To strengthen crisis response in the Indo-Pacific region, U.S. Marines with 5th Air Naval Gunfire Liaison Company, III Marine Expeditionary Force Information Group, and the Republic of Korea Marine Corps conducted exercise Warrior Shield 24, which includes the Korean Marine Exchange Program, rehearsing close air support combat scenarios using the deployed virtual training environment at Osan Air Base, South Korea.
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U.S. Marines with 2d Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment executed exercise Korea Viper 24.1 in the Republic of Korea, Jan. 31- Feb. 29, 2024, while forward deployed under 4th Marine Regiment, 3d Marine Division. Korea Viper is an exercise series that allows Marines to rehearse stand-in force operations and provides opportunities to train with Republic of Korea partners.
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U.S., Republic of Korea, and Royal Thai Marines conducted a combined arms live-fire exercise (CALFEX), the culminating event of Exercise Cobra Gold 2024, in Ban Chan Khrem, Chanthaburi province, Thailand, March 8.
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U.S. Marines with 2d Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment executed exercise Korea Viper 24.1 in the Republic of Korea, Jan. 31- Feb. 29, 2024, while forward deployed under 4th Marine Regiment, 3d Marine Division. Korea Viper is a new exercise series that allowed the Marines to practice expeditionary advanced base operations and also provided opportunities to train with Republic of Korea partners.
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On February 8, 2024, Marines with Marine Wing Support Squadron (MWSS) 171 traveled from Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni to the small Ban Prakaet Village in Chanthaburi Thailand to build a school. The Marines would go on to spend a month staying at a nearby temple, eating, sleeping and working alongside their counterparts in the Royal Thai Marine Corps and Singaporean Army. They would also sow seeds of friendship with the local village members and students, who would greet them every morning with smiles brighter than the hot Thailand sun that would beam upon them for the next month.
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CHANTHABURI PROVINCE, Thailand – U.S., Republic of Korea, and Royal Thai Marines conducted a combined arms live-fire exercise (CALFEX), the culminating event of Exercise Cobra Gold 2024, in Ban Chan Khrem, Chanthaburi province, Thailand, March 8.
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