MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. – Maj. Misty Posey the Plans Officer with the Manpower Integration Office, Headquarters Marine Corps, educates an audience about the integration of female Marines into previously closed combat arms occupations and units at the Unit Event Center June 8, 2016. The goal of integration education training is to ensure commanders and staffs are sufficiently educated and prepared to receive Marines of either gender by October 31, 2016 (active) and January 31, 2017 (reserve). “I hope we get to the point where people look at female Marines as Marines first and as women second,” Posey said. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Shellie Hall/ Released) - MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. – Maj. Misty Posey the Plans Officer with the Manpower Integration Office, Headquarters Marine Corps, educates an audience about the integration of female Marines into previously closed combat arms occupations and units at the Unit Event Center June 8, 2016. The goal of integration education training is to ensure commanders and staffs are sufficiently educated and prepared to receive Marines of either gender by October 31, 2016 (active) and January 31, 2017 (reserve). “I hope we get to the point where people look at female Marines as Marines first and as women second,” Posey said. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Shellie Hall/ Released)

U.S. Marines with Weapons Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force--Crisis Response--Central Command, rush with their weapons system as they conduct live-fire training on the new M252A2 81mm mortar system at Al Asad Air Base, Iraq, Oct. 24, 2015. The training allowed the Marines, who are charged with providing security of Al Asad, an opportunity to hone their tactics, techniques and procedures in employment of the system, further reinforcing their ability to provide protection to their coalition and Iraqi Security Force partners as part of the Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve’s building partner capacity mission. - U.S. Marines with Weapons Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force--Crisis Response--Central Command, rush with their weapons system as they conduct live-fire training on the new M252A2 81mm mortar system at Al Asad Air Base, Iraq, Oct. 24, 2015. The training allowed the Marines, who are charged with providing security of Al Asad, an opportunity to hone their tactics, techniques and procedures in employment of the system, further reinforcing their ability to provide protection to their coalition and Iraqi Security Force partners as part of the Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve’s building partner capacity mission.

Marines with 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division, maneuver their light armored vehicles off Landing Craft Air Cushions (LCACs) from the Navy’s Assault Craft Unit 5, during an amphibious raid demonstration in conjunction with a visit from the secretary of defense, aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., Aug. 27, 2015. The LCACs transported the LAVs and Marines from the USS New Orleans (LDP 18) while Marines from Company A, 1st Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Mar. Div. used amphibious assault vehicles with 3rd Assault Amphibian Battalion, 1st Mar. Div. to assault their objective. - Marines with 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division, maneuver their light armored vehicles off Landing Craft Air Cushions (LCACs) from the Navy’s Assault Craft Unit 5, during an amphibious raid demonstration in conjunction with a visit from the secretary of defense, aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., Aug. 27, 2015. The LCACs transported the LAVs and Marines from the USS New Orleans (LDP 18) while Marines from Company A, 1st Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Mar. Div. used amphibious assault vehicles with 3rd Assault Amphibian Battalion, 1st Mar. Div. to assault their objective.

Marines with 1st Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, and 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, practice handling a simulated enraged enemy during the culminating event of 1st Marine Division Schools’ Urban Leaders Course at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., Aug. 12, 2015. The course is a 15-day period of instruction that includes classwork, combat marksmanship and physical training in a simulated urban combat environment. - Marines with 1st Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, and 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, practice handling a simulated enraged enemy during the culminating event of 1st Marine Division Schools’ Urban Leaders Course at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., Aug. 12, 2015. The course is a 15-day period of instruction that includes classwork, combat marksmanship and physical training in a simulated urban combat environment.