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MARINE CORPS AIR GROUND COMBAT CENTER, Calif. - Tactical Training and Exercise Control Group supported Counter-Unmanned Aerial Systems and Electronic Warfare Training during Service Level Training Exercise 4-25, held at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, located in Twentynine Palms, California. SLTE 4-25 for Marine Air Ground Task Forces, sustains and involves live-fire and maneuver multi-domain combined arms tactics, techniques, and procedures, as well as electronic warfare training. This training simulates combat conditions and improves the decision-making cycle and threat capabilities in order to generate MAGTF combat readiness and lethality.
The Marine Innovation Unit is focused on developing the knowledge and skills necessary to effectively operate and conduct counter-unmanned aerial systems operations at the Combat Center. Capt. Thomas Carroll, assigned to MIU, leveraged his experience as an infantry officer and physicist to evolve, teach, and conduct training centered around countering the modern UAS threats. After attending Carroll’s C-UAS course, Marines and their units participate in training scenarios where they must use the skills they learned to counter threat devices.
"This class has been incredibly beneficial, learning to deny our enemies their capabilities in the future fight,” said Cpl. Erich Le from 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment. “I am confident that we can safeguard our Marines and equipment using these systems.”
A military installation with the space and capabilities required to complete this training is extremely important and crucial to success, especially with very few opportunities to conduct this critical training. This combination of available assets makes the Combat Center a unique and highly valuable place to conduct training across the electromagnetic spectrum.
“To date, I am not aware of another group in the Department of Defense that is teaching these concepts, nor incorporating it into large-scale training,” said Carroll. “I feel lucky to have ended up in the right spot, at the right time, to help develop and drive the training that our Marines need to stay alive.”
Tactical Training Exercise Control Group staff leverage their systems expertise and integrate tactical scenarios to prioritize effective training, while operators practice hands-on use. To enhance training complexity and realism TTECG integrates Marines with signals intelligence military occupational specialties and challenges them to respond to scenarios in real time.
“The opportunity to expose Marines to this training, and to enable them to effectively counter the UAS threat they will experience during SLTE is unique to TTECG,” said Staff Sgt Benjamin Allred, the team leader of an electronic warfare within TTECG. “I am encouraged by the amount of participation we have received from the exercise units throughout SLTE 4-25, and the commanders’ willingness to address this problem set with significant time and resources.”
Ultimately, Carroll envisions the establishment of a small, capable group of Marines that can travel across the Marine Corps to provide C-UAS and electromagnetic spectrum awareness training. Qualified Marines will likely be certified in a variety of different backgrounds, of experience in signals intelligence, physics, electrical engineering, and infantry tactics.
“Every Marine should be prepared to operate in the environment of electronic warfare,” said Carroll. “This is the environment we live in, the reality we have to operate in – and we can’t afford to not be prepared.”
Known as the largest Marine Corps training base, Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center located at Twentynine Palms, California, is known for its premier live-fire, combined-arms training facilities and now the most up-to-date and advanced training in C-UAS and electronic warfare.
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| Date Taken: | 08.11.2025 |
| Date Posted: | 08.12.2025 12:17 |
| Story ID: | 545371 |
| Location: | TWENTYNINE PALMS, CALIFORNIA, US |
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