15th Marine Expeditionary Unit

15th Marine Expeditionary Unit

America's Vanguard Force

Camp Pendleton, CA

15th Marine Expeditionary Unit Photo Gallery

The course is an early step in training Marines from various specialties such as Law Enforcement, Air Naval Gunfire Liaison and Explosive Ordnance Disposal to work with the All-Domain Reconnaissance Detachment. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Sarah Stegall)

HSTs enable combined logistics operations and are able to conduct contingency operations, such as tactical recovery of aircraft and personnel missions. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Brendan Mullin

U.S. Marines with Battalion Landing Team, 1st Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, fire their service rifles during a Raid Leaders Course combat marksmanship range at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, April 22, 2020.

U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Logan Voight, a squad leader with Battalion Landing Team, 1st Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, poses for a portrait during a Raid Leaders Course combat marksmanship range at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, April 22, 2020.

U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Steven Weightman, a section leader with Battalion Landing Team, 1st Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, participates in a Raid Leaders Course combat marksmanship range at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, April 22, 2020.

Exercise Iron Fist provides realistic, relevant training necessary for effective combined military operations.

Iron Fist is an annual, bilateral training exercise between U.S. and Japanese forces that builds their combined ability to conduct amphibious and land-based contingency operations.

Iron Fist is an annual, bilateral training exercise between U.S. and Japanese forces train together and share techniques, tactics and procedures to improve their combined operation capabilities.

Iron Fist provides realistic, relevant training necessary for effective combined military operations.

Iron Fist enhances opportunities for the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force and the U.S. Marine Corps to share expertise in the use of amphibious vehicles, combined arms and amphibious doctrine.

Iron Fist enhances opportunities for the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force and the U.S. Marine Corps to share expertise in the use of amphibious vehicles, combined arms and amphibious doctrine.

Iron Fist enhances opportunities for the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force and the U.S. Marine Corps to share expertise in the use of amphibious vehicles, combined arms and amphibious doctrine.

Iron Fist enhances opportunities for the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force and the U.S. Marine Corps to share expertise in the use of amphibious vehicles, combined arms and amphibious doctrine.

Iron Fist enhances opportunities for the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force and the U.S. Marine Corps to share expertise in the use of amphibious vehicles, combined arms and amphibious doctrine.

Iron Fist enhances opportunities for the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force and the U.S. Marine Corps to share expertise in the use of amphibious vehicles, combined arms and amphibious doctrine.

U.S. Marine Corps Col. Jay M. Holtermann, right, the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit outgoing commanding officer, passes the colors to Col. Christopher J. Bronzi, incoming commanding officer, during a change of command ceremony at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, Nov. 13, 2019.

U.S. Marines assigned to Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 269 utilize an UH-1Y Venom aircraft to transport infantry Marines with 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division

U.S. Marines with Weapons and Tactics Instructors Course 1-19, use MV-22B Ospreys

U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Jacob Wright, motor vehicle operator assigned to Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Crisis Response-Central Command 19.1, shows blisters sustained from utilizing an entrenching tool

U.S. Marines with 5th Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, practice launching rockets from a high mobility artillery rockets system in a specified training area as part of Assault Support Tactics 2 during the Weapons and Tactics Instructor Course 1-19