Marines


SPMAGTF-SC 20

Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force, Southern Command - 2020

 

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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
Ernest C. Brace awarded Purple Heart and POW Medals
Ernest C. Brace stands with Theodore C. Lyster, mutual friend of Robert Maxwell, an Army Medal of Honor recipient, prior to his Purple Heart and Prisoner-of-War Medal award ceremony at Kingsley Air Force Base, Aug. 16, 2013. Maxwell, the only living Medal of Honor recipient in Oregon, attended the ceremony because he was invited by Lyster to celebrate Brace’s heroism.