U.S. Marines with Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 8th Marines, 6th Marine Regiment, acquire a simulated casualty and run toward the pickup zone during tactical recovery of aircraft and personnel certification at Stone Bay in Camp Lejeune, Sept. 10, 2026. This TRAP training prepared BLT 1/8 for an upcoming deployment by focusing on the rapid rescue, medical treatment and extraction of stranded personnel, alongside securing or destroying downed military assets. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Staff Sgt. Stephen Campbell)
MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. — Marines with Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 8th Marines, 6th Marine Regiment, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, employed the Bolt-M autonomous air vehicle during an Organic Precision Fire live-fire event at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, Aug. 28. The training provided Marines an opportunity to employ and integrate an emerging Organic Precision Fires-Light capability designed to place precision-strike capabilities at the company level ahead of the MEU’s upcoming deployment.
OPF-L provides infantry formations with a portable loitering munition capability that combines reconnaissance, surveillance and target acquisition with precision strike. Traditionally, infantry battalions have relied on...
SOUDA BAY, Greece – U.S. Marines and Sailors with the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) (MEU(SOC)), embarked aboard the ships of the Bataan Amphibious Ready Group (BATARG) conducted advanced ARG/MEU readiness sustainment training, Naval Support Activity Souda Bay, Greece, Feb. 16-20, 2024.
