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UAS with LMADIS Operations

U.S. Marines with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 263, 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit, conduct surveillance and anti-Unmanned Aerial System...

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Maritime Interception Ops

U.S. Marines with Weapons Company, Battalion Landing Team 3/6, 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit approach the San Antonio-class amphibious transport...

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Small Boat Ops ARGMEUEX

U.S. Marines with Weapons Company, Battalion Landing Team 3/6, 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), prepare to dock an 11-Meter Naval Special...

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Rockets Aboard USS Iwo Jima

U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Ryan Gasper, an aviation ordinance technician with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 263 (Reinforced), 22nd Marine...

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Fleet Week New York 2025 Prep

U.S. Marine Corps 2nd Lt. Jadon Carrol, a field artillery officer with Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force-Fleet Week New York, speaks to a...

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VMM-265 (REIN) USS San Antonio

U.S. Navy Sailor ABH3 Darrel Agustin, an aviation boatswain mate handler with the San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship USS San Antonio...

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2/6 TSULC: Live-Fire Ranges

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Diego Vasquez, left, an infantry rifleman with 2d Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2d Marine Division, fires at a target...

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2nd MLG CBRN Response Exercise

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Anthony Sevret, a chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear specialist with Headquarters and Service Battalion, 2nd...

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MSPF 22nd MEU SPIE Training

U.S. Marines with Maritime Special Purpose Force, 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit, conduct a wet rehearsal of Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction...

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MCMAP MAI Obstacle Course

U.S. Marines participate in an obstacle course as part of a Martial Arts Instructor Course at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, May 9, 2025. The MAI...

 

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  • Iwo Jima Veteran celebrates 100th Birthday

    May 12 2025
    Wilmington
    U.S. Marines with II Marine Expeditionary Force pose for a photo with Battle of Iwo Jima veteran Louis Bourgault Jr. following a birthday ceremony aboard the decommissioned battleship USS North Carolina, May 9, 2025. Bourgault, a World War II Marine Corps rifleman, was born on May 9, 1925, and fought in several pivotal battles, including Iwo Jima. The ceremony marked his 100th birthday. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Alexander Lesko)
  • 22nd MEU | Non-Lethal Weapons Course Day 3

    May 12 2025
    Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune
    U.S. Marine Corps Capt. Jared Woodward, right, a non-lethal weapons instructor, with the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit, instructs during a non-lethal weapons course at Marine Corps Base Stone Bay, April 30th, 2025. The non-lethal weapons course teaches students about weapons that are explicitly designed and primarily employed to incapacitate personnel or materiel while minimizing fatalities, permanent injury to personnel, and undesired damage to property and the environment. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Maurion Moore)
  • U.S. Marines with VMGR-252 conduct aerial refueling

    May 09 2025
    Air
    U.S. Marines with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 261 receive fuel in an MV-22B Osprey from a KC-130J Super Hercules with Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron (VMGR) 252 over the Atlantic Ocean near North Carolina, May 6, 2025. VMGR-252 conducted routine aerial refueling operations in support of VMM-261 over eastern North Carolina as part of its ongoing training continuum.
  • 22nd MEU | Non-Lethal Weapons Course Day 1

    May 07 2025
    Marine Corps Base Stone Bayc
    U.S. Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Bryan Bell, left, and Master Sgt. Alan Falkner, right, both non-lethal weapons instructors with the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit, demonstrate vehicle arresting device employment during a non-lethal weapons course at Marine Corps Base Stone Bay, April 28th, 2025. The non-lethal weapons course teaches students about weapons that are explicitly designed and primarily employed to incapacitate personnel or materiels while minimizing fatalities, permanent injury to personnel, and undesired damage to property and the environment. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Maurion Moore)
  • MCMAP Martial Arts Instructor Course PFT

    May 07 2025
    Camp Lejeune
    U.S. Marines conduct the pull-up portion of the physical fitness test during a Martial Arts Instructor Course at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, May 5, 2025. The MAI Course is a physically and mentally demanding three-week program designed to forge Marines into leaders who embody the warrior ethos, instill discipline, and teach others the values of MCMAP across II Marine Expeditionary Force and beyond. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Meshaq Hylton)
Change of Command
Aug. 30, 2022 | 3:33
U.S. Marine Corps Brig. Gen. John F. Kelliher III, the outgoing commander of Fleet Marine Force, Atlantic (FMFLANT), Marine Forces Command (MARFORCOM), Marine Forces Northern Command (MARFOR NORTHCOM), relinquishes command to Lt. Gen. Brian W. Cavanaugh, the incoming FMFLANT, MARFORCOM, MARFOR NORTHCOM commanding general, during a succession of command ceremony at Naval Station Norfolk Pennsylvania House, Virginia, Aug. 30, 2022. The succession of command ceremony is a military tradition that signifies all responsibilities and authorities being transferred from one commander to another. The new commanding general will proceed to execute the mission of FMFLANT, MARFORCOM and MARFOR NORTHCOM in provisioning joint capable Marine Corps forces, direct deployment planning and execution of Service-retained operating forces in support of the combatant commander. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Hannah Adams)

U.S. Marine Corps Brig. Gen. John F. Kelliher III, the outgoing commander of Fleet Marine Force, Atlantic (FMFLANT), Marine Forces Command (MARFORCOM), Marine Forces Northern Command (MARFOR NORTHCOM), relinquishes command to Lt. Gen. Brian W. Cavanaugh, the incoming FMFLANT, MARFORCOM, MARFOR NORTHCOM commanding general, during a succession of command ceremony at Naval Station Norfolk Pennsylvania House, Virginia, Aug. 30, 2022. The succession of command ceremony is a military tradition that signifies all responsibilities and authorities being transferred from one commander to another. The new commanding general will proceed to execute the mission of FMFLANT, MARFORCOM and MARFOR NORTHCOM in provisioning joint capable Marine Corps forces, direct deployment planning and execution of Service-retained operating forces in support of the combatant commander. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Hannah Adams)

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