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Marines with 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment conducted aerial insertion and raids during Steel Knight in Yuma, Ariz., Dec. 6-8, 2016. The training provide a realistic scenario for the Marines to enhance raid skills clearing and securing open areas and urban terrains. Steel Knight is a division level exercise designed to enhance the command and control and interoperaiblity with the 1st Marine Division, its adjacent units and naval support forces. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Frank Cordoba/Released)

Marines with 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment conducted aerial insertion and raids during Steel Knight in Yuma, Arizona, Dec. 6-8, 2016. The training provide a realistic scenario for the Marines to enhance raid skills clearing and securing open areas and urban terrains. Steel Knight is a division level exercise designed to enhance the command and control and interoperaiblity with the 1st Marine Division, its adjacent units and naval support forces. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Frank Cordoba/Released)

Today, 1st Marine Division is a multi-role, expeditionary ground combat force. The Division is employed as the ground combat element (GCE) of I MEF or may provide task-organized forces for assault operations and such operations as may be directed. The 1st Marine Division must be able to provide the ground amphibious forcible entry capability to the naval expeditionary force (NEF) and to conduct subsequent land operations in any operational environment.

Marines with Company K, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, participate in machine gun live-fire target engagement aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., April 11, 2016. The Marines worked in pairs and fired M249 Squad Automatic Weapons and M240 medium machine guns at targets of unknown distances. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Timothy Valero/ Released)

Marines with Company B, 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division, conduct MOUT town training during a Marine Corps Combat Readiness Evaluation aboard Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, Calif., March 25, 2016. The week-long assessment tests the unit’s competency prior to its upcoming deployment to Okinawa, Japan. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Timothy Valero/ Released)

U.S. Marines with Battery A, 1st Battalion, 12th Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division, and Weapons Company, 2nd Battalion 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, provide indirect fire support for the Fire Support Coordination Exercise during Integrated Training Exercise 2-16 at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, Calif., Jan. 24, 2016. Company Fire Support Teams utilized assets to suppress simulated enemy air defense to support ground scheme maneuver during FSCEX. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Sgt. Donald Holbert/ Released)