Fort Jackson, S.C. --
Marines Raiders
from Company F, 2d Marine Raider Battalion (2 MRB), put their skills to the
test during a Company Collective Exercise (CCE) aboard Fort Jackson, S.C. The
Marine Special Operations Company and individual teams where tested on their
execution of basic skills as well as learned and honed new tactic, techniques and
procedures (TTPs).
“The CCE is a
good opportunity for the Company Headquarters to exercise command and control
and refine their producers to ensure that we work as a cohesive staff,” said
the company 1st Sergeant.
The MSOTs had
the opportunity to train a simulated partner nation force during the CCE. They
also completed multiple ranges and raids honing both their individual skills
and team TTPs.
“Having a
partner nation force allows us to simulate training a real world foreign
internal defense force,” said the company 1st Sgt. “We train basic infantry
patrolling, trauma casualty combat care, helo-borne assaults and ground
assaults. (This experience) makes the teams better equipped to be a military
force supporting a host country.”
Marines from
Marine Corps Air Station New River, Security Forces and I and I Greenvile made
up the supporting elements and partner nation force.
“There is a
big difference between what we do in garrison and what we have been doing out
here,” said Sgt. Conner Fiero, a Marine assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters
Squadron, MCAS New River. “From the air wing side we only get to see one
demission of the assault, out here we have gotten to see how the air craft operationaly employed, troop movements, how
the troops communicate with the aircraft and the actual assault which turns it
into a 3-D picture.”
The CCE is
designed to validate all the training the Raiders have done up this point said
the Company Operations Chief with Company F.
“All the
training they have done, all the time they’ve been away, all the hardships
they’ve faced, all the struggles have paid off, its paid off through leadership
and mentorship from the supporting elements to the team commanders and team
chiefs,” said the Company Ops Chief. “Their (Marine Raider’s) mindsets have
been brought up from conducting unilateral operations to being able to fully
integrate not only enablers but a partner nation force who may have a language
barrier or not have the same level of training.”