IBX battalion conducts urban operations with new unmanned systems for the first time at Range 220 during Exercise Apollo Shield [Image 1 of 6]

TWENTYNINE PALMS, CA, UNITED STATES

10.13.2023

Photo by Lance Cpl. Iris Gantt 

Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Jackson Dake, a Monroe, Washington native, Infantry Marine with 3rd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, 7th Marine Regiment (REIN), configures an Autonomous Unmanned Ground Vehicle during Exercise Apollo Shield at Range 220, Marine Corps Air-Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, California, Oct. 13, 2023. Joint Training Exercise Apollo Shield is the culminating event of Marine Corps Warfighting Lab’s 1-year crawl-walk-run bilateral effort to test equipment capabilities and evaluate tactics, techniques, and procedures. The Combat Center provides a training facility capable of truly testing the equipment and it is home to the infantry battalion experiment 2030, the first unit to receive the equipment tested by MCWL. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Iris Gantt)

• Date Taken: 10.13.2023
• Date Posted: 10.24.2023 15:08
• Photo ID: 8085748
• VIRIN: 231013-M-PL449-1009
• Resolution: 5532x3688
• Size: 12.54 MB
• Location: TWENTYNINE PALMS, CA, US
• Hometown: MONROE, WA, US