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Marine Large-Scale Exercise Expands on Naval Integration, Live-Virtual Training

Marine Large-Scale Exercise Expands on Naval Integration, Live-Virtual Training

Marine Corps MV-22B Osprey assigned to Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 164, Marine Aircraft Group 39, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, flies Marines with 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, to a simulated airfield seizure during a mission rehearsal exercise as part of Exercise Steel Knight 23.2 at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, Dec. 2, 2023. US Marine Corps Photo

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. — The platoons of infantry Marines stepped out of the first group of MV-22B Ospreys that landed in a brushy field last week and made their way to a nearby compound. They arrived at the request of the U.S. State Department to protect the U.S. embassy amid rising local tensions in a fictional city hit by a natural disaster. Read More