Marines


Atlantic Alliance 2025

MFR SEAL - FLAT - 2022
4th Marine Division, 4th Marine Logistics Group, 4th Marine Aircraft Wing, 4th ANGLICO
East Coast, United States of America
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Atlantic Alliance 2025 (AA25), formerly Bold Alligator, is a major East Coast naval exercise running from June 27 to July 15. Key objectives include enhancing naval maneuvering, command-and-control coordination with the Marine Corps and allies. AA25 will feature training events like air assaults, reconnaissance, amphibious assaults, and simulated naval combat.

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Name:  MFR CommStrat
Address:  2000 Opelousas Ave, New Orleans, LA 70114
Phone: (504) 697-9335

eMail:  mfrcommstrat@usmc.mil

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U.S. Marine Corps Maj. John J. Carter, an aircraft maintenance officer with Marine Fighter Training Squadron (VMFT) 402, lands an F-5N Tiger II aircraft during Atlantic Alliance 2025 at Joint Base Cape Cod, Massachusetts, July 2, 2025. VMFT-402’s purpose in Atlantic Alliance is to support and enhance Navy-Marine Corps amphibious operations by providing advanced fighter training and integrating air combat capabilities into joint and allied exercises along the East Coast. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Emely Gonzalez)
Marine earns Silver Star for Vietnam heroics
Marine Sgt. Gary L. Hill was awarded the Silver Star medal at the Tuscaloosa Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center here June 7, 2013. Hill received the nation’s third highest award for combat heroism for actions as a fire team leader while he deployed to Vietnam in 1967. Retired Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen. Charles C. Krulak presented Hill with the distinction. When his platoon commander was shot and killed, then-Lance Cpl. Hill rallied his fire team to locate and kill an enemy. He then single-handedly bounded to an enemy trench line and killed three North Vietnamese Army soldiers. Hill then ordered his fire team to provide suppressive fires as he maneuvered to locate an NVA sniper. Once the sniper was exposed, Hill and his team killed the sniper and evacuated wounded comrades to safety. His actions saved the lives of eight Marines.

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