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U.S. Marines, Sailors and their families cheer during a Fight Night event at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center (MCAGCC), Twentynine Palms, California, Sept. 23, 2022. Marine Corps Community Services hosted Fight Night for the service members and families stationed at MCAGCC to give them the opportunity to enjoy live entertainment closer to home. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Jonathan Willcox)

U.S. Marines, Sailors and their families cheer during a Fight Night event at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center (MCAGCC), Twentynine Palms, California, Sept. 23, 2022. Marine Corps Community Services hosted Fight Night for the service members and families stationed at MCAGCC to give them the opportunity to enjoy live entertainment closer to home. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Jonathan Willcox)

Photo by Lance Cpl. Jonathan Willcox

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U.S. Marine Corps Pfc. Joshua English, Low Altitude Air Defense (LAAD) Section, Marine Corps Communication Electronics School (MCCES), takes part in LAAD training at Led Mountain, Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, Calif., Jan. 14, 2019. The purpose of the exercise was to test the Stinger missiles and to qualify Marines with LAAD section, MCCES as part of their annual training. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Rachel K. Young)

U.S. Marine Corps Pfc. Joshua English, Low Altitude Air Defense (LAAD) Section, Marine Corps Communication Electronics School (MCCES), takes part in LAAD training at Led Mountain, Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, Calif., Jan. 14, 2019. The purpose of the exercise was to test the Stinger missiles and to qualify Marines with LAAD section, MCCES as part of their annual training. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Rachel K. Young)

Photo by Lance Cpl. Rachel Young

U.S. Marine role-players with Tactical Training and Exercise Control Group, Headquarters Battalion, Marine Air Ground Task Force Training Command, Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center (MCAGCC) Twentynine Palms advance through an urban environment during a 5G network demo. The discrete 5G network was designed, coordinated, and tested at MCAGCC to explore concepts that may enhance Tactical Training and Exercise Control Group ability to communicate and adjudicate during Service Level Training Exercises. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Jonathan Forrest)

U.S. Marine role-players with Tactical Training and Exercise Control Group, Headquarters Battalion, Marine Air Ground Task Force Training Command, Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center (MCAGCC) Twentynine Palms advance through an urban environment during a 5G network demo. The discrete 5G network was designed, coordinated, and tested at MCAGCC to explore concepts that may enhance Tactical Training and Exercise Control Group ability to communicate and adjudicate during Service Level Training Exercises. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Jonathan Forrest)

Photo by Cpl. Jonathan Forrest

U.S. Marine role-players with Tactical Training and Exercise Control Group, Headquarters Battalion, Marine Air Ground Task Force Training Command, Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center (MCAGCC) Twentynine Palms post security in an urban environment during a 5G network demo. The discrete 5G network was designed, coordinated, and tested at MCAGCC to explore concepts that may enhance Tactical Training and Exercise Control Group ability to communicate and adjudicate during Service Level Training Exercises. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Jonathan Forrest)

U.S. Marine role-players with Tactical Training and Exercise Control Group, Headquarters Battalion, Marine Air Ground Task Force Training Command, Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center (MCAGCC) Twentynine Palms post security in an urban environment during a 5G network demo. The discrete 5G network was designed, coordinated, and tested at MCAGCC to explore concepts that may enhance Tactical Training and Exercise Control Group ability to communicate and adjudicate during Service Level Training Exercises. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Jonathan Forrest)

Photo by Cpl. Jonathan Forrest

U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Jovanny Duran, a mountain warfare instructor with Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center (MCMWTC), Marine Air Ground Task Force Training Command, assists a Marine with 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, on the one-rope bridge during Mountain Exercise (MTX) 1-23 at MCMWTC, Bridgeport, California, Sept. 19, 2022. MTX is a month-long exercise designed to prepare units to survive and operate effectively in austere, mountainous terrain. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Shane T. Beaubien)

U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Jovanny Duran, a mountain warfare instructor with Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center (MCMWTC), Marine Air Ground Task Force Training Command, assists a Marine with 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, on the one-rope bridge during Mountain Exercise (MTX) 1-23 at MCMWTC, Bridgeport, California, Sept. 19, 2022. MTX is a month-long exercise designed to prepare units to survive and operate effectively in austere, mountainous terrain. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Shane T. Beaubien)

