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Marines


MTX 2022

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

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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.