This year, United States Marine and Naval officers with 2nd Marine Division traveled to Toulon for Exercise NARVAL to conduct planning with French forces for Exercise ORION 2023, scheduled to take place this upcoming January. ORION will be the largest airborne and amphibious exercise coordinated by French forces since the 1980s, with an emphasis in high intensity combat and amphibious warfare...
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The Pacific theater of World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the Persian Gulf and Iraq – since its inception in the 1940s, members of the 1st Marine Division Band have gone wherever Marines have fought, often setting down their instruments to be on the front lines. Today, the band continues its history of supporting Marines on the ground, providing music for 1st Marine Division ceremonies as well as over 400 events in the surrounding community. Most recently, they provided the musical score for the Marine Corps’ newest commercial campaign, “Shifting Threats.”...
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U.S. Marines from 3rd Explosive Ordnance Disposal Company, 9th Engineer Support Battalion, 3rd Marine Logistics Group, commenced Humanitarian Mine Action Levels 1 and 2 Explosive Ordnance Disposal training with Royal Thai Military Thailand Mine Action Center counterparts, in Ratchaburi, Kingdom of Thailand, November 14, 2022...
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Approximately 50 U.S. Marines from II Marine Expeditionary Force, based out of Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, embarked on Military Sealift Command Europe and Africa/Commander Task Force 63 expeditionary fast transport ship USNS Trenton (T-EPF 5) for a one-month deployment, Nov. 17...
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