Recon Jump
October 2nd, 2011 | From the Ranks Photography | Posted by Mike Morones
Reconnaissance Marines with Battalion Landing Team 3/1 watch a platoon member float under canopy here Sept. 22 during parachute operations training with Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 268 (Reinforced). The landing team and squadron are the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit’s ground-combat element and aviation-combat element respectively. The unit is preparing for a Western Pacific deployment this fall. (Lance Cpl. Ryan Carpenter/U.S. Marine Corps)
Pararescue Training
September 28th, 2011 | Photography | Posted by Mike Morones
U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Adam Azar, left, and Staff Sgt. Ryan Cloudier, take part in a rappelling training course at Hurlburt Field, Fla., on Sept. 20, 2011. Azar and Cloudier are Air Force pararescuemen assigned to the Red Team of the 23rd Special Tactics Squadron. DoD photo by Airman 1st Class Matthew J. Bruch, U.S. Air Force. (A1C Matthew J. Bruch/U.S. Air Force)
Night Light
September 27th, 2011 | From the Ranks | Posted by Mike Morones
PFC Greg Zecher and PFC Nicholas Roberts, machine gunners with Lima Company, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, illuminate the night sky by firing tracer rounds and then reloading their weapons during Exercise Clear, Hold, Build 3 on Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, Calif., Sept. 21, 2011. (Cpl. Reece Lodder. US Marine Corps)
Fort Pickett Assault
September 20th, 2011 | Photography | Posted by Mike Morones
Marines from 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment train on assault operations using the V-22 Osprey Sept. 19 at Fort Pickett. More than 900 Marines and sailors are taking part in the Deployment for Training Exercise Sept. 6-23. The battalion is scheduled to attach to the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit as its Battalion Landing Team a few days after the training is complete. (Cotton Puryear/Virginia National Guard Public Affairs)
Smokin’
September 15th, 2011 | Photography | Posted by Chris Maddaloni
Charlie Co., 5th Platoon 2nd Lt. Clayton Groover’s M249 SAW machine gun smokes after heavy shooting during a new 8-day training event – a live-fire field operation – in “The War,” during The Basic School, at Quantico Marine Base, Va., September 14, 2011.
Steady Shot
September 6th, 2011 | From the Ranks | Posted by Mike Morones
Sgt. Jason Pacheco, 23, scout sniper instructor, Division Schools, 1st Marine Division, from Las Vegas, N.M., uses his prosthetic leg as support for an M40 Sniper Rifle on a firing range at Camp Pendleton Aug. 30, 2011. Pacheco suffered a severed leg after an improvised explosive device detonated beneath him during a patrol in Afghanistan August 2010. Pacheco uses his prosthetic leg to support the weight of his rifle to show an example of how students can use anything to steady a rifle. He has been an instructor for the Pre-Scout Sniper School since March and recently completed a physical fitness test with his prosthetic leg. He has re-enlisted and said he hopes to continue training in preparation to return to full duty. (Official U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Timothy Lenzo)
Heads-Up
August 27th, 2011 | From the Ranks | Posted by Mike Morones
Indiana National Guard 1st Lt. Katie Elkins rappels at Camp Atterbury Joint Maneuver Training Center in central Indiana on August 18, 2011. (Indiana National Guard photo by Sgt. John Crosby)
Khaan Quest
August 3rd, 2011 | Photography | Posted by Mike Morones
A Marine from 1st Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force out of Camp Pendleton, Calif., bounds over a fighting position on the Mongolian armed forces’ confidence course during the field training exercise portion of Exercise Khaan Quest 2011 at Five Hills Training Area near Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, Aug. 1. (Cpl. Tyler Main/USMC)
Maj. Myagmaraj Dorj, operations officer with Unit 311, Peace Support Operations Training Center, Mongolian Armed Forces, describes the AK-47 automatic rifle to a multinational audience during the live fire portion of the field training exercise at Exercise Khaan Quest 2011 at Five Hills Training Area near Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, Aug. 1. (Cpl. Tyler Main/USMC)
Lance Cpl. Aaron Martinez, a field radio operator with 1st Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force out of Camp Pendleton, Calif., fires a rocket-propelled grenade during the live fire portion of the field training exercise at Exercise Khaan Quest 2011. (Cpl. Tyler Main/USMC)
Marines from 1st Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force out of Camp Pendleton, Calif., race through a confidence course during the field training exercise portion of Exercise Khaan Quest 2011. (Cpl. Tyler Main/USMC)
Shells
August 1st, 2011 | From the Ranks | Posted by Chris Maddaloni
Spent shell casings pile up as a soldier fires his weapon down-range during weapons qualification on Fort Riley, Kansas, July 26, 2011. The soldier is assigned to the 1st Infantry Division’s Combat Aviation Brigade. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Roland Hale
Urban Training
June 20th, 2011 | From the Ranks | Posted by Mike Morones
CAMP PENDLETON, CA – Marines with India Company, Battalion Landing Team 3/1, part of the ground combat element with the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit, position themselves to assault a notional enemy in an urban environment during the helicopter raid course here June 16. The Marines are training for their upcoming deployment later this year. (U.S. Marine Corps Photo/Cpl. Gene Allen Ainsworth)