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U.S. Marines with Marine Wing Communications Squadron 38, Marine Air Control Group 38, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, conduct Lightning Strike 25 at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar and Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, Oct. 1-30, 2024. Lightning Strike 25 exemplifies MWCS-38’s ability to establish and maintain up to 15 communication nodes supporting Force Design initiatives by enabling distributed command and control in contested environments. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Luc Boatman)

Marines put comms skills to the test at Lightning Strike exercise

DefenseScoop takes an exclusive look inside the Marine Corps exercise Lightning Strike.
1 day ago By Mark Pomerleau
U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Amado Saltosandrade, left, radio operator, and Lance Cpl. Miguel Alfaro, Right, electronics maintenance repairer, with the 3d Littoral Combat Team, 3d Marine Littoral Regiment set up the Marine Corps Wideband Satellite during the establishment of the 3d LCT command and control node at Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Oct. 25, 2022. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Cody Purcell)

Proliferated LEO, hybrid cloud capabilities enable U.S. forces to operate more disconnected

With connectivity expected to be limited in future conflicts, U.S. troops must learn to operate without persistent communications and data.
Oct 22, 2024 By Mark Pomerleau
U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Brayden Westcott, a Midland, Texas native and a low altitude air defense gunner assigned to Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron One, sets up a Light Marine Air Defense Integrated System during a ground-based air defense exercise as part of Weapons and Tactics Instructor course 1-25 at Tacts Airfield near Wellton, Arizona, Oct. 10, 2024. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Maurion Moore)

Marines putting L-MADIS counter-drone system through tactics course for the first time

The Light Marine Air-Defense Integrated System will be going through a Marine Corps Weapons and Tactics Instructor Course, allowing the Corps to develop standardized procedures.
Oct 11, 2024 By Mark Pomerleau
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U.S. Marines with 3rd Battalion, 2d Marine Regiment, 2d Marine Division stand by after conducting a simulated force-on-force exercise as part of a Marine Corps Combat Readiness Evaluation (MCCRE) on Marine Corps Auxiliary Landing Field Bogue, North Carolina, Dec. 5, 2023. The MCCRE involves a range of scenarios and challenges that test the unit’s ability to plan, coordinate, and execute complex missions, including offensive and defensive operations, logistics, and communications. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Eric Dmochowski)

Marines planning to use large language models to help mine information repositories

The effort is part of a broader push by the service to implement its new AI strategy.
Sep 25, 2024 By Jon Harper
An Autonomous Low-Profile Vessel stands by at the Del Mar Boat Basin as part of Project Convergence Capstone Four, Feb. 23, 2024 at Camp Pendleton, CA. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Kevin Ray J. Salvador)

Marine expeditionary force to get autonomous ‘narco boat’ for experimentation

The III MEF will soon receive a new semi-submersible unmanned platform known as the autonomous low-profile vessel, according to the commander of the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory.
Sep 4, 2024 By Jon Harper
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