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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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Lt. Gen. David G. Bellon, commander of Marine Forces Reserve and Marine Forces North, hosts a reception celebrating 300 years since the founding of Algiers at his residence in the LeBeuf Plantation House in New Orleans on Nov. 20, 2019. The house is informally known as Quarters “A,” having been built in 1840 and gifted to the Marines by the Navy. Algiers is the second oldest neighborhood in the city and a historic piece of land to the history of New Orleans. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Corporal Daniel R. Betancourt Jr.)

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