Marines


MTX 2022

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Mountain Warfare Training Exercise (MTX) 2022
Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center (MWTC), Bridgeport, Calif.

ABOUT 

Mountain Warfare Training Exercise (MTX) 2022 sees 1st Battalion, 24th Marines (Reinforced) conducting Mountain Exercise 4-22 aboard Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center Bridgeport, Calif., in order to sustain individual warfighting  proficiency and improve, sustain, and evaluate company-level offensive and defensive tasks as well as battalion-level planning and command and control.

 

MTX 2022 PHOTO GALLERY
western unioin pigtail splice
Cpl. Benjamin Brannon, a combat engineer with 2nd Combat Engineer Battalion and a student in the Sapper Leadership Course, connects wires to explosives during rehearsal for a demolition range aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, July 22, 2013. The method of connection, called “Western Union Pigtail Splice,” was one of many ways to prepare a charge the students of the Sapper course learned.