Photo by Cpl. Shane Beaubien

U.S. Marine Corps mountain warfare instructors with Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center (MCMWTC), Marine Air Ground Task Force Training Command, pull a Marine with 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, to safety while executing gorge crossing techniques during Mountain Exercise (MTX) 1-23 at MCMWTC, Bridgeport, California, Sept. 19, 2022. MTX is a month-long exercise designed to prepare units to survive and operate effectively in austere, mountainous terrain. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Shane T. Beaubien)

U.S. Marine Corps mountain warfare instructors with Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center (MCMWTC), Marine Air Ground Task Force Training Command, pull a Marine with 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, to safety while executing gorge crossing techniques during Mountain Exercise (MTX) 1-23 at MCMWTC, Bridgeport, California, Sept. 19, 2022. MTX is a month-long exercise designed to prepare units to survive and operate effectively in austere, mountainous terrain. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Shane T. Beaubien)

Photo by Cpl. Shane Beaubien

U.S. Marines with 8th Engineer Support Battalion, 2nd Marine Logistics Group, use stream-crossing techniques to cross the West Walker River during Mountain Exercise (MTX) 1-23 at Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center, Bridgeport, California, Sept. 21, 2022. MTX is a month-long exercise designed to prepare units to survive and operate effectively in austere, mountainous terrain. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Jonathan M. Forrest)

U.S. Marines with 8th Engineer Support Battalion, 2nd Marine Logistics Group, use stream-crossing techniques to cross the West Walker River during Mountain Exercise (MTX) 1-23 at Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center, Bridgeport, California, Sept. 21, 2022. MTX is a month-long exercise designed to prepare units to survive and operate effectively in austere, mountainous terrain. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Jonathan M. Forrest)

Photo by Cpl. Jonathan Forrest

U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Robert Sutphin, a mountain warfare instructor with Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center (MCMWTC), Marine Air Ground Task Force Training Command, explains the conduct of climbing using a cable ladder to Marines with 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, during Mountain Exercise (MTX) 1-23 at MCMWTC, Bridgeport, California, Sept. 24, 2022. MTX is a month-long exercise designed to prepare units to survive and operate effectively in austere, mountainous terrain. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Shane T. Beaubien)

U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Robert Sutphin, a mountain warfare instructor with Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center (MCMWTC), Marine Air Ground Task Force Training Command, explains the conduct of climbing using a cable ladder to Marines with 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, during Mountain Exercise (MTX) 1-23 at MCMWTC, Bridgeport, California, Sept. 24, 2022. MTX is a month-long exercise designed to prepare units to survive and operate effectively in austere, mountainous terrain. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Shane T. Beaubien)

Photo by Cpl. Shane Beaubien

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Nathaniel Lee, a rifleman with 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, climbs up a sheer cliff face using a cable ladder during Mountain Exercise (MTX) 1-23 at MCMWTC, Bridgeport, California, Sept. 24, 2022. MTX is a month-long exercise designed to prepare units to survive and operate effectively in austere, mountainous terrain. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Shane T. Beaubien)

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Nathaniel Lee, a rifleman with 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, climbs up a sheer cliff face using a cable ladder during Mountain Exercise (MTX) 1-23 at MCMWTC, Bridgeport, California, Sept. 24, 2022. MTX is a month-long exercise designed to prepare units to survive and operate effectively in austere, mountainous terrain. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Shane T. Beaubien)

Photo by Cpl. Shane Beaubien

U.S. Marines with 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, climb up a sheer cliff face using a cable ladder during Mountain Exercise (MTX) 1-23 at MCMWTC, Bridgeport, California, Sept. 24, 2022. MTX is a month-long exercise designed to prepare units to survive and operate effectively in austere, mountainous terrain. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Shane T. Beaubien)

U.S. Marines with 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, climb up a sheer cliff face using a cable ladder during Mountain Exercise (MTX) 1-23 at MCMWTC, Bridgeport, California, Sept. 24, 2022. MTX is a month-long exercise designed to prepare units to survive and operate effectively in austere, mountainous terrain. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Shane T. Beaubien)

Photo by Cpl. Shane Beaubien

U.S. Marines with 8th Engineer Support Battalion, 2nd Marine Logistics Group, load a mule with equipment during Mountain Exercise (MTX) 1-23 at MCMWTC, Bridgeport, California, Sept. 23, 2022. The purpose of the animal packer’s course is to teach personnel the necessary skills to enable them to load and maintain pack animals for military applications in remote and dangerous environments, as a tool of irregular warfare.(U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Jonathan M. Forrest)

