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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)

Check out what’s been happening in this week’s edition of Around the MEF. 1st Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division, trains for aerial insertions. Marines and Sailors conduct casualty evacuation drills. Marines and Sailors demonstrate Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Response equipment and tactics at San Francisco Fleet Week. For more information: https://www.dvidshub.net/video/487138/air-land-and-sea-marines-infiltrate-sky https://www.dvidshub.net/video/486046/casevac-drills https://www.dvidshub.net/video/486917/marines-and-sailors-hold-hadr-demonstration-san-francisco-community

Marines with Maritime Raid Force, 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit, conduct an air-inserted land-base raid on a combat town as part of the MEU's field training exercise aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., May 12, 2016. During the raid, the Marines inserted into the site via MV-22 Osprey and CH-53 Super Stallion aircraft and were tasked with retrieving a simulated high-value target and exfiltrating from the area hastily. MEUEX serves as the first major exercise of the 11th MEU's pre-deployment training cycle as they work toward their upcoming West Pacific 16-2 deployment. (U.S. Marine Corps Motion Imagery by 11th MEU Combat Camera/Released)

Aviation ground support and combat logistics Marines with the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit establish a Forward Arming and Refueling Point as part of a MEU field exercise aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., May 12, 2016. During the FARP operations, the Marines received fuel from an MV-22 Osprey and CH-53E Super Stallion aircraft to provide refueling capabilities to incoming aircraft in support of MEUEX. (U.S. Marine Corps Motion Imagery by Gunnery Sgt. Robert B. Brown Jr.)

Marines and Sailors with Company F, 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, conducted tactical recovery of aircraft and personnel training aboard Marine Corps Air Ground Training Center, Twentynine Palms, Feb., 4, 2016. The training will better prepare 2/7 for their upcoming deployment to the Central Command area of responsibility as the ground combat element of Special Purpose Marine Air Ground Task Force Crisis Response Central Command 16.2, where they will be positioned to conduct TRAP missions in support of Operation Inherent Resolve.