Story by Cpl. Kaitlyn Klein | II Marine Expeditionary Force | 03.23.2016
Marines with Marine Wing Support Squadron 272 demonstrated their expeditionary capabilities during a Marine Corps Combat Readiness Evaluation at Marine Corps Auxiliary Landing Field Bogue, North Carolina, March 14-18....
Story by Cpl. Kaitlyn Klein | U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Europe and Africa | 09.26.2015
U.S. Marines with Black Sea Rotational Force teamed up with U.S. Army Soldiers, Romanian service members, and local volunteers to clean up Mamaia Resort, Romania, Sept. 26, 2015....
Story by Cpl. Kaitlyn Klein | U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Europe and Africa | 09.23.2015
The Combined Arms Company marked initiation with an opening ceremony in Eastern Europe, Sept. 23, 2015. The rotational force marks the first Marine mechanized unit in Eastern Europe....
Story by Cpl. Kaitlyn Klein | II Marine Expeditionary Force | 05.07.2015
Marines in flight suits hurried along the length of a CH-53E Super Stallion. Their boots blackened by hydraulic fluid, treaded carefully around hooks and gunners’ belts....
Story by Cpl. Kaitlyn Klein | II Marine Expeditionary Force | 04.22.2015
“We have a hitchhiker!” shouted a Marine from the front tasked with the imminent duty of checking for possible improvised explosive devices before the patrol initiates a blast....
Story by Cpl. Kaitlyn Klein | II Marine Expeditionary Force | 04.16.2015
The sounds of rotors tore through the warm air as Marines stood in a tree line, waiting for the winds to calm and the aircraft to land before breaking cover and boarding the helicopters....
Story by Cpl. Kaitlyn Klein | II Marine Expeditionary Force | 03.24.2015
The sun is beating down on a large, open field of grass and tangled weeds. Short, deafening blasts cut through the sounds of M203 and M32 grenade launchers firing. Marines charge towards enemy forces behind a moving wall of transparent riot shields, guarding themselves from blue-body practice grenades that are flying towards them....
Story by Cpl. Kaitlyn Klein | II Marine Expeditionary Force | 02.19.2015
Marines with 1st Battalion, 10th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, hooked an M777-A2 howitzer to a CH-53E Super Stallion during a training exercise aboard Training Landing Zone Hawk before making a movement to TLZ Dodo and conducting a live-fire exercise, Feb. 19, 2015....
