U.S. Marine Corps Col. Scott D. Leonard, commanding

U.S. Marine Corps Col. Scott D. Leonard, commanding officer, Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center (MCMWTC), sits near landing zone mean peak taking notes and critiquing Marines with 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division (MARDIV), as they come to the end of the last field exercise of Mountain Exercise 5-15, MCMWTC, Bridgeport, Calif., Sept. 23, 2015. Marines participate in a month-long field exercise focusing on core mission essential tasks such as assault climbing, animal packing and small unit movements, to strengthen expeditionary high altitude warfare tactics in a mountainous environment against a hybrid threat, as they prepare for world-wide deployment. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Kelly L. Street, 2D MARDIV COMCAM/Released)