The Marine Corps Air-Ground Combat Center will hold a battalion-level exercise on the Twentynine Palms Marine base starting Sunday, August 30, through September 8. Marines and sailors of Battalion Landing Team 2/1, 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit, 1st Marine Expeditionary Force, based out of Camp Pendleton, will take part in the training exercise. The battalion is the ground combat element of the 13th MEU and is preparing for deployment in early 2016. BLT-EX provides the battalion an opportunity to conduct live-fire combined arms training in its core mission essential tasks. The battalion exercise will run concurrently with the 13 MEU’s Realistic Urban Training Exercise, allowing the MEU command element to practice command and control of all elements of the Marine Air Ground Task Force. The MAGTF is composed of a command element, ground combat element, air combat element and logistics combat element.
