Videos

U.S. Marine Corps 1st Lt. Holly Sandler, the fire power control team leader with 5th Air Naval Gunfire Liaison Company, Marine Rotational Force – Darwin, explains her team and her role as forward observation for a High Mobility Artillery Rocket System Rapid Infiltration during Exercise Loobye at Bradshaw Field Training Area, NT, Australia, Aug. 12, 2021. Sandler and the rest of the forward observation team were inserted via an MV-22B Osprey in order to send confirmation of the target hit. Exercises like Loobye demonstrate MRF-D’s ability to conduct operations as a joint force with the Australian Defence Force, execute expeditionary operations, like HIRAIN, and exemplify their mutual dedication to being postured and ready to respond to a crisis or contingency in the Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Sarah E. Taggett)

U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Jonathan Fico, a fires chief with 5th Air Naval Gunfire Liaison Company, Marine Rotational Force – Darwin, explains his team and his role as forward observation for a High Mobility Artillery Rocket System Rapid Infiltration during Exercise Loobye at Bradshaw Field Training Area, NT, Australia, Aug. 12, 2021. Fico and the rest of the forward observation team were inserted via an MV-22B Osprey in order to send confirmation of the target hit. Exercises like Loobye demonstrate MRF-D’s ability to conduct operations as a joint force with the ADF, execute expeditionary operations, like HIRAIN, and exemplify their mutual dedication to being postured and ready to respond to a crisis or contingency in the Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Sarah E. Taggett)

U.S. Marines with Fire Support Battery (FSB) 1st Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division conduct a combat marksmanship program (CMP) range on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, July 7, 2020. The Marines conducted the CMP range to ensure unit standardization and combat readiness in preparation for operational deployments. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Jacob Yost and Lance Cpl. Frank Webb)

U.S. Marines with 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, participate in a simulated air assault and decontamination during Steel Knight 2019 (SK19) on Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, Calif., Dec. 05, 2018. SK19 is an annual training exercise and assesses the 1st Marine Division’s ability to conduct ground combat operations against a peer or near-peer adversary. The exercise challenges the division’s commanders, staff, and units in a dynamic scenario against a reactive and opposing force to refine the units’ command and control, interoperability, and fundamental warfighting skills. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Sgt. Zachery Laning)

Marines with 3rd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, take part in a live-fire unknown distance training course aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., Nov. 3, 2016. The course is a portion of the pre-scout sniper program that prepares Marines for the scout sniper school. The unknown distance range teaches Marines the skills needed to determine the distance to a target without the use of a range finder or other similar tools and instead relies on the Marine using his scope and observation telescopes. Instructors stress the importance of the fundamentals of marksmanship during the course to the Marines. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Justin Huffty)

Marines with Company D 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion 1st Marine Division, provide fire from the M252 81mm Medium Extended Range Mortar mounted in specially equipped Light Armored Vehicles aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., June 22, 2016.Company D provided fire support as Marines in Basic Reconnaissance Training at the School of Infantry West earned their certifications as forward observers by calling for fire. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Timothy Valero/ Released)

Marines serving with the 1st Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, volunteered to take a scout sniper screener to have a chance of becoming part of the scout sniper platoon. Upon passing the screener, Marines are selected to become a part of the platoon and are sent to Scout Sniper Basic Course once their command is confident they’re ready. The screener consists of various activities including fitness tests, academic tests and land navigation over a period of four days with a couple hours rest in between days. Lance Cpl. Ryan Grob, Scout Sniper, Livermore, Calif, is interviewed. Available in High Definition.

Marines serving with the 1st Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, volunteered to take a scout sniper screener to have a chance of becoming part of the scout sniper platoon. Upon passing the screener, Marines are selected to become a part of the platoon and are sent to Scout Sniper Basic Course once their command is confident they’re ready. The screener consists of various activities including fitness tests, academic tests and land navigation over a period of four days with a couple hours rest in between days. Cpl. Kyle Janssen, Scout Sniper, Emmetsburg, Iowa, is interviewed. Available in High Definition.