SUMBERWARU, INDONESIA (Dec. 15, 2022) - U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Jonathan Natividad, an automotive maintenance technician with Combat Logistics Battalion 13, 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit, shakes hands with an Indonesian Korps Marinir (KORMAR) before an Engineering Civic Assistance Project (ENCAP) during Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training/ Marine Exercise (MAREX), Dec. … [Read more...]
Theater-Wide Influence and Global Effects
DECEMBER 27, 2022 - Three amphibious ships, occupying approximately 262,000 square feet of the Indo-Pacific’s 100 million square mileage, with the ability to provide theater-wide influence and global effects – this is the value of a west coast Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) embarked with an Amphibious Ready Group (ARG). On Dec. 3 2022, the 13th MEU, which brings the full … [Read more...]
Fielding the Radios of the Future
DECEMBER 22, 2022 – As recent developments in distant battlefields have shown, successful military operations rely on resilient communication architectures capable of closing kill chains in austere environments. In order to maintain fleet lethality, Marine Corps Systems Command is working on fielding a state-of-the-art multichannel handheld radio system that mitigates … [Read more...]
Marines Moving KC-130 and MQ-9 Aircrafts to Hawaii
DECEMBER 22, 2022 - The Marine Corps has completed an Environmental Assessment in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act to determine the impacts of home basing two new aircraft here: the KC-130J aircraft and the MQ-9 remotely piloted aircraft. The EA involved a detailed analysis, extensive consultations with the local community and government agencies, and full … [Read more...]
Marines and Sailors Conduct Steel Knight 23
DECEMBER 21, 2022 - As threats from around the world remain on our nation’s horizon, the Navy and Marine Corps remain ready to respond at a moment’s notice. For more than 30 years, Exercise Steel Knight has served as 1st Marine Division’s culminating event for pre-deployment certification, under I Marine Expeditionary Force. Today, as the nature of threats evolve, so does … [Read more...]