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I MEF provides the Marine Corps a globally responsive, expeditionary, and fully scalable Marine Air-Ground Task Force (MAGTF), capable of generating, deploying, and employing ready forces and formations for crisis response, forward presence, major combat operations, and campaigns. 

 

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U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Bridget Bastian and Lance Cpl. Jonathan Fer, both combat engineers attached to Task Force Al Asad with Marine Wing Support Squadron (MWSS) 372 ,Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force-Crisis Response-Central Command, improve force protection measures by laying concertina wire at Al Asad Air Base, Iraq, July 6, 2017. The Marines of the Engineering Detachment work daily on a variety of engineer tasks in support of the master base plan for Task Force Al Asad. Task Force Al Asad’s mission is to advise and assist and build partner capacity with the Iraqi Security Forces in Al Anbar province in support of Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve, the global coalition to defeat ISIS in Iraq and Syria. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by 1st Lt. Dave Williams) - U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Bridget Bastian and Lance Cpl. Jonathan Fer, both combat engineers attached to Task Force Al Asad with Marine Wing Support Squadron (MWSS) 372 ,Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force-Crisis Response-Central Command, improve force protection measures by laying concertina wire at Al Asad Air Base, Iraq, July 6, 2017. The Marines of the Engineering Detachment work daily on a variety of engineer tasks in support of the master base plan for Task Force Al Asad. Task Force Al Asad’s mission is to advise and assist and build partner capacity with the Iraqi Security Forces in Al Anbar province in support of Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve, the global coalition to defeat ISIS in Iraq and Syria. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by 1st Lt. Dave Williams)

From left to right, Sgt. Michael Roman, Capt. Andres Zuniga, and Cpl. James S. Frost, form the Comptroller Team for the Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force-Crisis Response-Central Command while deployed to the Middle East, July 25, 2017. Throughout their eight-month deployment, the team identified approximately $800,000 of allocated yet unspent funds which allowed for the purchase of additional products to enhance the command’s ability to react to any mission they may encounter while conducting USCENTCOM’s crisis response mission. - From left to right, Sgt. Michael Roman, Capt. Andres Zuniga, and Cpl. James S. Frost, form the Comptroller Team for the Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force-Crisis Response-Central Command while deployed to the Middle East, July 25, 2017. Throughout their eight-month deployment, the team identified approximately $800,000 of allocated yet unspent funds which allowed for the purchase of additional products to enhance the command’s ability to react to any mission they may encounter while conducting USCENTCOM’s crisis response mission.

I MEF Commanding General Succession of Command Ceremony
I Marine Expeditionary Force
Aug. 18, 2023 | 01:21:59
I MEF Commanding General Succession of Command Ceremony
I Marine Expeditionary Force
Aug. 18, 2023 | 01:21:59
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I MEF Leaders

Major General Bradford J. Gering
Commanding General, I Marine Expeditionary Force (Acting)

Major General Gering assumed the duties of Commanding General, I Marine Expeditionary Force (Acting) on 18 August 2023. A native of Smithtown, New York, he graduated Binghamton University and was commissioned via the Platoon Leaders Class program in May 1989. Following The Basic School, he completed flight training and was designated an AV-8B Harrier Pilot.

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Brigadier General Robert C. Fulford
Deputy Commanding General, I Marine Expeditionary Force

Brigadier General Fulford was commissioned in 1992 after graduation from the United States Naval Academy. A career infantry officer, his assignments in the Fleet Marine Force include Rifle Platoon Commander and Combined Anti-Armor Team Platoon Commander in Battalion Landing Team 1/4 including deployments with the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit

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Colonel Samuel L. Meyer
Chief of Staff, I Marine Expeditionary Force

Samuel “Lee” Meyer graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Engineering from NC State University and was commissioned in May 1997.  Following graduation from The Basic School and Infantry Officer Course in March 1998, he was assigned to flight school in Pensacola, FL and designated a Naval Aviator in August 2000.

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Sergeant Major Peter A. Siaw
Command Senior Enlisted Leader, I Marine Expeditionary Force

Sergeant Major Peter A. Siaw was born in Chicago, Illinois and began recruit training in April 1993 aboard Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, California. Upon graduation, he was meritoriously promoted to the rank of Lance Corporal and continued to Marine Combat Training aboard Camp Pendleton, California, and Personnel Administration School

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CMDCM(FMF/SW/AW/IW) Charles F. Ziervogel
Command Master Chief

Master Chief Ziervogel enlisted in the Navy in August of 1989. Following Basic Training in Orlando, Florida he successfully completed the Navy Nuclear Power Training Pipeline. From October 1991 to December 1996 he served as a member of Reactor Control Division onboard USS Nebraska (SSBN 739 Gold) through New Construction and Commissioning,

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