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Arctic Edge 24

MFR SEAL - FLAT - 2022
U.S. Marine Corps Forces Reserve
Alaska, United States of America

 

 

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Arctic Edge (AE24) is a U.S. Northern Command-led homeland defense exercise demonstrating the U.S. military's capabilities in extreme cold weather, joint force readiness, and U.S. military commitment to mutual strategic security interests in the Arctic region.

 

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Video by Cpl. Kanoa Thomas

Arctic Edge 24: Marines conduct cold weather training exercise

  • Marine Forces Reserve (MARFORRES)
  • March 13, 2024 | 2:40

U.S. Marines participate in exercise Arctic Edge 2024 across various training locations in Alaska from Feb. 23, 2024 to March 11, 2024. The exercise consisted of High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) live-fire training, field testing of an AN/TPS-80 Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar (G/ATOR), practicing C-130 aircraft long range logistical operations to include ingress and egress of personnel and equipment, live-fire machine gun ranges, and field training with a Marine Corps Cold Weather Infantry Kit (MCCWIK). The arctic conditions allowed the Marines to refine their tactics, techniques, and procedures in a cold weather environment while testing their equipment in the extreme weather conditions. The active component and reserve Marines, alongside Army and Air Force counterparts, proved they are prepared to serve in any clime and place of their choosing across the globe. Arctic
Edge 2024 is a U.S. Northern Command-led homeland defense exercise demonstrating the U.S. military’s capabilities in extreme cold weather, joint force readiness, and U.S. military commitment to mutual strategic security interests in the Arctic region. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Kanoa Thomas and Pfc. Nicholas Bryan).

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press releases / articles

Any Clime and Place: Reserve Marines field test radar system in Alaska in support of Arctic Edge 2024
In the unforgiving cold of Alaska, U.S. Marines with Marine Air Control Squadron 24 (MACS-24), Marine Air Control Group (MACG) 48, 4th Marine Aircraft Wing, Marine Forces Reserve field-tested an...

Any Clime and Place: Fox 2/14 Marines fire HIMARS in subzero conditions during Arctic Edge 2024
Against the backdrop of a snowy landscape and amidst the gusts of a biting wind, U.S. Marines with Fox Battery, 2nd Battalion, 14th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division, Marine Forces Reserve prepare...

 
photo gallery
Marines share experiences for Red Ribbon Week
NEW ORLEANS – Sgt. Bryan Sanford, a Marine Corps Community Services Assistant with Marine Forces Reserve, speaks with students at the New Orleans Military and Maritime Academy, Oct. 29, 2015, during Red Ribbon Week. Sanford informed the students that Red Ribbon Week began a few years after the death of DEA agent and former Marine, Enrique Camarena. Agent Camarena was in the process of making a major drug bust of a Mexican drug Cartel in the 1980s. Agent Camarena, along with his pilot, were captured, tortured, and murdered for their attempted actions in 1985. In light of the situation, Agent Camarena's family and friends back home in California started "Camarena's Club" to raise drug awareness. Ultimately, this movement was brought to the attention of President and First Lady Reagan. In 1988, the first National Red Ribbon Week began. (Marine Corps Photo by Cpl. J. Gage Karwick/Released)