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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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Reserve Marines complete first Joint Fires Observer primer course
Lance Cpl. William Lents, a forward observer with 4th Air Naval Ground Liaison Company, Force Headquarters Group, Marine Forces Reserve, utilizes M22 binoculars to calibrate a vector so he can find the distance and direction of, and for, a target at Avon Park Air Force Range in Avon Park, Florida, Aug. 11, 2017. During the final exercise, students were given the opportunity to not only utilize equipment but to also gain valuable insight of what real-world operations would feel like when they become JFO's.