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, the commanding general of Task Force 61/2, is welcomed aboard the Harpers Ferry-class amphibious...
U.S. Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Anthony Gomez, a tactical training team platoon sergeant with the Hershel "Woody" Williams (HWW) Marine Detachment,...
Special operations soldiers with the Republic of Cyprus National Guard conduct joint parachute insertion training alongside U.S. Marines with...
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.
Marines and Sailors with 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade (MEB) returned to Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, after completing an eight-month deployment as Task Force 61/2 (TF 61/2) in the U.S. Naval Sixth Fleet area of operations.
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The Marines and Sailors with the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable), embarked on the USS Mesa Verde (LPD 19), will be participating in an integrated Greek Bi-Lateral Exercise with the 32nd Hellenic Marine Brigade, Mediterranean Sea, Dec. 1-3, 2023.
The Marines and Sailors of the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable), embarked on the USS Mesa Verde (LPD 19), arrived in Cartagena, Spain, Oct. 4, 2023, to conduct Marine Air-Ground Task Force unit-level sustainment training and a bilateral training exercise to strengthen relations with a key NATO ally during a scheduled mid-deployment maintenance period for the USS Mesa Verde.
U.S. Marine Corps explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) operators from the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) (26MEU(SOC)) participated in Exercise Northern Challenge 2023 alongside various NATO Allies and partners, Sept. 21 to Oct. 5.
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...
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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...