Story by Lance Cpl. Melissa Ugalde | Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton | 01.22.2020
U.S. Marines with Charlie Company, Infantry Training Battalion, School of Infantry-West conducted a fire and movement range as part of their final basic skills retention exercise at Range 208C on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, Jan. 22....
Story by Lance Cpl. Damarko Bones | II Marine Expeditionary Force | 11.29.2016
Marines with 1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment conducted squad-sized fire and maneuver drills to enhance combat readiness and basic fundamentals as Marine infantrymen at Camp Lejeune, N.C., Nov. 29, 2016....
Story by Cpl. Jonathan Boynes | Task Force 51/5th Marine Expeditionary Brigade | 08.25.2015
Enthusiasm: it's one of the intangible characteristics that separate Marines from every other branch of service. Austere conditions, limited resources, and daunting odds are reduced to nothing more than minor setbacks when put before a group of Marines....
Story by Cpl. Michelle Reif | II Marine Expeditionary Force | 08.11.2015
For the Marines of Bravo and Charlie Company, 2nd Combat Engineer Battalion, the last three weeks of training have been leading them up to this moment. They have worked tirelessly through static ranges, demolition ranges, urban assaults and much more. Now it was time to put what they had learned to the test in the grand, culminating event. Everything was on the line and it was time to prove......
Story by Lance Cpl. Carlos Cruz Jr. | Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni | 08.04.2015
Combat Logistics Company 36 Marines and augments returned to Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, Aug. 4, from Exercise Dragon Fire 2015 at Combined Arms Training Center Camp Fuji, Japan....
Story by Cpl. Chelsea Toombs | II Marine Expeditionary Force | 04.08.2015
Bright sunshine beamed relentlessly onto Range Lima 5 as Marines with Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment grabbed their gear and began the walk through the tree-line to their staging area. The Marines prepared to begin squad supported fire and maneuver attacks during a training exercise aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, April 8, 2015....
Story by Lance Cpl. Justin Updegraff | II Marine Expeditionary Force | 01.21.2015
Patrolling up the range, Marines with 2nd Reconnaissance Battalion, 2nd Marine Division simulated coming into contact with an enemy unit that is superior in numbers and fire power aboard Camp Lejeune, N.C., Jan. 21, 2015....
Story by Lance Cpl. Justin Updegraff | II Marine Expeditionary Force | 09.19.2014
Marines with 2nd Assault Amphibian Battalion, 2nd Marine Division picked up and moved their entire amphibious battalion to Fort A.P. Hill, Virginia, to conduct Gator Field Exercise Aug. 25 to Sept. 12....
