Approximately 100 Marines with II Marine Expeditonary Force participated in Exercise Atlantic Response 12 aboard Auxillary Landing Field Bouge near Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, N.C., Aug 21-23. Atlantic Response is a scenario-driven, simulation supported exercise designed to develop the command staff's ability to rapidly respond to today's emerging crises using today's middle-weight force. - Approximately 100 Marines with II Marine Expeditonary Force participated in Exercise Atlantic Response 12 aboard Auxillary Landing Field Bouge near Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, N.C., Aug 21-23. Atlantic Response is a scenario-driven, simulation supported exercise designed to develop the command staff's ability to rapidly respond to today's emerging crises using today's middle-weight force.

Sergeant Maj. Craig D. Cressman, the outgoing sergeant major of II Marine Expeditionary Force Headquarters Group, chats Lance Cpl. Christopher Fouts, a data network specialist with II MHG, following a relief and appointment ceremony at Camp Lejeune, Aug. 2. Cressman has spent nearly two years as the command's senior enlisted advisor during which they deployed to Helmand Province, Afghanistan as Task Force Belleau Wood in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. He will be taking over the duties as the sergeant major of Headquarters and Service Battalion, Headquarters Marine Corps, Henderson Hall located in Washington D.C. - Sergeant Maj. Craig D. Cressman, the outgoing sergeant major of II Marine Expeditionary Force Headquarters Group, chats Lance Cpl. Christopher Fouts, a data network specialist with II MHG, following a relief and appointment ceremony at Camp Lejeune, Aug. 2. Cressman has spent nearly two years as the command's senior enlisted advisor during which they deployed to Helmand Province, Afghanistan as Task Force Belleau Wood in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. He will be taking over the duties as the sergeant major of Headquarters and Service Battalion, Headquarters Marine Corps, Henderson Hall located in Washington D.C.

Lance Cpl. William Kozlosky, a rifleman in 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, takes cover during the final exercise of Corporal's Course at The Staff Non-Commissioned Officer’s Academy on Camp Johnson, N.C., June 25. The course is the first in a series of professional military education classes at the academy that provides Marines with leadership training to enhance their professional qualifications as they take on greater responsibility. - Lance Cpl. William Kozlosky, a rifleman in 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, takes cover during the final exercise of Corporal's Course at The Staff Non-Commissioned Officer’s Academy on Camp Johnson, N.C., June 25. The course is the first in a series of professional military education classes at the academy that provides Marines with leadership training to enhance their professional qualifications as they take on greater responsibility.