MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP PENDLETON, Calif., (July 11, 2007) ? Marines with Alpha Company, Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit conducted a raid on a mock terrorist training camp, here. Marines with the BLT conducted three separate motor raids on different objectives from July 9-13 as part of their pre-deployment training. The raid force captured hostile combatants, seized small arms weapon caches, improvised explosive devices and rocket-propelled grenades. The raid training, which is administered by Special Operations Training Group, I Marine Expeditionary Force, offers elements of the BLT an opportunity to train together and build standard operating procedures that will be used when they deploy later this year. - MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP PENDLETON, Calif., (July 11, 2007) ? Marines with Alpha Company, Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit conducted a raid on a mock terrorist training camp, here. Marines with the BLT conducted three separate motor raids on different objectives from July 9-13 as part of their pre-deployment training. The raid force captured hostile combatants, seized small arms weapon caches, improvised explosive devices and rocket-propelled grenades. The raid training, which is administered by Special Operations Training Group, I Marine Expeditionary Force, offers elements of the BLT an opportunity to train together and build standard operating procedures that will be used when they deploy later this year.
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NAVAL AMPHIBIOUS BASE CORONADO, SAN DIEGO?Lance Cpl. Daniel J. Yeam (left), from Chicago, tightens the straps on the mask of Lance Cpl. Javier Aguirre, from Vallejo, Calif., before entering the USS Tarawa to conduct a Vessel Boarding Search and Seizure mission June 19, here. Marines and sailors from Battery G, Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit, from here, took part in a three-week training exercise to provide the 11th MEU with a confined space, site exploitation capability that can respond to a chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear incident. Yeam is a CBRN defense specialist and Aguirre is a field wireman with BLT 1/5, 11th MEU. - NAVAL AMPHIBIOUS BASE CORONADO, SAN DIEGO?Lance Cpl. Daniel J. Yeam (left), from Chicago, tightens the straps on the mask of Lance Cpl. Javier Aguirre, from Vallejo, Calif., before entering the USS Tarawa to conduct a Vessel Boarding Search and Seizure mission June 19, here. Marines and sailors from Battery G, Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit, from here, took part in a three-week training exercise to provide the 11th MEU with a confined space, site exploitation capability that can respond to a chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear incident. Yeam is a CBRN defense specialist and Aguirre is a field wireman with BLT 1/5, 11th MEU.