II MEF News

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Petty Officers 3rd Class Edwin Bringner (lower left) and Rene Nava (kneeling on the right), company corpsmen with Weapons Company, 3rd Battalion, 23rd Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division, currently attached to 8th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, work on Lt. Cmdr. Michael Wilson (on the litter), the assistant battalion surgeon, as they explain what injuries the casualty has and how they treated him to Petty Officer 1st Class Brian Gerdes, the leading petty officer with Special Operations Training Group, II Marine Expeditionary Force, as part of patient-care and casualty-evacuation sustainment training here Aug. 9. The training was preparation for Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, Calif., exercise Mojave Viper where the corpsmen will do intensive casualty-evacuation training. - Petty Officers 3rd Class Edwin Bringner (lower left) and Rene Nava (kneeling on the right), company corpsmen with Weapons Company, 3rd Battalion, 23rd Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division, currently attached to 8th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, work on Lt. Cmdr. Michael Wilson (on the litter), the assistant battalion surgeon, as they explain what injuries the casualty has and how they treated him to Petty Officer 1st Class Brian Gerdes, the leading petty officer with Special Operations Training Group, II Marine Expeditionary Force, as part of patient-care and casualty-evacuation sustainment training here Aug. 9. The training was preparation for Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, Calif., exercise Mojave Viper where the corpsmen will do intensive casualty-evacuation training.

A simulated rocket-propelled grenade is launched at a convoy during exercise ?Vigilant Bastard? here, July 17-21. Third Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, took part in the exercise to prepare for a deployment to Iraq scheduled later this year. The exercise took Marines through several scenarios they could face in Iraq, including improvised explosive devices, small arms fire and dealing with the language barrier. - A simulated rocket-propelled grenade is launched at a convoy during exercise ?Vigilant Bastard? here, July 17-21. Third Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, took part in the exercise to prepare for a deployment to Iraq scheduled later this year. The exercise took Marines through several scenarios they could face in Iraq, including improvised explosive devices, small arms fire and dealing with the language barrier.

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The Wounded Warrior Battalion-East reveals its colors in an activation ceremony here, June 29. The battalion started as a barracks with only 12 Marines in 2005. Lt. Col. Tim Maxwell, a Wounded Warrior?s advisor with the battalion, came up with the idea to have a barracks solely for wounded warriors. - The Wounded Warrior Battalion-East reveals its colors in an activation ceremony here, June 29. The battalion started as a barracks with only 12 Marines in 2005. Lt. Col. Tim Maxwell, a Wounded Warrior?s advisor with the battalion, came up with the idea to have a barracks solely for wounded warriors.

A Marine with Company K, 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, directs his squad while patrolling alongside M1A1 Abrams Tanks through the Military Operations in Urban Terrain training facility during a ten-day training evolution called Exercise Practical Bastard, June 18-27. The training also included marksmanship, improvised explosive device detection, the Motorized Operations Training Package and working alongside Assault Amphibian Vehicles. - A Marine with Company K, 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, directs his squad while patrolling alongside M1A1 Abrams Tanks through the Military Operations in Urban Terrain training facility during a ten-day training evolution called Exercise Practical Bastard, June 18-27. The training also included marksmanship, improvised explosive device detection, the Motorized Operations Training Package and working alongside Assault Amphibian Vehicles.

Brig. Gen. David H. Berger, assistant division commander, 2nd Marine Division, cuts the cake during a ceremony for the 109th Navy Hospital Corps birthday here, June 18. The first two pieces of the cake are given to the oldest and youngest corpsman at the ceremony. - Brig. Gen. David H. Berger, assistant division commander, 2nd Marine Division, cuts the cake during a ceremony for the 109th Navy Hospital Corps birthday here, June 18. The first two pieces of the cake are given to the oldest and youngest corpsman at the ceremony.