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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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6th ESB conducts fifth iteration of Exercise Red Dagger

U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Mitchell R. Neimann, heavy equipment operator with Engineer Company C, 6th Engineer Support Battalion, 4th Marine Logistics Group, posts security with for fire team of Marines with 6th ESB, 4th MLG and British commando’s with 131 Commando Squadron Royal Engineers, British Army, during a simulated live scenario at the military operations on urbanized terrain, or MOUT structure, during exercise Red Dagger at Fort Indiantown Gap, Pa., May 17, 2018. Exercise Red Dagger is a bilateral training exercise that gives Marines an opportunity to exchange tactics, techniques and procedures as well as build working relationships with their British counterparts. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Melanie Wolf/Released)