22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit - Stories

Marines with the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) Command Element practice engaging automated targets during a fire and maneuver drill at a remote shooting range known as "Hogan's Alley" outside Camp Buehring, Kuwait, Sept. 20, 2007. The 22nd MEU(SOC) is currently on a scheduled deployment serving as the theater reserve for the Central Command area of operations. - Marines with the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) Command Element practice engaging automated targets during a fire and maneuver drill at a remote shooting range known as "Hogan's Alley" outside Camp Buehring, Kuwait, Sept. 20, 2007. The 22nd MEU(SOC) is currently on a scheduled deployment serving as the theater reserve for the Central Command area of operations.

Command Element Marines go grunt for a day

Cpl. Matthew Wright stood in a hard-packed clearing between the sandy dunes, intently cleaning his weapon with a Marlboro cigarette hanging expertly from his left hand. He cleaned his weapon often, and rarely seemed pleased with the results. He joined the Marine Corps three and a half years ago to learn a job he has never done. Instead of

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Lima Company assaults fake city with real rounds

Marines from Lima Company, Battalion Landing Team, 3rd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable), conducted a live-fire supported assault on a Military Operations in Urban Terrain (MOUT) facility near Camp Buehring, Kuwait recently.The training area, set in the middle of the open Kuwaiti desert,

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22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) Conducts HEAT Training

Since the beginning of the current war in Iraq, a herculean effort has been put into combating the weaknesses and safety issues of the original M998P1 humvee. The outcome of those efforts is a "souped-up," 12,000 pound up-armored beast known as the M1151.According to HEAT instructor, Army Sgt. Kelvin Johnson of Winnsboro, S.C., statistics found

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Two humvees from Security Platoon, Combat Logistics Battalion 22, 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable), rush to take up guarding positions after a simulated strike from an improvised explosive device during a convoy security training course held near Camp Buehring, Kuwait, Sept. 19, 2007. CLB-22 serves as the Logistics Combat Element of the 22nd MEU(SOC), which is conducting sustainment training in Kuwait as part of a scheduled deployment. - Two humvees from Security Platoon, Combat Logistics Battalion 22, 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable), rush to take up guarding positions after a simulated strike from an improvised explosive device during a convoy security training course held near Camp Buehring, Kuwait, Sept. 19, 2007. CLB-22 serves as the Logistics Combat Element of the 22nd MEU(SOC), which is conducting sustainment training in Kuwait as part of a scheduled deployment.

Combat Logistics Battalion 22 conducts convoy security training

Putting a little more of the combat in Combat Logistics Battalion, Marines and sailors from the Security Platoon for Combat Logistics Battalion 22, 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable), conducted a convoy security training course recently in order to sharpen their skills in defending logistical movements from attacks and

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