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CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. - Marines and sailors with 1st Air Naval Gunfire Liaison Company conducted an unknown distance and a pistol combat marksmanship shoot aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, Sept. 4, 2014.
The Marines and sailors participating in this training came from both 1st ANGLICO Supporting Arms Liaison Teams (SALT) and 1st ANGLICO headquarters. The training was designed to improve their skills with both primary and secondary weapons.
Sergeant Domonic Williams, 26, from Beaufort, South Carolina, the administration chief and career planner for 1st ANGLICO, explained that being with the company gives him a totally different experience from that of many Marines in the administrative field.
“I take great pride in being part of 1st ANGLICO,” said Williams. “We have so many training evolutions here, and we’re able to get out of the office and take part in them and really improve on our skills as Marines.”
This type of training isn’t uncommon on a Marine Corps installation. The 1st ANGLICO leadership is constantly working to improve their Marines.
“Training like this is especially important for ANGLICO,” said Williams. ”We have 4-to-5-man teams, and they need to be able to put rounds down range effectively.”
The company conducts exercises like these to build confidence and maintain deployment readiness. The more practice Marines get behind their weapons, the more comfortable they become.
“Today we’re gaining familiarity and engaging targets at all different distances, from far away with our rifles to up close with our M9’s,” said Navy Lt. Nathan Walker, 34, from Oakland, California, the air officer for SALT B, 1st ANGLICO. “We get inserted as small teams with foreign military forces, and we’re there to provide the ability to use Marine Corps fires, such as artillery or air support. If we’re out on patrol with them and we take contact, we need to be able to effectively engage the enemy.”
Improving accuracy makes ANGLICO Marines more effective on the battlefield and allows them to bring coordinated fires to the larger Marine Air Ground Task Force fight.
| Date Taken: | 09.04.2014 |
| Date Posted: | 09.05.2014 17:38 |
| Story ID: | 141311 |
| Location: | CAMP PENDLETON, CALIFORNIA, US |
| Hometown: | BEAUFORT, SOUTH CAROLINA, US |
| Hometown: | OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, US |
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