MTX 2022

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.

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Bronze Star awarded posthumously to Marine for valor in combat

First Sgt. Shane Dillon addresses the friends and family of Sgt. Daniel Vasselian before posthumously awarding him the Bronze Star Medal with Combat Distinguishing Device Oct. 13, in front of the American Legion’s Lewis V. Dorsey Post 112 War Memorial in Abington, Mass. Karen’s son, Sgt. Daniel Vasselian was posthumously awarded the Bronze Star Medal with Combat Distinguishing Device for combat actions while on his third deployment to Afghanistan. Daniel’s wife, Erin Vasselian, and parents, Karen and Mark Vasselian, each were presented with medals during the ceremony. Daniel was killed in action Dec. 23, 2013 in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.

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Tags: KIA, Killed in Action, Karen Vasselian, Lewis V. Dorsey Post 112 War Memorial, Sgt. Daniel Vasselian, Combat Distinguishing Device, deployment to Afghanistan, Erin Vasselian, Mark Vasselian, American Legion, afghanistan, helmand province, Posthumous, Bronze Star Medal

Photo by: Sgt. Richard Blumenstein | VIRIN: 141013-M-RU378-013.JPG

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