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Marines


RILEY XANTEN II

This page archives news and photos from Exercise RILEY-XANTEN II in 2017. It highlights deployments and training, showcasing MARFORRES operational readiness and global engagement.

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Marines from 1st Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division, participate in exercise Riley Xanten II, in Burwash, Ontario, Feb. 3-5, 2017. During the exercise, the Marines joined soldiers from the Canadian Armed Forces to exchange knowledge and increase proficiency in cold weather tactics, survival skills, shelter building, ice fishing, and more.

 

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Suheil Sitto (center), a civilian interpreter and Iraq-native, enables Capt. Joseph Graves, a platoon commander with Company G, 2nd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment to communicate with an Iraqi Police officer (role player) to work together to quell civil unrest in a notional Iraqi town constructed at Marine Corps Air-Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, Calif. Role players and interpreters are used to add a sense of realism to the pre-deployment training for the Marines. The July 21, 2008 training event marked the end of a week-long, battalion-level training evolution for the battalion, which is headed to Iraq this fall.

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