Videos

U.S. Marines with I Marine Expeditionary Force Support Battalion, I MEF Information Group, construct burms using D6 bulldozers during a Combat Service Support Company field exercise at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, Dec. 14, 2022. CSSC conducted the field exercise to meet operational and training objectives to enhance deployment capabilities and unit readiness. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Atticus Martinez)

U.S. Marines with Ground Sensor Platoon and Maritime Surveillance Platoon, 3rd Intelligence Battalion, III Marine Expeditionary Force Information Group, patrol and experiment with intelligence equipment at the Jungle Warfare Training Center, Camp Gonsalvez, Okinawa, Japan, Sept. 13-15, 2022. GSP is a scalable specialized unit whose mission is to collect enemy signatures in order to provide Marine Air-Ground Task Force commanders advanced warning of offensive attacks, counter enemy reconnaissance, and aid and force protection. MSP is an experimental unit whose mission is to decrease the commander's uncertainty of the maritime domain through the employment of radars and other sensors. MSP provides the Marine Corps with its only organic maritime sensor surveillance capability in support of the MAGTF and Navy commanders’ intelligence collection efforts. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Staff Sgt. Manuel Serrano and Cpl. Grace Gerlach)

U.S. Marines with 5th Air Naval Gunfire Liaison Company participate in a Water Survival Advanced course on Camp Hansen, Okinawa, Japan, April 13, 2022. WSA is the highest swim qualification Marines and sailors can obtain before moving onto the next echelon of becoming a Marine Corps Instructor of Water Survival. III MIG functions as the vanguard of III MEF, operating in the Indo-Pacific regions information environment, and supports Marine Air Ground Task Force operations with communications, intelligence, and supporting arms liaison capabilities. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Alexandria Nowell)

U.S. Marine Corps Lt. Col. Anthony Mercado, commanding officer of 1st Air Naval Gunfire Liaison Company (ANGLICO), I Marine Expeditionary Force Information Group, speaks on his time with 1st ANGLICO on their 70th anniversary at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, March 2, 2021. 1st ANGLICO was established in 1949 as the premier liaison company who helped develop the “universal spotter” concept, which consolidates the work of multiple Marines into one Marine trained to coordinate and control fires from artillery, naval gunfire, and close air support. (U.S. Marine Corps motion imagery by Lance Cpl. Atticus Martinez)

U.S. Marines with 1st Battalion, 3d Marines conduct Exercise Bougainville I on Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Marine Corps Training Area Bellows, and Kahuku Training Area, Feb. 6-24, 2021. Bougainville I begins the battalion’s pre-deployment work-up and is designed to train and evaluate team leaders in small unit proficiency and increase combat readiness. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Jacob Wilson)

U.S. Marines with 3d Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, conduct exercise Savage Shield during Exercise Fuji Viper 21-2.2 at Combined Arms Training Center, Camp Fuji, Japan, Feb. 15-18, 2021. During this exercise, Marines honed tactics, techniques and procedures to support Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations at the platoon and company level. 3/8 is forward-deployed in the Indo-Pacific under 4th Marine Regiment, 3d Marine Division. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Staff Sgt. David Staten)

U.S. Marines Corps Amphibious Combat Vehicles (ACV) with Co. D, 3rd Assault Amphibian Battalion, 1st Marine Division, were employed for the first time in a 1st Marine Division training exercise during Marine Air Ground Task Force Warfighting Exercise (MWX) 2-21 at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, Calif., Feb. 14-20, 2021. MWX is the culminating event of the service-level training exercise, challenging Marines to fight against a free thinking adversary with similar capabilities in a force on force environment. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Sgt. Courtney G. White)

U.S. Marines with 1st Battalion, 3d Marines, conduct a deactivation ceremony for Weapons Company on Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Jan. 22, 2021. 1st Battalion, 3d Marines held the ceremony to commemorate the history of Weapons Company, which had been active since 1942. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Jacob Wilson)

U.S. Marines with Kilo Company, Battalion Landing Team, 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), conduct a boat raid with Combat Rubber Raiding Crafts at Kin Blue, Okinawa, Japan, Dec. 7, 2020. The Marines of Kilo Company conducted small boat raids in preparation for follow-on exercises. The 31st MEU, the Marine Corps’ only continuously forward-deployed MEU, provides a flexible lethal force ready to perform a wide range of military operations as the premier crisis response force in the Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Brandon Salas)