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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. 

 

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WWII POW Pvt. Marvin Rolansky visits New Orleans for veteran’s reunion and conference
Pvt. Marvin A. Rolansky, a World War II Marine veteran and Prisoner of War Medal of Honor recipient, is greeted by Cpl. Jordan L. Bradford, a recruiting and retention clerk with Marine Forces Reserve, at Louis Armstrong International Airport in Kenner, La., June 3, 2015. Rolansky was captured by the Japanese after the fall of Guam on Dec. 9, 1941, and spent four years in a labor camp until his return to U.S. military control in 1945 after the end of the war. Rolansky is one of a group of WWII POWs who visited New Orleans for the American Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor Memorial Society Reunion June 2-6, 2015.