U.S. Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Tyler Schuster, helicopter crew chief, with Marine Light Helicopter Attack Squadron 773, Marine Aircraft Group 49, 4th Marine Aircraft Wing, conducts a communications check in a Bell UH-1Y Venom helicopter before participating in the Fire Support Coordination Exercise at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, California, July 21, 2021. FSCEX is designed to challenge the Marine Air Ground Task Force, other U.S. Forces and partner nations military’s ability to coordinate a wide range of high caliber and explosive ordnance from multiple ground and air platforms, ensuring success on a modern battlefield. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Joshua Sechser)
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U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Reginald Smith, helicopter aircrew Marine, Marine Light Helicopter Attack Squadron 773, Marine Aircraft Group 49, 4th Marine Aircraft Wing, checks his watch while riding in a Bell UH-1Y Venom helicopter during Fire Support Coordination Exercise at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, California, July 21, 2021. FSCEX is designed to challenge the Marine Air Ground Task Force, other U.S. Forces and partner nations military’s ability to coordinate a wide range of high caliber and explosive ordnance from multiple ground and air platforms, ensuring success on a modern battlefield. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Joshua Sechser)
U.S. Marines with Marine Light Helicopter Attack Squadron 773, Marine Aircraft Group 49, 4th Marine Aircraft Wing, prepare a Bell UH-1Y Venom helicopter for takeoff before beginning Fire Support Coordination Exercise at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, California, July 21, 2021. FSCEX is designed to challenge the Marine Air Ground Task Force, other U.S. Forces, and partner nation military’s ability to coordinate a wide range of high caliber and explosive ordnance from multiple ground and air platforms, ensuring success on a modern battlefield. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Joshua Sechser)
U.S. Marine Corps Capt. David Few, pilot, Marine Light Helicopter Attack Squadron 773, Marine Aircraft Group 49, 4th Marine Aircraft Wing, takes a note while co-piloting a Bell UH-1Y Venom helicopter during Fire Support Coordination Exercise at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, California, July 21, 2021. FSCEX is designed to challenge the Marine Air Ground Task Force, other U.S. Forces and partner nations military’s ability to coordinate a wide range of high caliber and explosive ordnance from multiple ground and air platforms, ensuring success on a modern battlefield. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Joshua Sechser)
U.S. Marines with Marine Light Helicopter Attack Squadron 773, Marine Aircraft Group 49, 4th Marine Aircraft Wing, fly a Bell AH-1Z Viper helicopter during Fire Support Coordination Exercise at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, California, July 21, 2021. FSCEX is designed to challenge the Marine Air Ground Task Force, other U.S. Forces and partner nations military’s ability to coordinate a wide range of high caliber and explosive ordnance from multiple ground and air platforms, ensuring success on a modern battlefield. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Joshua Sechser)
U.S. Marines with Marine Corps Martial Arts Instructors Course 2-21 conduct integrated weapons free-sparring during a culminating training event at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, California, June 24, 2021. MAIC is a 3-week-long training event that qualifies Marines to lead and instruct Marine Corps Martial Arts. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Joshua Sechser)
U.S. Marines with Marine Corps Martial Arts Instructors Course 2-21 ground fight during a culminating training event at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, California, June 24, 2021. MAIC is a 3-week-long training event that qualifies Marines to lead and instruct Marine Corps Martial Arts. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Joshua Sechser)
U.S. Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Tyler Thomas, Martial Arts Instructor Trainer, 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, conducts a discussion on discipline with U.S. Marines at Marine Corps Martial Arts Instructors Course 2-21 during a culminating training event at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, California, June 24, 2021. MAIC is a 3-week-long training event that qualifies Marines to lead and instruct Marine Corps Martial Arts. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Joshua Sechser)
From left, U.S. Marine Corps 1st Lt. Ariel Magalong, officer in charge, Special Reaction Team, Provost Marshal’s Office, Marine Air Ground Task Force Training Command, U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Zouve Holliman, team commander, Special Reaction Team, Provost Marshal’s Office, Marine Air Ground Task Force Training Command and U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Thomas Glick, Electronics Warfare Specialist, Tactical Training Exercise Control Group, Headquarters Battalion, Marine Air Ground Task Force Training Command, hold their awards after a graduation ceremony at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, California, June 25, 2021. MAIC is a 3-week-long training event that qualifies Marines to lead and instruct Marine Corps Martial Arts. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Joshua Sechser)
U.S. Marines and sailors with the 2nd Marine Logistics Group and Expeditionary Strike Group 2 took part in a rehearsal for the upcoming hurricane season which fulfilled Defense Support of Civil Authorities requirements at Naval Base Norfolk in Norfolk, Virginia, from July 19 to 23, 2021. The exercise certified the rapid embarkation of Marines and sailors with the II MEF Maritime DSCA Task Force aboard the Norfolk-based USS Arlington, a San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock, to validate deployment requirements in preparation for future destructive weather events along the East Coast.
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The Marine Corps continually works to improve and address the complexities of behavioral health within its ranks as well as the resources available to Marines. One such way is through the implementation of the Embedded Preventive Behavioral Health Capability or EPBHC. EPBHC’s serve as the subject matter expert to the commander on unit wide coordination for early prevention through feedback on behavioral health programs, integrating behavioral health system stakeholders; helping develop, implement and monitor policies, programs, and strategic communications; and identifying unit-wide behavioral health patterns.
Throughout history, the Marine Corps has used the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System in order to gain an advantage against its adversaries. With the Commandant’s Planning Guidance and Force Design, it is vital that III Marine Expeditionary Force utilize HIMARS to maintain force readiness throughout the Indo-Pacific and be ready to fight at a moment’s notice. In 1996, Lockheed Martin developed the first HIMARS. After years of testing and development, in 2005 the Marine Corps began integrating them into units for training exercises...
The Peruvian Marine Corps hosted the second annual Multinational Amphibious Planners Conference at the new International Amphibious Training Center on July 16. Partner nation naval infantry representatives from Peru, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Uruguay, and the United States gathered at the newly established International Amphibious Training Center to share experiences, tactics, and lessons learned related to amphibious operations...
Orders not heard aren't followed. Calls for fire incapable of being transmitted are never filled. Marines who can’t communicate effectively lose lives in combat. As the U.S. Marine Corps undergoes a force restructure to modernize for the next era, Marines in the radio transmissions occupational field aren’t without their own improvements. Marines from various units across 2nd Marine Division participated in the 2nd MARDIV High-Frequency Competition throughout the East Coast from July 12-16. The competition enhanced HF transmission proficiency and capabilities to prepare Marines for future expeditionary conflicts where areas fought in may either be contested or degraded...
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U.S. Marines with 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, and Marines with Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron One, Marine Air Ground Task Force Training Command, conduct Assault Support Training 3 and 4 while participating in Weapons and Tactics Instructor (WTI) Course 2-21, which runs concurrently with Integrated Training Exercise (ITX) 3-21 at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, California, April 2021. The purpose of WTI is to train the next generation of Weapons and Tactics Instructors who will return to their squadrons as experts in tactical flight planning and execution. The purpose of ITX is to create a challenging, realistic training environment that produces combat-ready forces capable of operating as a Marine Air Ground Task Force. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Colton Brownlee and Lance Cpl. Shane T. Beaubien)
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