A Marine Littoral Regiment will be a self-deployable, multi-domain force optimized for the contact and blunt layers. It will persistently operate across the competition continuum to support the Joint Force’s role in assuring allies and partners, deterring adversaries, conducting and enabling Joint Force contact, blunt, and surge activities.
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On September 11, 2001, the unimaginable happened. “What’s going on?” asked Carlos Lopezllamozasguzman, a 12-year-old student at Rizzuto Elementary School in La Porte, Texas. “Why is everyone leaving?” Lopez looked around his classroom confused...
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A steady chorus of thumps reverberated through the air as a U.S. Marine Corps CH-53 Super Stallion delivered fuel to a Forward Arming and Refueling Point at Inyokern Airfield, California. The Marines swiftly seized the delivery and made quick work of preparing the FARP for sustained operations as part of exercise Steel Knight, an annual training event that sharpens the skills and lethality of the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing and 1st Marine Division...
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U.S. Marines and Sailors with the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit honed their warfighting skills and strengthened their core crisis response capabilities during MEU Exercise I from distributed operating positions within the littorals of eastern North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, from Dec. 7 to Dec. 22, 2022. This fifteen-day field exercise was the first of several collective Marine Air-Ground Task Force training events associated with the 26th MEU pre-deployment training program in preparation for an upcoming deployment to the 6th Fleet and 5th Fleet areas of responsibility in 2023...
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“It’s just the right thing to do and I would expect the same from anyone else.” At the time, Lance Cpl. Joseph Howard, a mortarman with Weapons Company, 2nd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division, walked home from work with two friends when they witnessed a vehicle collision between four vehicles in Levittown, New York, on Dec. 30, 2017...
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