I MEF provides the Marine Corps a globally responsive, expeditionary, and fully scalable Marine Air-Ground Task Force (MAGTF), capable of generating, deploying, and employing ready forces and formations for crisis response, forward presence, major combat operations, and campaigns.
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U.S. Marines with the Marine Rotational Force – Darwin (MRF-D) 25.3 Marine Air-Ground Task Force (MAGTF) are taking part in Exercise Talisman Sabre 25, Australia’s largest bilateral military exercise, to enhance interoperability and strengthen ties with the Australian Defence Force and U.S. Army joint forces across the Northern Territory (NT) this month.
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Since December 2024, the Marines and Sailors of Marine Rotational Force – Darwin (MRF-D) 25.3 have charted a historic path, validating what it means to be a stand-in force in the Pacific under the U.S. Marine Corps’ Force Design 2030. As the first MRF-D Marine Air-Ground Task Force (MAGTF) to simultaneously deploy forces forward to Australia and within the First Island Chain (FIC), their presence in the Indo-Pacific has demonstrated America’s commitment to positioning combat-credible formations forward alongside allies and partners, wherever and whenever needed.
On a scorching hot June afternoon, the convoy of a multinational team of explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) technicians crawled through the jungle-lined roads of Rabaul, Papua New Guinea. Dust swirled around the tires of the military vehicles, the air thick with the weight of what lay hidden beneath the earth — forgotten relics of war, still deadly nearly a century later. Operation Render Safe 25-1, conducted June 3-14, 2025, was nearing its end.
U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Maj. Peter A. Siaw relinquished the Sword of Office to Sgt. Maj. Rodney E. Nevinger during a relief and appointment ceremony on Camp Pendleton, California, today.
U.S. Marines and Sailors with 7th Engineer Support Battalion, 1st Marine Logistics Group, I Marine Expeditionary Force, were recognized by U.S. Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Michael S. Cederholm, commanding general of I MEF, for being the highest performing unit during Operation Clean Sweep II at Camp Pendleton, California, July 1, 2025.
U.S. Marines with Marine Rotational Force – Darwin 25.3 give a message for the mid-point of their deployment, July 7, 2025. MRF-D is an annual...
U.S. Marines and sailors with Headquarters Company, Marine Rotational Force – Darwin 25.3, participate in an unknown-distance combat marksmanship...
Retired U.S. Marine Corps Chief Warrant Officer 4 Anthony L. Viggiani discusses the importance of discipline and standards in a combat environment on...
U.S. Marines with Marine Rotational Force – Darwin 25.3, I Marine Expeditionary Force Forward, Philippine Marines with 3rd Brigade, Soldiers with the...
U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Ryan Kelley, a radio systems operator, Sgt. Krystal Brandt, a data analyst, and Staff Sgt. Jeremiah Rogers, an explosive...
U.S. Marines with Marine Rotational Force — Darwin 25.3, sailors and soldiers participate in Operation Render Safe 25.1 with service members from the...
U.S. Marines with 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, Marine Rotational Force – Darwin 25.3, complete participating in Predator Series 2025 at Mount...
U.S. Marines and Sailors throughout I Marine Expeditionary Force and Marine Corps Installations – West initiate Operation Ironclad, June 2, 2025....
U.S. Marines with 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, Marine Rotational Force – Darwin 25.3, I Marine Expeditionary Force Forward, and Philippine...
U.S. Marines and Sailors with 1st Marine Division train to become water survival advanced-qualified at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California,...