MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. – A Marine

MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. – A Marine with the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit’s Battalion Landing Team conducts a tactical recovery of aircraft and personnel training mission aboard Camp Pendleton, March 1, 2017. The BLT trains to successfully conduct a rescue mission for downed pilots and their crew. The training is a small part of the evolutions that the BLT will conduct in order to get ready to deploy with the 15th MEU later this year. The wide variety of overseas crisis and conflicts justifies the nature of and requirements for expeditionary operations and the Marine Corps’ role in and approach to their conduct. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Frank Cordoba)