Video by Sgt. Rowdy Vanskike | 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing | 07.30.2025
U.S. Marines with Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron (HMH) 461, Marine Aircraft Group 29, 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing (MAW), undergo a Marine Corps Combat Readiness Evaluation at U.S. Coast Guard Base Sector Key West, Florida, July 18 to Aug. 1, 2025. Marines with 2nd MAW and 2nd Distribution Support Battalion trained alongside elements of the U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, and U.S. Customs and Border......
Video by Cpl. Maurion Moore | 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit | 07.06.2025
U.S. Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Calafato, the Low Altitude Air Defense platoon sergeant, with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 263 (Reinforced), 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable), discusses LAAD capabilities aboard the San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship USS San Antonio (LPD 17), Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group, as part of Composite Training Unit Exercise,......
Video by Lance Cpl. Benjamin Catindig | 1st Marine Aircraft Wing | 06.12.2025
U.S. Marines with Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 169 (HMLA-169), Marine Aircraft Group 36, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing (1st MAW) integrate with 2nd Low Altitude Air Defense Battalion (2nd LAAD), 3rd Marine Division to train with anti-air capabilities at Combined Arms Training Center Camp Fuji, Japan, June 13, 2025. 1st MAW supported 4th Marine Regiment’s execution of Fuji Viper 25.3 by......
Video by Cpl. Maurion Moore | 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit | 04.07.2025
U.S. Marines with Low Altitude Air Defense (LAAD), Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 263 (Reinforced), 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit, operate a Light-Marine Air Defense Integrated System during Amphibious Squadron 8 (PHIBRON 8), 22nd MEU Integration (PMINT) exercise, aboard the San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship USS San Antonio (LPD 17), Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group (ARG),......
Video by Lance Cpl. Christian Salazar | U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Europe and Africa | 11.03.2024
U.S. Marines conduct simulated combat patrols in preparation for exercise Freezing Winds 24 on Dragsvik, Finland, Nov. 4, 2024. Freezing Winds is an annual Finnish-led maritime exercise involving U.S. Marines assigned to Marine Rotational Force – Europe and serves as a venue to increase Finnish Naval readiness and interoperability between NATO partners and allies in and around the Baltic......
Video by Lance Cpl. Richard PerezGarcia | Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center | 03.05.2024
U.S. Marine Corps students with Low Altitude Air Defense Training Section, Air Control Training Squadron, Training and Education Command, conduct a stinger live-fire exercise using FIM-92 Stingers on drone targets during an Integrated Training Exercise as part of Service Level Training Exercise 2-24, at training area Lead Mountain, Marine Corps-Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms,......
Video by Cpl. Cody Purcell | 1st Marine Aircraft Wing | 08.31.2023
U.S. Marines participate in a reactivation and designation ceremony for 1st Low Altitude Air Defense (LAAD) Battalion, Marine Air Control Group 18, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing at Marine Corps Air Station Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, Aug. 31, 2023. Originally activated in July 1982 in Okinawa, Japan, the unit underwent two redesignations before folding its’ colors in Sept. 2007. The reactivation of 1st......
Video by Cpl. Gabriel Antwiler | Marine Rotational Force - Darwin | 05.19.2023
U.S. Marines with 3rd Low Altitude Air Defense Battalion, Marine Air Control Group 38 Detachment, Marine Rotational Force – Darwin 23, and Australian Army Soldiers with 111 Battery, 16th Regiment, conduct low altitude air defence during Exercise Raptor's Strike at Cultana Training Area, South Australia, Australia, May 18, 2023. By training alongside Allies and partners, MRF-D remains ready......
