Marines training a foreign military are learning skills about fighting in a place they haven’t had much exposure to in the last decade — the jungle. A small team with the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit was sent on a unique mission. Eleven Marines left the Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group to meet up with a team from Special Purpose Marine Air Ground Task Force in Uganda, according to a Marine Corps news release. The Ugandan troops they are training are preparing for a deployment to Somalia, a failed state that has lacked a central government for more than two decades. Marines with…
Browsing: 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit
As fireworks and barbeques kicked off across the country for Independence Day, a detachment of more than 40 Marines from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit received a warm homecoming at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, N.C. The detachment from Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron 252, home for an operational re-set, will spend the next two weeks enjoying time with family and conducting refresher training. “I’m very proud of them and what they did,” the squadron’s commanding officer, Lt. Col. Charles Moses, told Marine Corps Times. “The capabilities that they brought were exactly what they’re designed to do.” While it’s…
