U.S. Navy Sailors with Navy Cargo Handling Battalion 1 and Navy Cargo Handling Battalion 5, conduct pier side offload with the beach module piece of the Improved Navy Lighterage System aboard the USNS 1st Lt. Jack Lummus (T-AK 3011) in support of 3rd Marine Logistics Group during exercise Atlantic Dragon on Marine Corps Support Facility Blount Island, Florida, United States, March 18, 2022. The INLS is used during a maritime prepositioned force in stream or pier side offload to provide a mode of transport for cargo between strategic sealift ships or shore. Atlantic Dragon is a force generation exercise pushing Combat Logistics Regiment 37 as an arrival assembly operations group to provide tactical logistics support to III Marine Expeditionary Force. The exercise consists of an experimental maritime prepositioned force offload tactics of military equipment that will support the field exercise training to increase combat readiness and efficiency. 3rd MLG, based out of Okinawa, Japan, is a forward-deployed combat unit that serves as III Marine Expeditionary Force's comprehensive logistics and combat service support backbone for operations throughout the Indo-Pacific area of responsibility. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Alpha Hernandez)
Date Taken: | 03.18.2022 |
Date Posted: | 03.31.2022 22:57 |
Photo ID: | 7118723 |
VIRIN: | 220325-M-PM375-4489 |
Resolution: | 5550x3122 |
Size: | 2.72 MB |
Location: | MARINE CORPS SUPPORT FACILITY BLOUNT ISLAND, FLORIDA, US |
Web Views: | 24 |
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