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A Marine with Battalion Landing Team 3/1, 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit, provides security during a counterinsurgency exercise here July 18. The Marines and sailors with the unit are preparing for their upcoming Western Pacific deployment. - A Marine with Battalion Landing Team 3/1, 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit, provides security during a counterinsurgency exercise here July 18. The Marines and sailors with the unit are preparing for their upcoming Western Pacific deployment.

Battalion focuses on counterinsurgency

The 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit’s ground combat element recently honed its counterinsurgency capability, training for eight days at multiple facilities here July 18-25 and at times undergoing medical tests. The three rifle companies, weapons company and artillery battery that make the bulk of Battalion Landing Team 3/1 trained separately for

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Marines take cover from paintball fire here July 18 during a counterinsurgency exercise with 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit. The Marines serve with Company L, Battalion Landing Team 3/1. The battalion is training to deploy as the unit's ground combat element this fall. - Marines take cover from paintball fire here July 18 during a counterinsurgency exercise with 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit. The Marines serve with Company L, Battalion Landing Team 3/1. The battalion is training to deploy as the unit's ground combat element this fall.

Researchers study Marines' mind fitness

Riflemen learning to channel combat stress and use it to their advantage continued mindfulness-based mind fitness training here July 18 during an 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit counterinsurgency exercise. Part of eight weeks of research designed to gauge mental fitness and the associated physical effects, two platoons ran combat scenarios at

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