U.S. Marines with H&S Company, 1st Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division, Marine Forces Reserve, rappel down a cliff during a training event at Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center, Bridgeport, Calif., July 22, 2022, for Mountain Training Exercise 4-22. MTX 4-22 allowed reserve Marines to participate in mountain warfare operations for realistic combat training in order to facilitate increased readiness for the Marine Forces Reserve. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Jonathan L. Gonzalez)

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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Loaded down with weapons and ammunition, an Echo Company machine gun squad trudges through the morning heat toward Machine Gun Hill at Range 400 here to provide direct support for a platoon assault during a live-fire exercise July 1, 2008. The reserve company, headquartered in Harrisburg, Pa., is headed to Iraq in the fall with 2nd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment.

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Tags: Range 400, ILOC, Echo 2/25, Machine Gun Hill, Machine Gun Crew, 2nd Battalion 25th Marines, Predeployment Training, Twentynine Palms, M240B machine gun

Photo by: Capt. Paul Greenberg | VIRIN: 080701-M-0000C-000.jpg

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