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English: Armored vehicles with Senegal’s 5th Contingent in Mali and U.S. Marines with Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force – Crisis Response – Africa conduct convoy operations during a peacekeeping operations training mission at Thies, Senegal, June 6, 2017. Marines and Sailors with SPMAGTF-CR-AF served as instructors and designed ...
Task Force Tripoli (TFT) was a United States Marine Corps air-ground task force formed after the fall of Baghdad during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. [1] This ad-hoc formation was tasked with continuing the attack north to secure the city of Tikrit . [ 2 ]
During these deployments, CLB 8 sailors and Marines conducted convoy operations, route security, road sweeps, and maintenance and explosive ordnance removal support. In 2011, CLB 8 conducted a six day convoy that escorted the Logistics Kandak (Battalion) of the 215th Corps of the Afghan National Army to its headquarters in Helmand Province ...
CLB-6 will train, rapidly task organize, deploy, employ, fight and redeploy in order to provide combat service support to a Regimental Combat Team (RCT) and additional Marine Air Ground Task Force (MAGTF) maneuver elements in the RCT's battle space, beyond their organic capabilities, in order to enable continuity of operations.
In the United States Marine Corps, a Marine air–ground task force (MAGTF, pronounced MAG-TAF) is the principal organization for all missions across the range of military operations. MAGTFs are a balanced air–ground, combined arms task organization of Marine Corps forces under a single commander that is structured to accomplish a specific ...
The LAR battalion performs combined arms reconnaissance and security missions in support of the Ground Combat Element (GCE) of a Marine Air-Ground Task Force (MAGTF). Its mission is to conduct reconnaissance, security and economy of force operations, and, within its capabilities, limited offensive or defensive operations that exploit the unit ...
Combat Logistics Battalion 7 (CLB 7) is a logistics battalion of the United States Marine Corps.The unit is based out of the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, California and falls under the command of the 1st Marine Logistics Group (1st MLG) and I Marine Expeditionary Force (I MEF).
The troops—two 12-man Green Beret teams from the 5th Special Forces Group dubbed Operational Detachment Alpha (ODA) 555 and 595 [12] plus four Air Force Combat Controllers—linked up with the CIA and Northern Alliance. Within a few weeks, the Northern Alliance, assisted by U.S. ground and air forces, captured several key cities from the Taliban.