Story by Lance Cpl. Kolby Leger | 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit | 08.14.2020
Marines with Combined Anti-Armor Team (CAAT) 1, Battalion Landing Team, 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), picked up trash at Kin Blue, Okinawa, Japan, July 25, 2020. After spending three full days and nights patrolling and practicing basic infantry skills in the heat, Marines from CAAT 1 spent the morning clearing Kin Blue beach from trash and debris that had......
Story by Lance Cpl. Eric Tso | III Marine Expeditionary Force | 03.15.2018
U.S. Marines from 1st Battalion, 3d Marine Regiment conducted combined anti-armor team mounted patrols during Exercise Bougainville I at Marine Corps Training Area Bellows, Hawaii, March 15, 2018....
Story by Lance Cpl. Abrey Liggins | II Marine Expeditionary Force | 10.03.2017
Marines with Echo Company and Combined Anti-Armor Team with 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment conducted cross training in preparation for exercise Bold Alligator 17 at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, Sept. 29, 2017....
Story by Sgt. Clemente Garcia | II Marine Expeditionary Force | 12.19.2016
Marines with Weapons Company, 3rd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, executed fire and maneuver training with High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles during a deployment for training exercise at Fort Pickett, Va., Dec. 3, 2016....
Story by Cpl. Paul S. Martinez | II Marine Expeditionary Force | 08.11.2015
To effectively destroy an armored target, a Marine must utilize something that packs a much bigger punch than their standard 5.56 mm or 7.62 mm rounds. Fortunately for the Marine Corps, the FGM-148 Javelin missile system and M41A4 Saber missile system can do just that, every time....
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 Cpl. Reece Lodder | I Marine Expeditionary Force | 01.30.2012
Situated in the southern portion of Afghanistan’s Helmand province, Garmsir district has historically been a highway for insurgent movement from Pakistan. Though Garmsir is separated from the country’s northern border by only the sparsely populated Khan-Neshin district, it’s largely considered to border Pakistan with respect to human terrain....
