Force Headquarters Group

Behind the historic yellow brick façade of the Austin Community College Campus is a sleek modern workspace with massive computer monitors and floor-to-ceiling white boards, dotted with neon sticky notes and scribbled handwriting. Here, during a two-week “coding sprint” from 17 to 28 March, 2025, Marines from the Marine Innovation Unit and the Marine Corps Software Factory worked together to develop new capabilities for deployment across the Marine Corps.

U.S. Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Mark Cunningham (right), commanding general, Force Headquarters Group, Marine Forces Reserve, receives a plaque from Lt. Gen. Leonard Anderson IV, commander, Marine Forces Reserve and Marine Forces South, during his promotion ceremony at Marine Corps Support Facility, New Orleans, Jan. 6, 2025. Cunningham was promoted from the rank of brigadier general to major general. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Van Hoang)

U.S. Marine Corps Capt. Michael McDonald, dressed as Santa Claus, hands a student a toy at June Nelson Elementary School, Kotzebue, Alaska, Dec. 5, 2024. McDonald, inspector-instructor for Detachment Delta Company, 4th Law Enforcement Battalion, Force Headquarters Group, Marine Forces Reserve, along with members of the Air Force and Navy, passed out toys to local school children during this year’s Toys for Tots operation. The Toys for Tots mission exemplifies the Marine Corps spirit in the Last Frontier, strengthening community ties while sharpening the Marines' readiness for Arctic operations. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Ethan M. LeBlanc)

U.S. Marines load snowmobiles and gear onto a C-130 Super Hercules at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Dec. 4, 2024. Marines with Company D, 4th Law Enforcement Battalion, Force Headquarters Group, Marine Forces Reserve, and Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron 153, Marine Aircraft Group 24, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, loaded snowmobiles and gear onto the aircraft for upcoming Toys for Tots missions in Kotzebue and Barrow, Alaska. The Toys for Tots mission exemplifies the Marine Corps spirit in the Last Frontier, strengthening community ties while sharpening the Marines' readiness for Arctic operations. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Ethan M. LeBlanc)

U.S. Marines with Headquarters Battalion, Marine Forces Reserve, participate in a field exercise at Camp Shelby, Mississippi, March 27-31, 2023. Headquarters Battalion conducts yearly field exercises where Marines practice and sustain fundamental skills, including land navigation, patrolling, and night shooting. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Ryan Schmid) The music within the following video production is copyright material used under license with HookSounds contract dated 1 Dec 2023.

U.S. Marine Corps Brig. Gen. Raymond Adams (left), outgoing commanding general, Force Headquarters Group, Marine Forces Reserve, and Brig. Gen. Mark Cunningham (right), incoming commanding general, Force Headquarters Group, stand at attention during a change of command ceremony at Marine Corps Support Facility New Orleans, July 1, 2024. The change of command ceremony represents the official passing of authority from the outgoing commander to the incoming commander. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Juan Diaz)

U.S. Marines with Delta Company, 4th Law Enforcement Battalion (4th LEB), Force Headquarters Group, U.S. Marine Corps Forces Reserve, first deployed to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in April 2024 to provide security to Marines, Sailors, Soldiers, and their assets participating in support of Exercise Native Fury 24. Delta Company’s mission is to provide inner perimeter security for initial staging and logistics areas in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in support of 2nd Distribution Support Battalion, Combat Logistics Regiment 2, 2nd Marine Logistics Group (MLG) and to provide security alongside Saudi and Emirati forces throughout the exercise as it progresses from Kingdom Saudi Arabia to the United Arab Emirates.

U.S. Marines, assigned to 4th Law Enforcement Battalion, Force Headquarters Group, U.S. Marine Corps Forces Reserve, conduct a battlesight zero range in support of Eager Lion 24 at Camp Titin, Jordan, May 11, 2024. Eager Lion 24 is a multilateral exercise, with 33 participating nations, hosted by the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, designed to exchange military expertise, and improve interoperability among partner nations, and considered the capstone of a broader U.S. military relationship with the Jordanian Armed Forces. Jordan is one of U.S. Central Command’s strongest and most reliable partners in the Levant sub-region. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Staff Sgt. Jestin Costa)

U.S. Marines with 6th Air Naval Gunfire Liaison Company, perform motivational pushups with Brig. Gen. Raymond L. Adams, commanding general, Force Headquarters Group, and Sgt. Maj. Russell D. Boley, sergeant major, FHG, before a change of command ceremony at Joint Base Lewis–McChord, Washington, May 4, 2024. During the ceremony, Lt. Col. Dominic Fattore passed command of 6th ANGLICO to Lt. Col. Candice Creecy, who is the first female commanding officer of an ANGLICO unit in Marine Corps history. ANGLICO Marines specialize in deploying small teams to attach to joint and multi-national forces to conduct the coordination and deconfliction required for those commanders to access Marine Corps close-air support, artillery, rockets and naval gunfire. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Gunnar Rice)

U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Maj. Jason Wolken (center), outgoing sergeant major of Force Headquarter Group, Marine Forces Reserve, salutes Brig. Gen. Raymond Adams (left) during a relief and appointment ceremony at the Marine Corps Support Facility, New Orleans, April 21, 2024. Wolken relinquished his duties to Sgt. Maj. Russell Boley (right), incoming sergeant major of Force Headquarters Group, Marine Forces Reserve. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. David Intriago)

Marine Corps Reserve Sgt. Bobby Philips, motor vehicle operator with Deployment Processing Command - Reserve Support Unit East, Force Headquarters Group, was awarded the Columbia-Richland Fire Department Medal of Honor here, Jan. 19, 2024. According to the fire department Medal of Honor award citation, Philips’ courageous actions, braving life-threatening conditions in the line of duty, saved several lives during a three-alarm fire. Philips initially enlisted as an active duty Marine in June 1998, first deploying in 2001 for training exercises in the Western Pacific and participated in Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003 and 2004 - 2005.