Story by Lance Cpl. Gracelyn Hanson | Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center | 08.26.2025
Ryan competed against thousands of other firefighters all over the U.S. to earn the award which recognizes firefighters for their outstanding contributions. The award is part of the VFW National Awards for Public Servants and includes awards for emergency medical technicians, law enforcement, public safety emergency dispatchers and explosive ordnance disposal technicians....
Story by Shaehmus Sawyer | Marine Corps Base Quantico | 04.10.2025
First Lt. Max J. Goldberg, Capt. Harald H. Kirn and Maj. Michael A. Farnan MARINE CORPS BASE QUANTICO, Va. – In the middle of a sun-casted day on Feb. 7, three U.S. Marine officers were walking to the Desert Botanical Garden on the streets of Phoenix when they caught a glance of a woman on the side of a bus stop, folded at the hip with her head planted in between her splayed legs on the......
Story by 2nd Lt. Madison Walls | 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing | 08.17.2023
CAMP WILSON, Calif. – A first in U.S. Navy and Marine Corps history, Marines delivered fuel to a Navy MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned autonomous helicopter from a Marine Corps CH-53E, at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, California, July 31, 2023. The innovative trial was the first time a manned aircraft has provided fuel for an unmanned rotary wing aircraft....
Story by Lance Cpl. Anna Higman | Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center | 08.04.2023
MARINE CORPS AIR GROUND COMBAT CENTER, Calif. – U.S. service members conducted flight training with both Air Force MQ-9A and Navy MQ-8C unmanned aircraft systems during Service Level Training Exercise 5-23, July 27, 2023....
Story by Lance Cpl. Anna Higman | Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center | 04.25.2023
MARINE CORPS AIR-GROUND COMBAT CENTER, Calif. – U.S. Marines and Sailors with 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment (2/2) conducted Marine Air-Ground Task Force (MAGTFTC) Distributed Maneuver Exercise (MDMX) during Integrated Training Exercise (ITX) 3-23 at Marine Corps Air-Ground Combat Center (MCAGCC), Twentynine Palms, California, April 25....
Story by Airman 1st Class Nicholas Paczkowski | 49th Wing | 03.02.2023
Airmen from Holloman Air Force Base’s 9th and 29th Aircraft Maintenance Units participated in Agile Combat Employment Reaper 23.6 at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, California, Feb. 14 to 16, 2023....
Courtesy Story | Marine Corps Installations Command | 05.24.2021
On April 5, 2021 the Tortoise Research and Captive Rearing Site (TRACRS) at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center (MCAGCC) Twentynine Palms released a group of 98 juvenile desert tortoises into the wild. The tortoises were protected and raised in the TRACRS facility and were monitored as part of the MCAGCC translocation program....
Story by Airman Kiaundra Miller | 92nd Air Refueling Wing | 05.13.2021
Team Fairchild Airmen from the 384th and 93rd Air Refueling Squadron observed a Marine Corps exercise here, May 3-11, 2021. The observation allowed Team Fairchild the opportunity to create a joint partnership between Airmen and Marines for future exercises....
