U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Zebulon Helton, an infantry Marine with 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, left, prepares to pass through an obstacle during company attacks as part of Service Level Training Exercise 5-24 at Range 400, Marine Corps Air-Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, California, July 25, 2024. SLTE 5-24 is purpose built to train, develop, and validate the Infantry Battalion Experiment as part of a larger Marine Air-Ground Task Force operation as a Stand-in Force across a contested multi-domain distributed environment. ITX enables units to mobilize geographically dispersed forces for potential future deployments, increase combat readiness and lethality, and exercise Marine Air-Ground Task Force command and control of battalions and squadrons across the full spectrum of warfare. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Enge You)