Readiness

Marine Corps Reserve Maj. John Fitzsimmons (center), commanding officer of Company G, 2nd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, leads a patrol of Marines in an urban training facility aboard here July 19, 2008. Fitzsimmons deployed to Iraq’s western Al Anbar Province with his company from the fall of 2008, conducting counterinsurgency operations in and around the rural town of Akashat. In his civilian career, Fitzsimmons is a commercial real estate property manager for an international company based in New York City.