Story by Lance Cpl. Angel Alvarado | Fleet Marine Force Atlantic, Marine Forces Command, Marine Forces Northern Command | 05.27.2022
U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Jason W. Heintschel, a landing support specialist with Combat Logistics Battalion 24, 2d Marine Logistics Group, II Marine Expeditionary Force describes the significance of exercise LOADEX (Load Exercise) at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story, Virginia, May 18, 2022. LOADEX is a joint force exercise that allows Marines and Sailors to maintain proficiency,......
Story by 1st Lt. Kevin Stapleton | 2nd Marine Logistics Group | 01.21.2022
MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. – The U.S. Marine Corps announced today the names of the two U.S. Marines killed January 19, 2022, following a tactical vehicle rollover mishap near the intersection of North Carolina Highway 210 and U.S. Highway 17 near Jacksonville, North Carolina....
Story by Capt. Clayton Groover | 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit | 04.26.2019
U.S. Marines and Sailors with Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force-Crisis Response-Africa 19.2, Marine Forces Europe and Africa, participated in Humanitarian Mine Action with members of the Moroccan Royal Armed Forces April 1-26, 2019, at Unite de Secours et Sauvetage’s Base, Kenitra, Morocco....
Story by Cpl. Shannon Kroening | II Marine Expeditionary Force | 08.08.2016
CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. – Marines are known to have the ability to adapt and overcome to any given situation, enabling them to respond quickly and efficiently to any situation that they may encounter. For Marines stationed around the world there is training available to deal with certain situations without having to improvise, such as scenarios dealing with aquatic helicopter crashes...
Story by Sgt. Devin Nichols | 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit | 05.18.2015
Beneath the desert sun in Jordan, a notional enemy of armored vehicles prepares to make a stand against U.S. Marines with the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), Jordanian armed forces and Italian Marines, who wait just beyond the horizon of the battlefield....
Story by Cpl. Joey Mendez | 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit | 03.17.2015
The Earth’s surface is more than 70 percent water, and of all the water a monstrous 97 percent is salt water - leaving only three percent as freshwater, according to oceanservice.noaa.gov. For an amphibious force, like the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, the chances of landing in a zone with pure drinking water is not very high, but being near water is likely....
Story by Lance Cpl. Joey Mendez and Sgt. Devin Nichols | 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit | 08.14.2014
Marines and Sailors with the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit caught their first glimpse of what their life will consist of while deployed aboard the USS Iwo Jima, USS New York, or the USS Fort McHenry, during Amphibious Squadron/ Marine Expeditionary Unit Integration, or PMINT, August 6—13....
Story by Cpl. Todd Michalek | 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit | 07.17.2014
Marines and Sailors with the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit’s Logistics Combat Element, Combat Logistics Battalion 24, and Ground Combat Element, Battalion Landing Team 3rd Battalion, 6th Marines, took part in a week-long mass casualty, or “masscas”, training exercise, July 14-18, 2014, at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, N.C....
