Videos

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)

U.S. Marines with the 1st Marine Division participate in a change of command ceremony held at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., July 6, 2018. The ceremony represented the transfer of responsibility, authority and accountability from Maj. Gen. Eric M. Smith, the outgoing commanding general, to Maj. Gen. Robert F. Castellvi, the incoming commanding general.(U.S. Marine Corps Video by Lance Cpl. Preston Hightower)

U.S. Marines with the 1st Marine Division participate in a change of command ceremony held at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., July 6, 2018. The ceremony represented the transfer of responsibility, authority and accountability from Maj. Gen. Eric M. Smith, the outgoing commanding general, to Maj. Gen. Robert F. Castellvi, the incoming commanding general. (U.S. Marine Corps Video by Lance Cpl. Preston Hightower)

U.S. Marines with the 1st Marine Division participate in a change of command ceremony held at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., July 6, 2018. The ceremony represented the transfer of responsibility, authority and accountability from Maj. Gen. Eric M. Smith, the outgoing commanding general, to Maj. Gen. Robert F. Castellvi, the incoming commanding general. (U.S. Marine Corps Video by Lance Cpl. Preston Hightower)

U.S. Marines with the 1st Marine Division participate in a change of command ceremony held at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., July 6, 2018. The ceremony represented the transfer of responsibility, authority and accountability from Maj. Gen. Eric M. Smith, the outgoing commanding general, to Maj. Gen. Robert F. Castellvi, the incoming commanding general. (U.S. Marine Corps Video by Lance Cpl. Preston Hightower)

U.S. Marines with the 1st Marine Division participate in a change of command ceremony held at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., July 6, 2018. The ceremony represented the transfer of responsibility, authority and accountability from Maj. Gen. Eric M. Smith, the outgoing commanding general, to Maj. Gen. Robert F. Castellvi, the incoming commanding general. (U.S. Marine Corps Video by Lance Cpl. Preston Hightower)

Family, veterans, U.S. Marines and Sailors with 1st Marine Division Headquarters Battalion, take part in the Silver Star Ceremony presented to the family of Lt. Philip H. Sauer at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., April 25, 2018, Calif. A silver star was awarded posthumously to Sauer for his actions while serving with 1st Battalion, 9th Marines in the Republic of Vietnam on 24 April 1967. (U.S. Marine Corps Video by Cpl. Christopher Thompson)