U.S. Navy Seaman Tyler Yensan, right, a corpsman with Lima Company, 3rd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, draws blood from U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Anthony Welborn, a machine gunner with Lima Co., 3rd Bn., 4th Marines, as part of Exercise Steel Knight 23.2 at Marine Corps Air-Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, California, Dec. 2, 2023. The training was part of the Valkyrie Program, which was created to train corpsmen and Marines to conduct blood transfusions. The Marines and Sailors of 3rd Bn., 4th Marines, are leading the way during the second phase of Infantry Battalion Experiment, a service-level campaign to inform the future force design of the infantry battalion to conduct expeditionary, offensive and defensive operations. Steel Knight is a three-phase exercise designed to train I Marine Expeditionary Force in the planning, deployment and command and control of a joint force against a peer or near-peer adversary combat force and enhance existing live-fire and maneuver capabilities of the Marine Air-Ground Task Force. Welborn is a native of Greensboro, North Carolina. Yensan is a native of Buffalo, New York. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Gabriel Antwiler)
Date Taken: | 12.02.2023 |
Date Posted: | 12.11.2023 14:49 |
Photo ID: | 8161097 |
VIRIN: | 231202-M-RK059-1042 |
Resolution: | 4311x6466 |
Size: | 1.13 MB |
Location: | TWENTYNINE PALMS, CALIFORNIA, US |
Hometown: | BUFFALO, NEW YORK, US |
Hometown: | GREENSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA, US |
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