Marines with Company I, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment,
Summary
Marines with Company I, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, hike in a column formation through the winter landscape during overnight snow survival shelter training Feb. 27 at Sekiyama Training Area, Niigata prefecture, Japan, during Exercise Forest Light 14-2. Forest Light is a bilateral exercise between Marines and Japan Ground Self-Defense Force members with the 2nd Infantry Regiment, 12th Brigade, Eastern Army. The exercise improves Marines’ cold-weather survival skills. 3rd Bn., 1st Marines, is currently assigned to 4th Marines, 3rd Marine Division, III Marine Expeditionary Force, under the unit deployment program.
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marine
service members
japan
3rd battalion
iii marine expeditionary force
3rd marine division
bilateral training
3rd bn
4th marine regiment
4th marines
infantrymen
jgsdf
corpsmen
1st marine regiment
1st marines
3rd mardiv
japan ground self defense force
unit deployment program
mcipac
marine corps installations pacific
environmental news
joey s holeman jr
niigata prefecture
exercise forest light 14 2
snow patrol
snow base practical application
cold weather survival skills
sekiyama training area
snow survival shelters
tsukasa hirai
bryan s miller
david t fenbert
lance cpl joey holeman
niigata
thundering third partners with jgsdf for snow survival training
dvids
high resolution
infantry
winter landscape
Date
27/02/2014
Source
Defense Visual Information Distribution Service
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