Company L squad leader and 26-year-old Tomball, Texas native Sgt. Alex M. Piasecki provides security, Sept. 12, during a field exercise in which amphibious assault vehicles transported the company ashore from USS New Orleans off the coast. The company is one of three rifle companies in Battalion Landing Team 3/1, the ground combat element for the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit. The unit began a sea-based exercise Sept. 1, its second aboard amphibious ships since becoming a complete Marine air-ground task force in May. A platoon of tracked vehicles from 3rd Assault Amphibian Battalion, Camp Pendleton, Calif., reinforces the Pendleton-based 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines. The platoon provides the go-to means of maneuver for Company L.
Date Taken: | 09.12.2011 |
Date Posted: | 09.14.2011 14:02 |
Photo ID: | 456549 |
VIRIN: | 110912-M-EE799-773 |
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Location: | SAN CLEMENTE ISLAND, CALIFORNIA, US |
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