The 1st Marine Division’s annual three-week Steel Knight training exercise being held across 60,000 square miles in Southern California and Arizona. The training area replicates actual distan…
First, two Marine helicopter gunships appeared high over the green canyons of Camp Pendleton’s Camp San Mateo.
A bird takes flight behind a MV-22 Osprey aircraft while Marines and sailors take part in the annual Steel Knight training exercise on Monday, December 5, 2022 at Camp Pendleton. Two MV-22 Osprey get ready to land during the annual Steel Knight training exercise at Camp Pendleton on Monday, December 5, 2022.
“We are training them for a specific purpose, to be ready to go forward,” Maj. Gen. Benjamin Watson, commanding general of the 1st Marine Division, said as he watched over the air assault, “to contribute to deterrence on behalf of our nation, but if deterrence fails, then fundamentally, we are the folks that need to be prepared to fight and win against a peer-level adversary.”
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