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U.S. Marine Corps Master Gunnery Sgt. Milton Donatus, operations chief with 3rd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, visits his hometown of Ngkeklau in the state of Ngaraard and the surrounding Palauan community in support of Koa Moana 24’s efforts at Koror, Palau, July 15, 2024. Donatus, the first-ever Palauan native to make the rank of E-9, wanted to return to his home country to support his Koa Moana Marine Corps brothers and sisters. During Koa Moana’s deployment throughout the Indo-Pacific region, U.S. Marines and Sailors from I Marine Expeditionary Force work to strengthen alliances and partnerships with development of interoperable capabilities, combined operations, theater security cooperation, and capacity-building efforts. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Sgt. Nello Miele) This video contains music from a USMC enterprise licensed asset from De Wolfe: Love For Life _ No Bass Or Drums Mix_RMCD 2089_40 Matthew Sanchez and Steve Dymond and Robert Edwards_Rouge Music Ltd and Free_RMCD 2086_08 Bob Bradley_Rouge Music Ltd.

U.S. Marines with 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, also known as the "War Dogs," engage targets using the M110 semi-automatic sniper system and the MK13 sniper rifle as part of a training and evaluation exercise with a mobile training team from Weapons Training Battalion and the Marine Corps Warfighting Lab on Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, California, March 13-15, 2023. The training team evaluated Marines assigned as designated marksmen on their ability to provide precision fires in support of rifle company operations using the M110 and the MK13. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Sgt. Cristian Bestul and Lance Cpl. Juan Torres)

U.S. Marines with 1st Marine Division participate in the annual 1st MARDIV squad competition at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, Feb. 5-10, 2023. The week-long squad competition incorporates a variety of combat-related tasks designed to evaluate each squad's proficiency and determine the most lethal squad in the division. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Sgt. Jacob Yost)

U.S. Marines with 1st Marine Division participate in a ceremony honoring the division’s 82nd anniversary at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, Feb. 1, 2023. Marines and sailors of the division, both past and present, participated in the ceremony celebrating the oldest, largest and most decorated division in the Marine Corps. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Sgt. Jacob Yost)

U.S. Marines with 1st Marine Division participate in Steel Knight 23 at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, and San Clemente Island, California, Nov. 28-Dec. 16, 2022. Steel Knight is a combined arms live-fire exercise involving the major subordinate commands of I Marine Expeditionary Force and the U.S. Navy’s Expeditionary Strike Group 3. Steel Knight ensures 1st Marine Division is optimized for naval expeditionary warfare in contested spaces, and is purpose-built to facilitate future operations afloat and ashore. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Sgt. Frank Webb)

Marines with Marine Wing Support Squadron 373 walk us through the basics of how a permanent runway is built. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Mark A. Lowe II)

Marines with 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing (MAW) put their extracurricular skills to use in their free time during reconstruction of the Catalina Airport in the Sky runway. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Mark A. Lowe II/ Released)

U.S. Marine is not a title that can be earned or kept effortlessly. Marines are expected to continuously preform above and beyond the call of duty as exemplified by the high proficiencies of Lance Cpl. Anthony Doten, an infantry marine with 1st Battalion, 5th Marines. Doten’s critical thinking, decisiveness, and quick reactions make him a suitable candidate for a billet that is usually filled by a sergeant of marines, two ranks above his own position. His command entrusts him with the heavy responsibility of independent small unit leadership, and the marines under Doten trust him with their lives. Together they train to maintain and increase unit lethality during exercise Steel Knight 2019 (SK19) at Marine Corps Air-Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, Calif. Dec. 06, 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 photo illustration by Cpl. Rhita Daniel)

Sgt. Phillip O'Shea, Forward Coordination Element data chief, Marine Rotational Force Darwin 17.2, uses sports and competitive spirit to build camaraderie with Australians in Darwin, Australia, April 29, 2017. The drive he uses to push his body to the limit for victory is the same that pushes him to never let the mates to his left and right down. O'Shea is from Mission Viejo, Calif.

Marine Corps Base Camp Penleton, Calif. (July 13, 2016)—Marines with 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment test equipment provided by the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory, July 12-14, 2016 on Camp Pendleton, Calif. The equipment they are testing ranges from unmanned ground and aerial vehicles, new technology in expeditionary medicine, reusable energy and water purifying systems. The Warfighting Labs identifies possible challenges of the future and develops new warfighting concepts and tests new ideas to help develop equipment that meets the challenges of the future operating environment.

MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. – Master Gunnery Sgt. Brian Ivers describes how the Marine Corps has influenced him during an interview at Camp Pendleton April 21, 2016. He shared his experiences during the Liberation of Kuwait and how it felt to return to the area 25 years later. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Caitlin Bevel)

U.S. Marines with Marine Air Ground Task Force 5, conduct Integrated Training Exercise 2-16 at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, Calif., Jan. 22- Feb. 18, 2016. ITX is a MAGTF sized training event led by the 5th Marine Regiment, to exercise units from across the Marine Corps, some which will forward deploy later this year with various elements to create the Special Purpose Marine Air Ground Task Force Crisis Response Central Command 16.2, to meet their operational requirements across the range of military operations. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Chelsey K. Courtney/Released)