U.S. Marine Corps Pfc. Xander Mares, financial management resource analyst, Headquarters Battalion, Marine Forces Reserve, participates in an oleoresin capsicum maneuver course during Security Augmentation Force training, Marine Corps Support Facility, New Orleans, March 14, 2024. Mares and others were trained to augment military police in providing security at the support facility. Mares is a native of New Mexico. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Kanoa Thomas)
U.S. Marines participate in exercise Arctic Edge 2024 across various training locations in Alaska from Feb. 23, 2024 to March 11, 2024. The exercise consisted of High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) live-fire training, field testing of an AN/TPS-80 Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar (G/ATOR), practicing C-130 aircraft long range logistical operations to include ingress and egress of personnel and equipment, live-fire machine gun ranges, and field training with a Marine Corps Cold Weather Infantry Kit (MCCWIK). The arctic conditions allowed the Marines to refine their tactics, techniques, and procedures in a cold weather environment while testing their equipment in the extreme weather conditions. The active component and reserve...
New Orleans-based Marine Forces Reserve and Marine Forces South will hold a formal, traditional Marine Corps change of command ceremony between outgoing Lt. Gen. David G. Bellon and incoming Lt. Gen. Leonard F. Anderson IV.