentynine Palms, Aug 16, 2022. A discrete 5G network was designed, coordinated, and tested at MCAGCC to enhance TTECG’s ability to communicate and adjudicate during Service Level Training Exercises. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Isaiah Brummett)
U.S. Marines and government employees with Tactical Training and Exercise Control Group (TTECG), participate in a familiarization brief with 5G-enabled devices at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center (MCAGCC), Twentynine Palms, Aug 16, 2022. A discrete 5G network was designed, coordinated, and tested at MCAGCC to enhance TTECG’s ability to communicate and adjudicate during Service-Level Training Exercises. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Isaiah Brummett)
U.S. Marines with Tactical Training and Exercise Control Group (TTECG), familiarize themselves with 5G-enabled devices at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center (MCAGCC), Twentynine Palms, Aug 16, 2022. A discrete 5G network was designed, coordinated, and tested at MCAGCC to enhance TTECG’s ability to communicate and adjudicate during Service Level Training Exercises. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Isaiah Brummett)
U.S. Marine Corps Maj. Michael Furr, the light attack helicopter squadron training leader, and Maj. Kevin Lee, a C2 systems representative, with Tactical Training and Exercise Control Group (TTECG), get hands-on with 5G enabled devices at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center (MCAGCC), Twentynine Palms, Aug 16, 2022. A discrete 5G network was designed, coordinated, and tested at MCAGCC to enhance TTECG’s ability to communicate and adjudicate during Service Level Training Exercises. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Isaiah Brummett)
U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Jesse Rushing, a transmission systems operator with Headquarters Battalion, Marine Air Ground Task Force Training Command, Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center (MCAGCC) installs a 5G antenna in preparation for a 5G network demonstration at MCAGCC, Twentynine Palms, California, Aug. 15, 2022. The discrete 5G network was designed, coordinated, and tested at MCAGCC to explore concepts that may enhance Tactical Training and Exercise Control Group’s ability to communicate and adjudicate during Service Level Training Exercises. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Pfc. Ryan Kennelly)
U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Jesse Rushing, transmission systems operator with Headquarters Battalion, Marine Air Ground Task Force Training Command, Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center (MCAGCC) installs a 5G antenna in preparation for a 5G network demonstration at MCAGCC, Twentynine Palms, California, Aug. 15, 2022. The discrete 5G network was designed, coordinated, and tested at MCAGCC to explore concepts that may enhance Tactical Training and Exercise Control Group’s ability to communicate and adjudicate during Service Level Training Exercises. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Pfc. Ryan Kennelly)
U.S. Marine Corps government employees with Headquarters Battalion, Marine Air Ground Task Force Training Command, Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center (MCAGCC) raise a 5G tower in preparation for a 5G network demonstration at MCAGCC, Twentynine Palms, California, Aug. 15, 2022. The discrete 5G network was designed, coordinated, and tested at MCAGCC to explore concepts that may enhance Tactical Training and Exercise Control Group’s ability to communicate and adjudicate during Service Level Training Exercises. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Pfc. Ryan Kennelly)
U.S. Marines with Tactical Training and Exercise Control Group, and a French Foreign Legionnaire coordinate unmanned aerial counter-reconnaissance efforts during Adversary Force Exercise 3-22 at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, California, April 26, 2022. During each Service-Level Training Exercise, the adversary force is provided with advanced equipment from the Office of Naval Research to test emerging technology for effectiveness in the multi-domain, force-on-force environment. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Shane T. Beaubien)
A French Foreign Legionnaire fires his FN Herstal MAG 58 machine gun during Adversary Force Exercise 3-22 at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, California, April 26, 2022. The Legionnaires defended a notional forward operating base U.S. Marines were using to test emerging intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance technologies. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Shane T. Beaubien)
U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Alexis Diaz, an opposing force team leader (Right), and Staff Sgt. Josiah Sullivan, a combat engineer with Tactical Training and Exercise Control Group prepare a small remote-controlled all-terrain vehicle equipped with a M240B Machine Gun automated turret during Adversary Force Exercise 3-22 at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, California, April 26, 2022. During each Service Level Training Exercise, the adversary force is provided with advanced equipment from the Office of Naval Research to test emerging technology for effectiveness in the multi-domain, force-on-force environment. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Shane T. Beaubien)
U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Carmine Mancini, an opposing force team leader with Tactical Training and Exercise Control Group, services an FLW 200 Remote Weapon Station outfitted with a Browning M2 .50 caliber machine gun during Adversary Force Exercise 3-22 at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, California, April 26, 2022. During each Service-Level Training Exercise, the adversary force is augmented with advanced equipment from the Office of Naval Research to test emerging technology to understand what is effective in the multi-domain force-on-force exercise environment. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Shane T. Beaubien)
Marine Corps Logistics Operations Group, Marine Air Ground Task Force Training Command, hosted Exercise Maltese Dragon from Aug. 15 to Aug. 26, 2022 at MCAGCC. Maltese Dragon was designed by the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory to inform the Expeditionary Advanced Basing Operations concept, and examine capabilities, capacities, authorities, and responsibilities assigned to Marine Logistics Support Group - Okinawa from campaigning to early phase maneuver during conflict with a peer adversary...
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U.S. Marines with 3rd Marine Littoral Regiment and Marine Corps Tactics and Operations Group concluded Exercise Spartan Trident, a three-part exercise series that facilitated the development and refinement of tactics, techniques, and procedures required to serve as the inaugural Marine Littoral Regiment...
“Don’t let your accomplishments define you. If you let one define you, then you will become that very thing forever. Always keep climbing for more,” said U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Nahla Beard. Beard has been stationed at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan since 2019. Beard is of Iranian descent; her parents emigrated from Iran to the U.S. when they were in their 20's to start a new life in California...
U.S. Marines with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 268 concluded their deployment with Marine Rotational Force – Darwin by executing a 6,100 mile transpacific flight from Australia to Hawaii, Sept. 13-18, 2022. The occasion marks the second time this year that MV-22 Ospreys from Marine Aircraft Group 24 successfully completed long-range maritime self-deployments...
“I have no ambition in this world but one, and that is to be a fireman. The position may, in the eyes of some, appear to be a lowly one; but we who know the work which the fireman has to do believe that his is a noble calling. Our proudest moment is to save lives. Under the impulse of such thoughts, the nobility of the occupation thrills us and stimulates us to do deeds of daring, even of supreme sacrifice.”
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U.S. Marine Corps Maj. Jonathan Pickup, intelligence lead with Tactical Training and Exercise Control Group, Headquarters Battalion, Marine Air Ground Task Force Training Command, Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, and Capt. Christopher Teska, company commander with Company B, 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, speak on the Marine Corps renewed focus on Reconnaissance/Counter-Reconnaissance (RXR), Aug.12, 2022. RXR training hones Marines' capability to operate forward within an adversary’s weapons engagement zone to provide integrated deterrence by providing commanders options to fight for information across all domains, hold adversarial targets at risk, and provide critical links for naval and joint fires. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Shane T. Beaubien, Lance Cpl. Luis Aguilar, Lance Cpl. Andrew Bray, and Lance Cpl. Joshua Sechser)
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