Story by Cpl. Levi Schultz | Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center | 09.21.2016
As the Marines approached the hill overlooking the combat town, machine-gunners took their positions to provide suppressive fire while engineers and rifleman made their advance on the facility. As the Marine Corps’ premier combined-arms, live-fire training installation, this style of training is routine aboard the Combat Center. However, this exercise was made unique by the country the......
Story by Lance Cpl. Levi Schultz | Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center | 10.08.2015
The Combat Center provides Marines from around the world the ability to conduct relevant live-fire combined arms training, urban operations, and joint or coalition level integration training that promotes operational forces readiness. Approximately 1,000 British Royal Marines and 170 Dutch Royal Army soldiers experienced this training first-hand during Operation Black Alligator 15....
Story by Cpl. Demetrius Morgan | 1st Marine Division | 10.01.2015
Marines with Company A, 1st Tank Battalion, 1st Marine Division supported Royal Marines with 42 Commando Group during Exercise Black Alligator 2015 aboard Marine Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, California, Sept. 30 - Oct. 1, 2015....
Story by Cpl. Carson Gramley | 1st Marine Logistics Group | 09.21.2015
Standing on the edge of a cliff, looking 50 feet down into a dirt-filled gorge is a place most people would stay far away from, but Marines and Royal engineers from the British 54 Commando Squadron decided that would be a nice spot to build a bridge. Marines from Bridge Company, 7th Engineer Support Battalion, 1st Marine Logistics Group and Marines from 1st Combat Engineer Battalion, 1st......