Marines


Gunslinger 22

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Exercise Gunslinger 2022
Smoky Hill Air National Guard Range, Kansas

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Gunslinger is a large military exercise conducted by the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve’s 4th Marine Aircraft Wing, and the Kansas Air National Guard’s 134th Air Control Squadron of McConnell Air Force Base. More than 1,300 Marines from 11 home training centers across the country have deployed to multiple areas throughout Kansas to participate in Gunslinger 22.

 

GUNSLINGER 22 PHOTO GALLERY
Plans for Marine Corps Reserve to Take On Expanded Role in Partnership with II MEF Underway
Col. Andrew Shriver, Assistant Chief of Staff, G-8, discusses force design and establishing a crisis response force Dec. 14, 2021, at Marine Corps Support Facility New Orleans. II MEF and MARFORRES are the Marine Corps’ service-retained forces administratively and operationally controlled by the Marine Corps instead of a combatant command, such as most Marines stationed in California and Japan who are aligned to support U.S. Indo-Pacific Command. The planning team is designing an active and Reserve contingency response force that could go anywhere worldwide outside the Indo-Pacific Command area of responsibility at a moment’s notice during a crisis. MARFORRES and II MEF are the Marine Corps’ service-retained forces, which means they are administratively and operationally controlled by the Marine Corps. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Mitchell Collyer)

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