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SPMAGTF-SC 20

This page archives news and photos from Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force - Southern Command in 2020. It highlights deployments and training, showcasing MARFORRES operational readiness and global engagement.

 

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From Jun to Dec 2020, SPMAGTF-SC 20, in coordination with Partner Nations and US Government entities, forward deploys to execute opportune maritime engagements, theater security cooperation, and foreign humanitarian assistance in the SOUTHCOM AOR to increase interoperability between U.S. and select partner naval forces, build a more lethal force, and increase PN ability to export security.  BPT support limited crisis response. 

 

PHOTO GALLERY

Marines ice fish with Alaskan natives

Cpl. Gabriel Castroena, an electrician with 4th Medical Battalion, 4th Marine Logistics Group, Marine Forces Reserve, and a native of San Bernardino, Calif., helps Jung In, a local fishing enthusiast, dig a hole in ice with an auger on the outskirts of Kotzebue, Alaska, April. 17. In, who invited the Marines to ice fish, said they were really eager to help and handled the machine really well.