U.S. Marine Corps Brig. Gen. James W. Lively, left, the oncoming commanding general of 2d Marine Expeditionary Brigade, and Col. Andrew V. Martinez,...
U.S. Marines with Fox Battery, 2nd Battalion, 14th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division, fire rockets from a M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket...
U.S. Marine Corps Brig. Gen. Samuel Meyer, middle, the outgoing commanding general of 2d Marine Expeditionary Brigade, passes the colors to Col....
Polish Mi-17 twin-turbine, medium-lift transport helicopter pilots conduct deck landing qualifications aboard the Blue Ridge-class command and...
U.S. Navy and NATO Allied ships participate in a steam formation during exercise Baltic Operations 2025 in the Baltic Sea, June 5, 2025. BALTOPS 25,...
U.S. Marines and Sailors with Task Force 61/2 pose for a group photo at Naval Support Activity, Naples, Italy, Oct. 10, 2024. Task Force 61/2's...
U.S. Marines and Sailors with Battalion Landing Team 1/8 conduct a memorial run in remembrance of the 1983 Marine barracks bombing in Beirut,...
U.S. Marine Corps Brig. Gen. Samuel L. Meyer, left, the commanding general of Task Force 61/2, and Sgt. Maj. Elena M. Rodriguez, the command senior...
The MEB Command Element (CE) provides a Marine Air Ground Task Force /Joint Task Force(MAGTF/JTF)-capable headquarters that can rapidly deploy and when directed composites with naval and / or land-based forward-deployed and/or rapidly deployable forces to form a MAGTF or the core element of a JTF headquarters in order to fulfill Geographic Combatant Commander (GCC) operational requirements.
Brigadier General Lively is a native of Dallas, Texas. He graduated from Texas A&M University and was commissioned in 1996. His career as an infantry officer includes company command in 1st Bn, 5th Marine Regiment and 2d Bn, 2d Marine Regiment; command of Battalion Landing Team 2/6, 26th Marine...
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Col Martinez is a native of San Antonio, Texas. He enlisted in the Marine Corps in August of 1987. LCpl Martinez was assigned to 1st Battalion 5th Marine Regiment where he served as a mortarman subsequently deploying on the Unit Deployment Program (UDP) to Okinawa and participating in Operation...
Sergeant Major Elena M. Rodriguez is a native of Toppenish, Washington. She attended recruit training at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, South Carolina on 22 February 2000 and was meritoriously promoted to the rank of Private First Class. After completing recruit training, she reported to...