U.S. Marine Corps Col. Patrick Reynolds, a Bronx, New York native, outgoing commanding officer of Marine Corps Logistics and Operations Group, Marine Air-Ground Task Force Training Command, Marine Corps Air-Ground Combat Center, is passed the...
U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Nicholas Rastelli, a Toms River, New Jersey native, supply chief with Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, poses for a photo at Marine Corps Air-Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, California, June 25,...
U.S. Marine Corps Pfc. James West, a Pelion, South Carolina native, machine gunner with the Heavy Machine Guns platoon, 1st Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, executes a maneuver drill at Marine Corps Air-Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms,...
U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. JC Wilkinson, a Saint George, Utah native, infantry Marine with 3rd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment (REIN), 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, and Cpl. Alexander Crider, a Florence, Colorado native, infantry Marine with...
U.S. Marine Corps Col. David Hart, a Unity, New Hampshire native, director of Tactical Training and Exercise Control Group, Marine Air-Ground Task Force Training Command, Marine Corps Air-Ground Combat Center, welcomes participants of Integrated...
U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Chase Johnson, a Houston, Texas native, team leader with the Provost Marshal's Office Special Reaction Team, Marine Air-Ground Task Force Training Command, Marine Corps Air-Ground Combat Center, center, observes a rifle...
U.S. Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt. Michael Rialmo, environmental team leader with Marine Corps Support Facility New Orleans, Louisiana, feeds a desert tortoise at the Tortoise Research and Captive Rearing Site, Marine Corps Air-Ground Combat Center,...
U.S. Marine Corps Pfc. Colin McCartney, an Excelsior Spring, Missouri native, student with Low Altitude Air Defense Training Section, Air Control Training Squadron, Training Command, fires a FIM-92 Stinger during a stinger live-fire exercise as...
U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Jesus Ramos, a San Antonio, Texas native, right, and Lance Cpl. Stephen Beaver, a Sellersburg, Indiana native, both expeditionary firefighting and rescue specialists with Marine Wing Support Squadron 271, Marine Aircraft Group...
U.S. Marines with 2nd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, notionally fire a 60 mm mortar during a Marine Air-Ground Task Force Warfighting Exercise as part of Service Level Training Exercise 2-24 at Range 220, Marine Corps...
It was the 1950s. Tensions were rising overseas and the U.S. Marine Corps base at Camp Pendleton, California, was running out of room to provide the necessary training to be mission ready. The Marine Corps began looking for other locations to conduct training and exercises on a large scale, to accommodate live-fire training with artillery and rockets. A dormant training area 130 miles inland, previously used by the U.S. Navy and U.S. Army Air Corps, was selected to be used for a new Marine Corps Installation, then known as Camp Detachment Marine Corps Training Center, Twentynine Palms.
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MARINE CORPS AIR-GROUND COMBAT CENTER, Calif. – Marine Corps Hospitality Services, formerly part of Marine Corps Community Services, is now an independent organization dedicated to providing exceptional lodging services for service members and their families, not only at Marine Corps Air-Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, California, but across the Marine Corps as well.
Joint military exercises involving multiple U.S. military branches play an important role in strengthening our national security and maintaining readiness. Such was the case for the collaboration between the U.S. Air Force’s 53rd Combat Airfield Operations Squadron from Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, and U.S. Marine Corps’ Marine Air Control Squadron 2 unit from Cherry Point, North Carolina, for an exercise at the Marine Air Ground Task Force Training Command and Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, California, Jan. 5 - Feb. 24, 2024.
Marine Air-Ground Task Force Training Command conducted an inaugural Inventory Collective Event for 2nd Marine Regiment’s Integrated Training Exercise Task Force to improve planning, coordination, and understanding of capabilities in a distributed Live Virtual Constructive Training Environment in preparation for Service Level Training Exercise 5-24.