Story by Gunnery Sgt. Jeffrey Cordero | 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit | 06.16.2023
CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. – Marines and Sailors with the Bataan Amphibious Ready Group (BAT ARG) and 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) participated in their culminating deployment certification event, Composite Training Unit Exercise (C2X), aboard the Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Bataan (LHD 5), San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship USS Mesa Verde (LPD 19), and Harpers......
Story by 1st Lt. Noah Richardson | 1st Marine Division | 03.30.2023
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. – 1st Marine Division Navy corpsmen completed the annual Corpsman Cup to practice and refine their critical capabilities in a realistic training environment on 30 March, in Camp Pendleton, CA. The Corpsman Cup is a long-standing tradition within the 1st Marine Division, in which this year's event was modified to honor the 78th anniversary of the Battle of Iwo Jima......
Story by Staff Sgt. Caitlin Brink and Sgt. Savannah Mesimer | III Marine Expeditionary Force | 08.25.2022
OKINAWA, JAPAN – For the first time in history, III Marine Expeditionary Force sponsored a U.S. Navy boot camp division as part of the recruit division sponsorship program at Recruit Training Command (RTC) Great Lakes, Illinois, providing mentorship from their first day to their graduation on Aug. 26, 2022....
Story by Sgt. Averi Coppa | III Marine Expeditionary Force | 02.12.2021
III Marine Expeditionary Force Exercise (MEFEX) 21, a joint exercise that further enhanced the Navy-Marine Corps team’s ability to respond to crises or contingencies, concluded Feb. 12, 2021....
Courtesy Story | 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit | 10.25.2020
Over the course of a recent deployment, the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) and America Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) enhanced interoperability between the Navy-Marine Corps team, challenging old patterns and finding new ways to integrate capabilities....
Story by Brock Vergakis | Navy Region Mid-Atlantic | 04.14.2020
Marines conducting security use quick thinking to help save lives bound for USNS Comfort. The medical staff aboard the Norfolk, Virginia-based ship are treating trauma, emergency and urgent care patients without regard to their COVID-19 status to help relieve local hospitals that have become overwhelmed with patients because of the coronavirus pandemic....
Story by Cpl. Jessica Etheridge | 1st Marine Aircraft Wing | 11.03.2017
Marines with 1st Marine Aircraft Wing participated in the joint field training exercise Blue Chromite 2018, throughout the prefecture of Okinawa, Japan, October 23 – November 3, 2017....
Story by Cpl. Olivia McDonald | II Marine Expeditionary Force | 08.12.2016
The streets of Rockland, ME, were busy with residents, visitors and men and women in uniform to celebrate the 69th annual Lobster Festival, Aug. 3-7. The community ate, mingled and enjoyed all the festival activities together down by the Rockland harbor where the USS Oak Hill (LSD-51) could be seen anchored off the shore....