U.S. Marines with 8th Engineer Support Battalion, 2nd Marine Logistics Group, load a mule with equipment during Mountain Exercise (MTX) 1-23 at MCMWTC, Bridgeport, California, Sept. 23, 2022. The purpose of the animal packer’s course is to teach personnel the necessary skills to enable them to load and maintain pack animals for military applications in remote and dangerous environments, as a tool of irregular warfare.(U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Jonathan M. Forrest)

Photo by Cpl. Jonathan Forrest

U.S. Marines with Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center (MCMWTC), Marine Air Ground Task Force Training Command, and 8th Engineer Support Battalion, 2nd Marine Logistics Group, load gear onto a mule during Mountain Exercise (MTX) 1-23 at MCMWTC, Bridgeport, California, Sept. 23, 2022. The purpose of the animal packer’s course is to teach personnel the necessary skills to enable them to load and maintain pack animals for military applications in remote and dangerous environments, as a tool of irregular warfare.(U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Jonathan M. Forrest)

U.S. Marines with Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center (MCMWTC), Marine Air Ground Task Force Training Command, and 8th Engineer Support Battalion, 2nd Marine Logistics Group, load gear onto a mule during Mountain Exercise (MTX) 1-23 at MCMWTC, Bridgeport, California, Sept. 23, 2022. The purpose of the animal packer’s course is to teach personnel the necessary skills to enable them to load and maintain pack animals for military applications in remote and dangerous environments, as a tool of irregular warfare.(U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Jonathan M. Forrest)

Photo by Cpl. Jonathan Forrest

U.S. Marines with Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center (MCMWTC), Marine Air Ground Task Force Training Command, and 8th Engineer Support Battalion, 2nd Marine Logistics Group, load gear onto a mule during Mountain Exercise (MTX) 1-23 at MCMWTC, Bridgeport, California, Sept. 23, 2022. The purpose of the animal packer’s course is to teach personnel the necessary skills to enable them to load and maintain pack animals for military applications in remote and dangerous environments, as a tool of irregular warfare.(U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Jonathan M. Forrest)

U.S. Marines with Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center (MCMWTC), Marine Air Ground Task Force Training Command, and 8th Engineer Support Battalion, 2nd Marine Logistics Group, load gear onto a mule during Mountain Exercise (MTX) 1-23 at MCMWTC, Bridgeport, California, Sept. 23, 2022. The purpose of the animal packer’s course is to teach personnel the necessary skills to enable them to load and maintain pack animals for military applications in remote and dangerous environments, as a tool of irregular warfare.(U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Jonathan M. Forrest)

Photo by Cpl. Jonathan Forrest

U.S. Marines with 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, participate in fire support team virtual training during Mountain Exercise (MTX) 1-23 at Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center (MCMWTC), Bridgeport, California, Sept. 22, 2022. MTX is a month-long exercise designed to prepare units to survive and operate effectively in austere, mountainous terrain. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Jonathan M. Forrest)

U.S. Marines with 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, participate in fire support team virtual training during Mountain Exercise (MTX) 1-23 at Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center (MCMWTC), Bridgeport, California, Sept. 22, 2022. MTX is a month-long exercise designed to prepare units to survive and operate effectively in austere, mountainous terrain. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Jonathan M. Forrest)

Photo by Cpl. Jonathan Forrest

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Daniel Recinos, administrative clerk with Headquarters Battalion, Marine Air Ground Task Force Training Command, Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center (MCAGCC) poses for a photo at MCAGCC, Twentynine Palms, California, Aug. 24, 2022. Recinos has been recognized as the Junior Enlisted Service Member of the Quarter, having stood out amongst his peers and demonstrated exceptional performance of his duties. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Jacquilyn Davis)

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Daniel Recinos, administrative clerk with Headquarters Battalion, Marine Air Ground Task Force Training Command, Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center (MCAGCC) poses for a photo at MCAGCC, Twentynine Palms, California, Aug. 24, 2022. Recinos has been recognized as the Junior Enlisted Service Member of the Quarter, having stood out amongst his peers and demonstrated exceptional performance of his duties. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Jacquilyn Davis)

