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February 3, 2025

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  • 3/6 Lima Co. Day Raid

    Feb 21 2025
    MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, NC.
    U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Justin Jensen, a machine gunner with Lima Company, Battalion Landing Team, 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit, patrols through terrain during a simulated raid in support of Marine Air Ground Task Force (MAGTF) Interoperability Exercise at Stone Bay on Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, Feb. 10, 2025. The raid is one of several training events within the Marine Air Ground Task Force Interoperability, a course conducted by Expeditionary Operations Training Group. This course is designed to train and evaluate integrated elements of the 22nd MEU across a variety of full mission profiles in a simulated peer threat environment. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Emily Hazelbaker)
  • 3/6 Lima Co. Night Raid

    Feb 21 2025
    MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, NC.
    U.S. Marines with Lima Company, Battalion Landing Team 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit, executes a simulated raid during Marine Air-Ground Task Force (MAGTF) Interoperability Exercise, on Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, Feb. 8, 2025. The raid is one of several training events within MAGTF Interoperability, a course conducted by Expeditionary Operations Training Group. This course is designed to evaluate integrated elements of the 22nd MEU across a variety of full mission profiles in a simulated peer threat environment. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Nathan Mitchell)
  • Helicopter Support Team Operations

    Feb 21 2025
    BOGUE AIRFIELD, NC.
    U.S. Marines with 2nd Combat Readiness Regiment, 2nd Marine Logistics Group, observer a CH-53E super stallion transport a container during helicopter support team operations as part of 2nd CRR’s Regimental Field Exercise at Marine Corps Auxiliary Landing Field Bogue, Bogue, North Carolina, Feb. 5, 2025. 2nd CRR conducted the REGFEX to enhance the regiment’s ability to support II Marine Expeditionary Force with logistical support. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Christian Salazar)
  • 22nd MEU insertion and extraction drills

    Feb 21 2025
    MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, NC.
    U.S. Marine Corps Capt. Sam Lorey, the assistant air officer with II Marine Expeditionary Force Expeditionary Operations Training Group (EOTG), conducts a special patrol insertion and extraction rigging drill during an EOTG Helicopter Rope Suspension Techniques Master Course at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, Feb. 14, 2025. EOTG trains II Marine Expeditionary Force units in preparation for upcoming deployments in support of global combatant commands. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Kyle Baskin)
  • II MSB Relief and Appointment Ceremony

    Feb 21 2025
    MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, NC.
    U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Maj. Crispiniano D. Curiel, incoming sergeant major, II Marine Expeditionary Force Support Battalion, II MEF Information Group, delivers a speech during a relief and appointment ceremony at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, Feb. 14, 2025. A relief and appointment ceremony is a military tradition that signifies all responsibilities and authorities being transferred between the old and new senior enlisted leader of the command. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Marc Imprevert)
  • 3/6 India Co. Raid

    Feb 13 2025
    MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, NC.
    U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Devlin Burns, a rifleman with India Company, Battalion Landing Team 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit, posts security during a simulated raid in support of Marine Air Ground Task Force (MAGTF) Interoperability Exercise at Stone Bay on Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, Feb. 5, 2025. The raid is one of several training events within the Marine Air Ground Task Force Interoperability, a course conducted by Expeditionary Operations Training Group. This course is designed to train and evaluate integrated elements of the 22nd MEU across a variety of full mission profiles in a simulated peer threat environment. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Charis Chilton)
  • V 2/2 TRAP Training

    Feb 13 2025
    MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, NC.
    U.S. Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey aircraft with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 261 (VMM-261), prepare to land during tactical recovery of aircraft and personnel (TRAP) training at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, Feb. 4, 2025. The ability to conduct TRAP and personnel recovery missions allows the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit and its forces to rapidly respond to downed aircraft, and rescue people from isolated or hazardous locations. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Osmar VasquezHernandez)
  • HMLA-269 participates in SLTE 1-25

    Feb 13 2025
    TWENTYNINE PALMS, CA.
    U.S. Marines with Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron (HMLA) 269 hoist a simulated casualty from a UH-1Y Venom at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, California, Jan. 29, 2025. HMLA-269 and other squadrons assigned to 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing trained to integrate with and support Marine Corps ground units during Service Level Training Event (SLTE) 1-25, a series of training events designed to prepare Marines for operations around the globe. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Anakin Smith)
  • 26th MEU & 3/6 CID Identity and Attribution

    Feb 13 2025
    MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, NC.
    U.S. Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Bryan Bell, a criminal investigator with the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit, prepares to photograph a sample during Marine Air-Ground Task Force (MAGTF) Interoperability Exercise, on Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, Feb. 6, 2025. The raid is one of several training events within MAGTF Interoperability, a course conducted by Expeditionary Operations Training Group. This course is designed to evaluate integrated elements of the 22nd MEU across a variety of full mission profiles in a simulated peer threat environment. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Nathan Mitchell)
  • 2nd CRR Machine Gun Range

    Feb 13 2025
    MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, NC.
    U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Cameron Ganczak, an inventory management specialist with 2nd Combat Readiness Regiment, 2nd Marine Logistics Group, and native of California, fires an M240B machine gun during a live-fire range as part of 2nd CRR’s Regimental Field Exercise on Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, Feb. 6, 2025. 2nd CRR conducted the REGFEX to enhance the regiment’s ability to support II Marine Expeditionary Force with logistical support. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Franco Lewis)
Sustaining the Transformation: Chapter 2
Dec. 12, 2024 | 1:53
U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Derrel Pearcy, a section leader with 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2d Marine Division speaks on his experience as a non-commissioned officer on Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, Oct 10, 2024. This is in effort to support and elaborate on the updated version of Marine Corps Tactical Publication 6-10A, “Sustaining the Transformation.”

U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Derrel Pearcy, a section leader with 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2d Marine Division speaks on his experience as a non-commissioned officer on Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, Oct 10, 2024. This is in effort to support and elaborate on the updated version of Marine Corps Tactical Publication 6-10A, “Sustaining the Transformation.”

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