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12/18/2022
Semper Fi 🇺🇸
📍 Camp Lejeune (Dec. 7, 2022)
Cpl. Marco Hernandez, a Ridgecrest, California, native with the 2d Marine Division participates in his re-enlistment ceremony.
Hernandez was identified as a “Follow Me" Marine in an effort to share the stories of Marines who decided to re-enlist.
📷 (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Megan Ozaki)
12/17/2022
Basic Warrior Training
📍Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, S.C. (Nov. 16, 2022)
with Hotel Company, 2nd Recruit Training Battalion, learn and execute Basic Warrior Training techniques.
Recruits learn basic infantry skills such as land navigation, maneuvering through obstacles, and buddy rushing.
📷 (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Loriann Dauscher)
12/17/2022
You voted and the results are in!
This week's Top Shot is brought to you by Cpl. Kyle Jia!
Cpl. Jia captured conducting a night raid at Camp Lejeune during a Marine Air Ground Task Force Interoperability Course.
12/15/2022
Top Shot 📸
Here are the week's best photos from around the Corps. Help select the "Corps' Top Shot" by liking, commenting on, or sharing your favorite image.
The image with the most combined hits by the end of the day will be crowned as our photo of the week.
12/15/2022
Hidden In The Sky
📍 Bogue, North Carolina (Dec. 1, 2022)
with the Maritime Special Purpose Force (MSPF), 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, conduct a free-fall insertion over Marine Corps Auxiliary Landing Field Bogue.
This training was conducted as part of a Marine Air Ground Task Force (MAGTF) Interoperability Course during the intermediate training phase of the pre-deployment training program.
📷 (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Kyle Jia)
12/14/2022
12/14/2022
Congratulations to this week’s Top Shot winner!
12/14/2022
12/14/2022
Happy Birthday, National Guard!
Tracing their lineage back to the Massachusetts colonial militias of 1636, the is our nation’s oldest military organization. Today, we celebrate the service of the citizen soldiers of the National Guard and their continued commitment to protecting our communities and our country.
12/13/2022
Stingers 🎯
📍 San Clemente Island, Calif. (Dec. 5, 2022)
with 3rd Low Altitude Air Defense Battalion, Marine Air Control Group 38, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, fire FIM-92A Stinger surface-to-air missiles during exercise Steel Knight 23.
Exercise provides an opportunity to refine Wing-level warfighting in support of I Marine Expeditionary Force (I MEF) and fleet maneuver.
📷 (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Joshua Brittenham)