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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

Two Marines killed in Chattanooga shooting receive highest non-combat award

Col. Joseph Russo, command officer of 14th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division, along with Col. Jeffrey Smitherman, commanding officer for 6th Marine Recruiting District, greet the family members of Gunnery Sgt. Thomas Sullivan and Staff Sgt. David Wyatt, at Ross’s Landing in Chattanooga, Tenn., May 7, 2017. Sullivan and Wyatt were posthumously awarded the medal for their actions during the July 16, 2015 shooting that occurred at the Naval Reserve Center Chattanooga that left two other Marines and a sailor dead. (U.S. Marine Corps Photo by Lance Cpl. Niles Lee/Released)

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Photo by: Lance Cpl. Niles Lee |  VIRIN: 170507-M-HG783-001.JPG