Marine Corps Installations West

The Marine Corps Installations - West, Headquarters & Support Battalion Spartans football team from Camp Pendleton, Calif., traveled to Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center - 29 Palms for the MCCS "Best of the West" Football Championship against 1st Tanks Battalion Dec. 2, 2017. The Spartans emerged victorious with a final score of 66-7 and have claimed the title of, "Best of the West". (U.S. Marine Corps video by LCpl. Dylan Chagnon)

Marines and Sailors with MAG-39, Weapons and Field Training Battalion, and 1st Medical Battalion conducted Combat Operational Medical Emergency Transport Training. COMETT is designed to give Marines a hindsight on proper casualty and medical evacuation procedures. (U.S. Marine Corps Video by LCpl. Dylan Chagnon)

On October 23, 1983, at around 06:22 Beirut time, a stake-bed truck carrying explosives drove directly into the 1st Battalion, 8th Marines barracks in Beirut, Lebanon and exploded. The force of the explosion collapsed the four-story building into rubble, crushing to death 241 American servicemen, majority of them being U.S. Marines. The Marines were part of a Multi-National Peacekeeping Force meant to oversee the peaceful withdrawal of the Palestine Liberation Organization from Lebanon. (U.S. Marine Corps Video by LCpl. Dylan Chagnon)