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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. 

 

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MARFORRES commander Lt. Gen. Rex C. McMillian honors 227th Commandant Gen. Robert H. Barrow at wreath-laying ceremony

Lt. Gen. Rex C. McMillian, commander of Marine Forces North and Marine Forces Reserve, and Sgt. Maj. Anthony Spadaro, MFR/MFN sergeant major, salute the National Ensign during a wreath-laying ceremony to honor Gen. Robert H. Barrow, the 227th Commandant of the Marine Corps, at Grace Episcopal Church in St. Francisville, La., Nov. 10, 2015. Barrow’s children and several extended family and friends gathered to pay their respects to the former commandant who died Oct. 30, 2008.