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Marines


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 refurbish housing facility

Cpl. Joseph Dutton, from Brookline, Vermont, pries nails loose in the wooden flooring in an old military housing facility, Jan. 9, 2015, during exercise Lava Viper 15-1.2. at Kawaihae Harbor, Hawaii. The housing facility is used by various military branches as a safe house while waiting for ships to arrive with vehicles and supplies. Combat engineers with Marine Wing Support Squadron-472, Marine Aircraft Group 49, 4th Marine Air Wing has been tasked to refurbish the facility because the building is deteriorating.