Marine Corps Installations West

U.S. Marines with Charlie Company, Infantry Training Battalion, School of Infantry West, conduct a 20-kilometer conditioning hike near the School of Infantry - West on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, July 9, 2020. Conditioning hikes of various distances evaluate the students’ ability to transport themselves and their gear from one location to another as expediently as possible. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Anthony Alvarez)

U.S. Marines with Alpha Company, Infantry Training Battalion, School of Infantry West, conduct an M27 Infantry Automatic Rifle familiarization range at Range 215A on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, June 5, 2020. ITB trains, develops and certifies Marines as riflemen, as well as their primary military occupational specialty within the infantry field, before sending them to join the Fleet Marine Force. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Dylan Chagnon)

U.S. Marines with Charlie Company, Infantry Training Battalion, School of Infantry - West, train with the M67 fragmentation grenade at Range 202 on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, May 26, 2020. The Marines learned the characteristics and the tactical employment of the fragmentation grenade during this training evolution. ITB trains, develops and certifies Marines as riflemen, as well as their primary military occupational specialty within the infantry field, before sending them to join the Fleet Marine Force (U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Melissa I. Ugalde)

U.S. Marines with Delta Company, Infantry Training Battalion, School of Infantry - West, conduct a Mark 19 40 mm automatic grenade launcher live-fire range at Range 204B on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, March 2, 2020. ITB trains, develops and certifies Marines as riflemen, as well as their primary military occupational specialty within the infantry field, before sending them to join the Fleet Marine Force. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Dylan Chagnon)

U.S. Marines with Alpha Company, Infantry Training Battalion, School of Infantry - West, conduct an M240B medium machine gun live-fire range during the Infantry Machine Gunner’s course at Range 218A on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, Feb. 26, 2020. ITB trains, develops and certifies Marines as riflemen, as well as their primary military occupational specialty within the infantry field, before sending them to join the Fleet Marine Force. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Dylan Chagnon)

U.S. Marines with Light Armored Reconnaissance Training Company, Advanced Infantry Training Battalion, School of Infantry - West, operate a LAV-25 Light Armored Vehicle during LAR Marine Course 2-20’s LAV swim operations at the Del Mar boat basin on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, Feb. 11, 2020. The mission of LARTC is to train entry-level light armored reconnaissance crewmen in the tactical employment of the LAV. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Drake Nickels)