Marines


MTX 4-23

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Mountain Training Exercise, 4-23
Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center, Bridgeport, Ca.

ABOUT 

"Marines from 2nd Battalion 23d Marine Regiment will conduct mountain training exercises aboard Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center, Bridgeport allowing Marines to sustain warfighting functions while participating in realistic combat training in a mountainous environment. The purpose of MTX is to facilitate increased readiness and to challenge units’ ability to plan and perform."

 

MTX 4-23 PHOTO GALLERY
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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.