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U.S. Marines with 1st Air Naval Gunfire Liaison Company participated in the Field Exercise 1-23 at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, Oct. 11-14, 2022. 1st ANGLICO conducted COFEX 1-23 to develop, sustain, and enhance core competencies required to support I Marine Expeditionary Force across the company’s training and readiness standards and the warfighting functions. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Manuel Rivera)

U.S. Marines with Combat Logistics Regiment 17, 1st Marine Logistics Group, provide food service support for Exercise Iron Squire on Camp Pendleton, California, Sept. 19, 2022. The CLR-17 field mess Marines supporting Exercise Iron Squire were being evaluated as part of I Marine Expeditionary Force’s Major General William Pendleton Thompson Memorial Awards for Food Service Excellence. If selected as the winners from I MEF, the CLR-17 field mess Marines will compete in a final evaluation against II MEF and III MEF nominees for the winner of Best Field Mess in the Marine Corps. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Natalie Greenwood)

U.S. Marines with III Marine Expeditionary Force Information Group compete in a field meet on Camp Hansen, Okinawa, Japan, Sept. 16, 2022. Units with III MIG competed against each other in various athletic events during a field meet for the commander’s cup. III MIG functions as the vanguard of III MEF, operating in the Indo-Pacific region’s 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. Jessica Massi)

Recruits with Charlie Company, 1st Recruit Training Battalion, learn and apply rappelling techniques on Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, S.C., Sept. 6, 2022. The rappel tower allows recruits to overcome their fear of heights and gain more confidence as they progress through recruit training. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Luis Arturo Ponce Alavez Jr.)

U.S. Marines with 1st Radio Battalion, I Marine Expeditionary Force Information Group, conduct a Battalion Field Exercise across multiple military installations in the United States from August 6-26, 2022. The three week long FEX reinforced the Marines’ deployment capabilities and unit readiness within I MIG by conducting distributed operations and specific military occupational specialty training. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Sgt. Ian M. Simmons)

U.S. Marine Corps, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing Chief of Staff, Col. Jeremy Beaven reflects on the origin of the callsign "Cactus" at Marine Corps Base Butler, Okinawa, Japan, Aug. 3, 2022. The capture of Guadalcanal marked the turning point of the war in the Pacific. The importance of aviation to Marine tactics was graphically demonstrated at Guadalcanal where one of the first objectives of the assault was a partially completed Japanese airfield, later renamed Henderson Field. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Staff Sgt. Branden J. Bourque and Cpl. Dalton J. Payne)