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Marines with Company F, 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force conducted Tactical Recovery of Aircraft and Personnel training aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., Nov. 17, 2015. The training focused on introducing the company to methods of evacuating downed air crew members and testing their performance capabilities.

Marines with 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, prepare to depart on a Landing Craft Air Cushion from the USS Boxer for an amphibious landing during Exercise Dawn Blitz, Sept. 5, 2015. Dawn Blitz is a multinational amphibious training exercise including Expeditionary Strike Group Three and 1st Marine Expeditionary Brigade. Coalition partners participating in the exercise include Japan, Mexico, New Zealand and observers from Chile, Australia and Colombia.

U.S. Marines with Company C, 1st Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, Marine Rotational Force - Darwin, and soldiers with Delta Company, 5th Battalion, the Royal Australian Regiment, conduct helicopter raid training with a CH-53E helicopter from Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 463, Aug. 7 at the Kangaroo Flats Training Area, Northern Territory, Australia. Company C is a part of the Marine Air Ground Task Force that is composed of an aviation, ground and logistics combat element to create MRF-D. The rotational deployment in Darwin enables Marines to more effectively train, exercise and operate with their partners, enhancing regional security and building a capacity to respond more rapidly to natural disasters and crises throughout the region. Also available in high definition.

U.S. Marines with Combined Anti-Armor Team 1, Weapons Company, 1st Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, Marine Rotational Force – Darwin, and Australian soldiers with Direct Fire Support Weapon Platoon, 5th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, 1st Brigade, conduct bilateral live-fire training during Exercise Predator Walk, May 20 to June 5, at Mount Bundey Training Area, Northern Territory, Australia. The exercises included firing heavy machine guns and missiles at mock targets from a support by fire position. Exercise Predator Walk is a battalion-level combined-arms Marine Air Ground Task Force exercise with the Australian Army, designed to enhance the skills of the ground combat, aviation combat and support element. (U.S. Marine Corps Video by Cpl. Reba James)

U.S. Marines with Chemical Biological Radiological Nuclear, Headquarters Battalion, 1st Marine Division, conduct hazardous material training during Exercise Desert Scimitar 2015 at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, Calif., April 11, 2015. DS 15 is a combined arms exercise focused on the training and preparation of 1STMARDIV for deployment as the Ground Combat Element of a Marine Air-Ground Task Force. (U.S. Marine Corps Motion Imagery by Sergeant James D. Pauly IV/Released)

The newest group of students and instructors for Weapons and Tactics Instructor Course 2-15 just arrived at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Sunday, to begin the seven-week course. Hosted by Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron One, the WTI class will be the largest class to graduate from MAWTS-1. Students will learn and apply the latest in air-to-air combat, air-to-ground communications and Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief tactics. Highlights of WTI will include a scenario-based, Non-Combatant Evacuation Operation and multiple large-scale, combined arms exercises.