II MEF News

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Samuel Argentieri, a light armored vehicle mechanic, with 2nd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 2nd Marine Division, fires his rifle at a notional enemy target during a live-fire range on the National Training Center 20-05 in Ft. Irwin, Calif., March 22, 2020. The National Training Center is a unique opportunity that allows Marines and Sailors to train with and against a peer competitor in a conventional combat operational setting. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Elijah J. Abernathy) - U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Samuel Argentieri, a light armored vehicle mechanic, with 2nd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 2nd Marine Division, fires his rifle at a notional enemy target during a live-fire range on the National Training Center 20-05 in Ft. Irwin, Calif., March 22, 2020. The National Training Center is a unique opportunity that allows Marines and Sailors to train with and against a peer competitor in a conventional combat operational setting. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Elijah J. Abernathy)

Light armored vehicles with C Company, 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, roll through the desert landscape of southern Helmand province, Afghanistan, March 8. During their deployment, 3rd LAR Marines have spent weeks and months at a time roving the open desert conducting interdictions against insurgent narcotics and weapons smuggling. - Light armored vehicles with C Company, 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, roll through the desert landscape of southern Helmand province, Afghanistan, March 8. During their deployment, 3rd LAR Marines have spent weeks and months at a time roving the open desert conducting interdictions against insurgent narcotics and weapons smuggling.

Sgt. Jesse Walden, chief scout with C Company, 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, prepares to fire a light anti-armor rocket at an insurgent fighting position in the Bahram Chah Valley during Operation Rawhide II in Helmand province, Afghanistan, March 16. During the four-day raid on the key insurgent trafficking hub on the Pakistan border, insurgents fought mainly from hillside fighting positions. The fighters Walden engaged were using a cave a few hundred yards from a Marine position. - Sgt. Jesse Walden, chief scout with C Company, 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, prepares to fire a light anti-armor rocket at an insurgent fighting position in the Bahram Chah Valley during Operation Rawhide II in Helmand province, Afghanistan, March 16. During the four-day raid on the key insurgent trafficking hub on the Pakistan border, insurgents fought mainly from hillside fighting positions. The fighters Walden engaged were using a cave a few hundred yards from a Marine position.