Photo by Lance Cpl. Jacquilyn Davis

U.S. Marine Corps Col. Christopher Haar, commanding officer of Combat Logistics Regiment 3, 3rd Marine Logistics Group, conducts planning during Exercise Maltese Dragon, at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, California, Aug. 15, 2022. Exercise Maltese Dragon is a training exercise, hosted by Marine Corps Logistics Operation Group, where logistics staffs train in an exercise-controlled environment undergoing different Combat Operations Center simulated stressors used to train and educate well-rounded Marine Air Ground-Task Force logisticians. 3rd MLG, based out of Okinawa, Japan, is a forward-deployed combat unit that serves as III Marine Expeditionary Force’s comprehensive logistics and combat service support backbone for operations throughout the Indo-Pacific area of responsibility. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Alpha Hernandez)

U.S. Marine Corps Col. Christopher Haar, commanding officer of Combat Logistics Regiment 3, 3rd Marine Logistics Group, conducts planning during Exercise Maltese Dragon, at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, California, Aug. 15, 2022. Exercise Maltese Dragon is a training exercise, hosted by Marine Corps Logistics Operation Group, where logistics staffs train in an exercise-controlled environment undergoing different Combat Operations Center simulated stressors used to train and educate well-rounded Marine Air Ground-Task Force logisticians. 3rd MLG, based out of Okinawa, Japan, is a forward-deployed combat unit that serves as III Marine Expeditionary Force’s comprehensive logistics and combat service support backbone for operations throughout the Indo-Pacific area of responsibility. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Alpha Hernandez)

Photo by Cpl. Alpha Hernandez

U.S. Marine Corps mountain warfare instructors with Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center (MCMWTC), Marine Air Ground Task Force Training Command, observe Marines 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, as they rappel down a sheer cliff face during Mountain Exercise (MTX) 1-23 at MCMWTC, Bridgeport, California, Sept. 18, 2022. MTX is a month-long exercise designed to prepare units to survive and operate effectively in austere, mountainous terrain. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Shane T. Beaubien)

U.S. Marine Corps mountain warfare instructors with Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center (MCMWTC), Marine Air Ground Task Force Training Command, observe Marines 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, as they rappel down a sheer cliff face during Mountain Exercise (MTX) 1-23 at MCMWTC, Bridgeport, California, Sept. 18, 2022. MTX is a month-long exercise designed to prepare units to survive and operate effectively in austere, mountainous terrain. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Shane T. Beaubien)

Photo by Cpl. Shane Beaubien

U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Luis Aragon (Right), a mountain warfare instructor with Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center (MCMWTC)t, Marine Air Ground Task Force Training Command, observes Pfc. Ricardo Grimaldo, a rifleman with 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, as he rappels down a sheer cliff face during Mountain Exercise (MTX) 1-23 at MCMWTC Bridgeport, California, Sept. 18, 2022. MTX is a month-long exercise designed to prepare units to survive and operate effectively in austere, mountainous terrain. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Shane T. Beaubien)

U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Luis Aragon (Right), a mountain warfare instructor with Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center (MCMWTC)t, Marine Air Ground Task Force Training Command, observes Pfc. Ricardo Grimaldo, a rifleman with 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, as he rappels down a sheer cliff face during Mountain Exercise (MTX) 1-23 at MCMWTC Bridgeport, California, Sept. 18, 2022. MTX is a month-long exercise designed to prepare units to survive and operate effectively in austere, mountainous terrain. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Shane T. Beaubien)

Photo by Cpl. Shane Beaubien

U.S. Marine mountain warfare instructors with Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center (MCMWTC), Marine Air Ground Task Force Training Command, prepare Marines with 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, to rappel down a sheer cliff face during Mountain Exercise (MTX) 1-23 at MCMWTC, Bridgeport, California, Sept. 18, 2022. MTX is a month-long exercise designed to prepare units to survive and operate effectively in austere, mountainous terrain. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Shane T. Beaubien)

U.S. Marine mountain warfare instructors with Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center (MCMWTC), Marine Air Ground Task Force Training Command, prepare Marines with 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, to rappel down a sheer cliff face during Mountain Exercise (MTX) 1-23 at MCMWTC, Bridgeport, California, Sept. 18, 2022. MTX is a month-long exercise designed to prepare units to survive and operate effectively in austere, mountainous terrain. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Shane T. Beaubien)

Photo by Cpl. Shane Beaubien

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