Lance Cpl. Michael King, a Range/Training Areas Maintenance Section worker, saws plywood to be used for constructing a trench at Combat Center Range 400 Jan. 15. Units participating in Mojave Viper, the base’s 30-day pre-deployment training package, use Range 400 to practice coordinating platoon and company-sized attacks against enemy objectives using a combined force of infantry, mortars and machine guns. RTAMS maintains these ranges and began duplicating them Dec. 11 so multiple infantry battalions can train simultaneously. - Lance Cpl. Michael King, a Range/Training Areas Maintenance Section worker, saws plywood to be used for constructing a trench at Combat Center Range 400 Jan. 15. Units participating in Mojave Viper, the base’s 30-day pre-deployment training package, use Range 400 to practice coordinating platoon and company-sized attacks against enemy objectives using a combined force of infantry, mortars and machine guns. RTAMS maintains these ranges and began duplicating them Dec. 11 so multiple infantry battalions can train simultaneously.
Country music singer Darryl Worley and his band wrap up an evening of live musical entertainment during the Somebody Loves You tour Oct. 25 at the Combat Center’s Victory Field. Worley, a Pyburn, Tenn., native, took the stage after the Christian heavy metal band Disciple at the event. His performance entertained an audience of more than 13,000 people and provided a transition between Disciple’s face-melting guitar licks and the final sermon, delivered by Raul Ries, a former Marine and pastor at the Cavalry Chapel in Diamond Bar, Calif. - Country music singer Darryl Worley and his band wrap up an evening of live musical entertainment during the Somebody Loves You tour Oct. 25 at the Combat Center’s Victory Field. Worley, a Pyburn, Tenn., native, took the stage after the Christian heavy metal band Disciple at the event. His performance entertained an audience of more than 13,000 people and provided a transition between Disciple’s face-melting guitar licks and the final sermon, delivered by Raul Ries, a former Marine and pastor at the Cavalry Chapel in Diamond Bar, Calif.
Marines from Company A, 1st Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment participate in the final exercise of the Enhanced Company Operations Limited Objective Experiments 2 at the Combat Center’s Marine Corps Tactics and Operations Group Building Aug. 21. The main focus of the ECO LOE-2 was to train Marines in company level operations due to battlefield missions becoming larger and more distributed. - Marines from Company A, 1st Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment participate in the final exercise of the Enhanced Company Operations Limited Objective Experiments 2 at the Combat Center’s Marine Corps Tactics and Operations Group Building Aug. 21. The main focus of the ECO LOE-2 was to train Marines in company level operations due to battlefield missions becoming larger and more distributed.
Erica McNicoll, wife of 1st Lt. Michael McNicoll, platoon commander with Weapons Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, participates in the “I Ran to Afghanistan” program with her twin daughters, Ashley and Kaitlyn, to show support to her husband and other 2/7 Marines and sailors during their deployment scheduled to end this fall. - Erica McNicoll, wife of 1st Lt. Michael McNicoll, platoon commander with Weapons Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, participates in the “I Ran to Afghanistan” program with her twin daughters, Ashley and Kaitlyn, to show support to her husband and other 2/7 Marines and sailors during their deployment scheduled to end this fall.