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Tag: ITX 5-17

Marines with the engineer platoon for Marine Wing Support Squadron 272, construct an observation post aboard the Combat Center during Integrated Training Exercise 5-17, July 29, 2017. MWSS-272 is supporting the Aviation Combat Element of the ITX. The ACE conducts offensive, defensive, and all other air operations to support the MAGTF mission . (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Medina Ayala-Lo) - Marines with the engineer platoon for Marine Wing Support Squadron 272, construct an observation post aboard the Combat Center during Integrated Training Exercise 5-17, July 29, 2017. MWSS-272 is supporting the Aviation Combat Element of the ITX. The ACE conducts offensive, defensive, and all other air operations to support the MAGTF mission . (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Medina Ayala-Lo)

‘Untouchables’ rise to the occasion during ITX 5-17

The Aviation Combat Element, or ACE, plays an invaluable role within the Marine Air Ground Task Force, conducting offensive, defensive, and all other air operations to support the MAGTF mission. Marine aviation provides the MAGTF with the operational flexibility it needs to accomplish its mission across the range of military operations such as delivering fires, facilitating integrated command and control, enhancing mobility and maneuver, providing force protection, sustaining combat power, and collecting intelligence. Majority of aircraft usage within the ACE is for close air support or to transport for the Ground Combat Element or Logistics Combat Element.

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Cpl. Christopher Stephens, mortarman, 1st Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, prepares rounds for Pfc. Thomas Curtis, mortarman, 1/1, during an individual training exercise at Range 410A aboard the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, Calif., July 25, 2017. 1/1 is based out of Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif. and is serving as part of the GCE during ITX 5-17. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Pfc. Margaret Gale) - Cpl. Christopher Stephens, mortarman, 1st Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, prepares rounds for Pfc. Thomas Curtis, mortarman, 1/1, during an individual training exercise at Range 410A aboard the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, Calif., July 25, 2017. 1/1 is based out of Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif. and is serving as part of the GCE during ITX 5-17. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Pfc. Margaret Gale)

‘First of the First’ prepare to fight

Marines with Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment from Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in Oceanside, Calif., conducted live-fire training exercises at range 410A in support of Integrated Training Exercise 5-17 aboard the Combat Center July 25, 2017.

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