Story by Capt. Brian Tuthill | 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit | 08.30.2024
CAMP MUJUK, South Korea (Aug. 30, 2024) -- Maintenance Marines across elements of the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit conducted a coordinated maintenance surge across the entire unit to improve readiness on various types of vehicles and ground equipment Aug. 12-30 following their arrival Marine Corps Camp Mujuk and other installations in South Korea....
Story by 2nd Lt. Kevin Stapleton | 2nd Marine Logistics Group | 10.07.2020
MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. – In accordance with the 38th Commandant’s Planning Guidance and force design restructuring, 2nd Marine Logistics Group re-designated the former 2nd Transportation Support Battalion as 2nd Transportation Battalion in an activation ceremony at Camp Lejeune on October 7, 2020....
Story by Pfc. Courtney Robertson | 3rd Marine Logistics Group | 07.29.2020
CAMP FOSTER, OKINAWA, JAPAN –Motor Transportation is one of the biggest and most important occupational specialties in the Marine Corps. Each year, Headquarters Marine Corps selects the top-performing Marines in the field for special recognition of their efforts....
Story by Lance Cpl. Matthew Navarra | 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit | 10.24.2018
Marines with Combat Logistics Battalion 31 extended the range of the battalion’s motor transportation platoon recently, adding a low bed, 50-ton medium-heavy equipment transporter (MHET) to the complement of vehicles aboard the dock landing ship USS Ashland (LSD 48), while underway in the Pacific Ocean....
Story by Lance Cpl. Margaret Gale | Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center | 03.29.2018
Cpl. Santiago Dominguez IV, platoon sergeant, motor transportation company, 7th Marine Regiment, learned cadence from his step-father while mowing the lawn prior to enlisting in the Marine Corps. Dominguez joined the Marines to keep his family tradition going and to make his family proud....
Story by Pfc. Kelcey Seymour | Marine Corps Installations Pacific | 12.11.2017
CAMP FOSTER, OKINAWA, Japan – Military occupational specialties are the foundation of the Marine Corps. Each MOS is a cog, working with and relying on each other to keep the fighting machine that is the United States Marine Corps running. The motor transportation field is one of these cogs....
Story by Lance Cpl. Bernadette Wildes | III Marine Expeditionary Force | 08.01.2017
CAMP HANSEN, OKINAWA, Japan – The sun is just starting to peek through the greenhouse where the crunching of the mulch can be heard. The wheels of the red wagon will roll behind a man echoing a Marine Corps cadence. In the Okinawa heat, he looks, sniffs and searches through rows of mango trees for ripe fruit to take to the market....
Story by Cpl. Amaia Unanue | 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit | 07.28.2017
ABOARD USS ASHLAND (LSD 48), Pacific Ocean – Marines sit impatiently in the cramped metal space that makes up an Assault Amphibious Vehicle, commonly called a “track,” aboard an amphibious dock landing ship. The smell of fumes from the vehicle fills the air, and the little light coming from the driver’s hatch disappears with the thump of a heavy steel hatch closing. Now, with rifles in......
