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Marines


Arctic Edge 2026

Artic Edge 26
VMR-1 and 2/14 HIRAIN
The Arctic

 

ABOUT 

AE26 is a North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and U.S. Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) Tier 2 Joint Field Training Exercise (FTX) in the Alaska Theater of Operations (AKTO). AE26 will also include USNORTHCOM activities in Greenland, focusing on joint and combined homeland defense readiness and operations in the Arctic region. AE26 is aligned with Large Scale Global Exercise 26 (LSGE26), a globally integrated joint force FTX with defense partners and interagency organizations intended to shape the strategic operating environment, promote global integration and integrated deterrence, and mitigate strategic risk.



Media Contact Information

Name:      First Lieutenant Quiarra Barros
Address:  2000 Opelousas Ave, New Orleans, LA 70114
Phone:     (504) 697-9339
eMail:       mfrcommstrat@usmc.mil

 

 

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4th MAW leaders attend memorial and celebration in Mississippi
Phil Bryant (center), the governor of Mississippi, and his wife Deborah Bryant, bow their heads in prayer during the invocation, led by Ray Bridges (right), at the Mississippi Bicentennial Celebration, in Moorhead, Miss., Oct. 19, 2017. The Moorhead Garden Club held Mississippi's 200th birthday in Moorhead to not only celebrate the state's birthday, but to also honor, and pay tribute to, the 15 Marines and one sailor who perished in a C-130 plane crash on July 10, 2017, in the nearby county of Leflore. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Dallas Johnson)