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
ABOUT 

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.

Media Contact Information

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

eMail:  mfrcommstrat@usmc.mil

news  /  PHOTOS  /  VIDEOS
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)
Bronze Star awarded posthumously to Marine for valor in combat
Maj. James Nolan, Inspector-Instructor for Headquarters and Service Company and Weapons Company, 1st Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, presents the Bronze Star Medal with Combat Distinguishing Device to Karen Vasselian during a ceremony 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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