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Cpl. Richard Swafford, Battalion Landing Team, Headquarters and Support Battalion confidential materials clerk with the 24th MEU stares out over the thousands of memorial headstones at Aisne-Marne American Cemetery and Memorial located at Belleau Wood, France, on June 22. Approximately 48 Marines made the journey to Belleau Wood during a liberty period while deployed. - Cpl. Richard Swafford, Battalion Landing Team, Headquarters and Support Battalion confidential materials clerk with the 24th MEU stares out over the thousands of memorial headstones at Aisne-Marne American Cemetery and Memorial located at Belleau Wood, France, on June 22. Approximately 48 Marines made the journey to Belleau Wood during a liberty period while deployed.

24th MEU completes pilgrimage to Belleau Wood

The Marines held themselves low to the wheat, row on row, a thousand steel-grey eyes waiting in the hollows. From the edge of the dark wood before them, machine gun rounds spun into the sunlight, slipping their metal fingers between the stalks like the icy hands of Death reaching for the Marines across the small, deadly space. They would charge

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Marines of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit make their way down the pier, a few hours after the ship arrived in Marseille, France, June 20. Many of the MEU?s Marines are enjoying their first-ever port call, a once-standard but recently rare feature of MEU deployments. - Marines of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit make their way down the pier, a few hours after the ship arrived in Marseille, France, June 20. Many of the MEU?s Marines are enjoying their first-ever port call, a once-standard but recently rare feature of MEU deployments.

24th MEU sounds libo call across Europe

The 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit arrived in Europe this week, completing the first leg of a deployment that will ultimately take the unit’s 2,200 Marines and sailors to the front lines of the Global War on Terror. The MEU set sail from its home base at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, N.C., on June 8, and began making its way across the Atlantic

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Navy Petty Officer Third Class Brent Booze, a Fleet Marine Force Hospital Corpsman serving aboard the USS Iwo Jima with Headquarters and Support Battalion, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable), has put his dream of playing baseball for the Navy on hold to deploy. The MEU last week began an expected six-month deployment to the European and Central Command theaters of operations. The MEU is composed of its command element; Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment; Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 365 (Reinforced); and Marine Service Support Group 24. - Navy Petty Officer Third Class Brent Booze, a Fleet Marine Force Hospital Corpsman serving aboard the USS Iwo Jima with Headquarters and Support Battalion, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable), has put his dream of playing baseball for the Navy on hold to deploy. The MEU last week began an expected six-month deployment to the European and Central Command theaters of operations. The MEU is composed of its command element; Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment; Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 365 (Reinforced); and Marine Service Support Group 24.

Corpsman chases ‘field of dreams’ with 24 MEU

Dreams start as a childhood infection, growing over time into a lifelong addiction so deep they stain men’s souls and drive others into madness. They begin by slipping like a burglar into your wakeless nights, crouching in the dark corners of your mind before tiptoeing across your consciousness and slipping silently into your heart where they’ll

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Marines with the 1st Marine Regiment/8th Marine Battalion's (1/8) Weapons Company and Alpha Company practice "Fast roping" on the flight deck of the USS Iwo Jima while on deployment with the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU). (US Marine Corps photo by Lance Corporal Andrew Carlson) - Marines with the 1st Marine Regiment/8th Marine Battalion's (1/8) Weapons Company and Alpha Company practice "Fast roping" on the flight deck of the USS Iwo Jima while on deployment with the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU). (US Marine Corps photo by Lance Corporal Andrew Carlson)

24th MEU ‘Leathernecks’ train for war

Marines with Alpha and Weapons Companies, Battalion Landing Team, 1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) tested their fast roping skills June 14 while underway aboard the USS Iwo Jima. As the Ground Combat Element of the 24th MEU, each infantry Marine may be called upon to enter a number of

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Navy Commander Gary W. Carr, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit chaplain and a Lansing, Mich., native, performs evening prayer aboard the USS Iwo Jima June 11. The 24th MEU last week began an expected six-month deployment to the European and Central Command theaters of operation. - Navy Commander Gary W. Carr, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit chaplain and a Lansing, Mich., native, performs evening prayer aboard the USS Iwo Jima June 11. The 24th MEU last week began an expected six-month deployment to the European and Central Command theaters of operation.

A ‘closer walk’ with 24 MEU Chaplain

A man walks deep within enemy country armed only with the good book and his faith. He travels unfamiliar lands in service to others, providing a kind word here, a good work there. A man of God, his path leads him to the aid of his country and offers the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) one of its greatest force

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Marines with the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit practice using a Talon 3B robotics system aboard the USS Iwo Jima.::n::The Marines are Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technicians assigned to MEU Service Support Group 24.::n::The 24th MEU, a versatile Air Ground Task Force that features several rifle companies, tanks, artillery and a reinforced helicopter squadron, is headed for the European and Central Command Theaters of Operations. - Marines with the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit practice using a Talon 3B robotics system aboard the USS Iwo Jima.::n::The Marines are Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technicians assigned to MEU Service Support Group 24.::n::The 24th MEU, a versatile Air Ground Task Force that features several rifle companies, tanks, artillery and a reinforced helicopter squadron, is headed for the European and Central Command Theaters of Operations.

24th MEU EOD uses technology to counter IEDs, save lives

In Iraq, the threat of roadside bombs and improvised explosive devices is a daily concern. Due to constant training and continued vigilance, Marines have been able to locate these bombs before they are detonated. In the past, once they were found, a Marine Explosive Ordinance Disposal technician would have to personally disable the bomb to make

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Marines from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit's (MEU) Command Element depart from Camp Lejeune, NC and board the USS Iwo Jima to kick off the MEU's 2006 - 2007 deployment. (US Marine Corps photo by Lance Corporal Andrew Carlson) - Marines from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit's (MEU) Command Element depart from Camp Lejeune, NC and board the USS Iwo Jima to kick off the MEU's 2006 - 2007 deployment. (US Marine Corps photo by Lance Corporal Andrew Carlson)

24th MEU charges into breach once more

Approximately 2,200 Marines and sailors with the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) set sail this week for the European and Central Command theaters of operation, marking the MEU’s return to the front lines of the Global War on Terrorism. The deployment comes on the heels of a rigorous training cycle that kicked off in

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