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A scout sniper team with Battalion Landing Team, 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Expeditionary Unit, fire on targets during a training exercise aboard Stone Bay, Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, N.C., March 15, 2011. The Marines and sailors of the 22nd MEU are currently deployed with Amphibious Squadron 6 aboard USS Bataan Amphibious Ready Group and will continue to conduct a series of progressively complex exercises designed to train and test the MEU’s ability to operate as a cohesive and effective Marine Air Ground Task Force. - A scout sniper team with Battalion Landing Team, 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Expeditionary Unit, fire on targets during a training exercise aboard Stone Bay, Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, N.C., March 15, 2011. The Marines and sailors of the 22nd MEU are currently deployed with Amphibious Squadron 6 aboard USS Bataan Amphibious Ready Group and will continue to conduct a series of progressively complex exercises designed to train and test the MEU’s ability to operate as a cohesive and effective Marine Air Ground Task Force.

22nd MEU Snipers Perfect Skills in Marksmanship

A Marine sniper and observer can pinpoint a target and silently eliminate an enemy threat with uncanny precision from more than 1,000 yards away.Preparing a sniper team to make difficult shots in combat requires thousands of rehearsal shots at the firing range.To train for an upcoming deployment with the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit, scout

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Mortars Hurry Up and Train

Marines with Weapons Company, Battalion Landing Team, 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit, fired mortar rounds at a training range aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, N.C., March 15, 2011. The Marines fired 81mm mortars as part of a three-day fire support capabilities exercise integrating different fire support

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Landing Craft Air Cushion 25 prepares to land aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune’s Onslow Beach during a training exercise with the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit, March 11, 2011. The Marines and sailors of the 22nd MEU are currently deployed with Amphibious Squadron 6 aboard USS Bataan Amphibious Ready Group and will continue to conduct a series of progressively complex exercises designed to train and test the MEU’s ability to operate as a cohesive and effective Marine Air Ground Task Force. - Landing Craft Air Cushion 25 prepares to land aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune’s Onslow Beach during a training exercise with the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit, March 11, 2011. The Marines and sailors of the 22nd MEU are currently deployed with Amphibious Squadron 6 aboard USS Bataan Amphibious Ready Group and will continue to conduct a series of progressively complex exercises designed to train and test the MEU’s ability to operate as a cohesive and effective Marine Air Ground Task Force.

22nd MEU Marines Load Vehicles Aboard Landing Craft

In an effort to prepare for an upcoming deployment to the Mediterranean, Marines and sailors with the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit practiced loading tactical vehicles on and off a Navy Landing Craft Air Cushion platform, March 11, 2011, at Onslow Beach, Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, N.C. The LCAC, a vessel with an inflatable hull and a set of

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Marines Work to Qualify Before Deployment

Marines with tank platoon, Battalion Landing Team, 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit, conducted a M1A1 Abrams tank gunnery range exercise aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, N.C., March 11, 2011. The range was part of their required, semi-annual tank gunnery qualifications.“It’s a sort of quality control,” said

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Marines Train for Current Events

Marines with Battalion Landing Team, 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit, conducted non-combatant evacuation training aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, N.C., March 9, 2011.A non-combatant evacuation operation is conducted at the request of the U.S. Ambassador of a U.S. diplomatic mission needing assistance to

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Corporal Timothy Dorsey, a sensor surveillance operator with the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit, carefully covers surveillance equipment during an operational check aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, N.C., March 10, 2010. This equipment will survey areas of interest during the MEU's upcoming deployment. The Marine and sailors of the 22nd MEU are currently participating in their pre-deployment training program, which is a series of progressively complex exercises designed to train and test the MEU's ability to operate as a cohesive and effective Marine Air Ground Task Force. - Corporal Timothy Dorsey, a sensor surveillance operator with the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit, carefully covers surveillance equipment during an operational check aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, N.C., March 10, 2010. This equipment will survey areas of interest during the MEU's upcoming deployment. The Marine and sailors of the 22nd MEU are currently participating in their pre-deployment training program, which is a series of progressively complex exercises designed to train and test the MEU's ability to operate as a cohesive and effective Marine Air Ground Task Force.