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USS NEW YORK - Cpl. Jacob Johnson, an anti-tank missleman with Weapons Company, Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, sits behind an M-2 50 cal. heavy machine gun providing security for the ship as she passes through the Straits of Gibraltar, April 20, 2012. The 24th MEU is currently deployed with the Navy's Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group as a theater reserve and crisis response force capable of a variety of missions from full-scale combat operations to humanitarian assistance and disaster relief. (Official Marine Corps Photo by Cpl. Michael Petersheim)

USS NEW YORK - Cpl. Jacob Johnson, an anti-tank missleman with Weapons Company, Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, sits behind an M-2 50 cal. heavy machine gun providing security for the ship as she passes through the Straits of Gibraltar, April 20, 2012. The 24th MEU is currently deployed with the Navy's Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group as a theater reserve and crisis response force capable of a variety of missions from full-scale combat operations to humanitarian assistance and disaster relief. (Official Marine Corps Photo by Cpl. Michael Petersheim)

Photo by Cpl. Michael J. Petersheim

USS NEW YORK - Marines with Weapons Company, Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, sit behind an M-2 50 cal. heavy machine gun providing security for the ship as she passes through the Straits of Gibraltar, April 20, 2012. The 24th MEU is currently deployed with the Navy's Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group as a theater reserve and crisis response force capable of a variety of missions from full-scale combat operations to humanitarian assistance and disaster relief. (Official Marine Corps Photo by Cpl. Michael Petersheim)

USS NEW YORK - Marines with Weapons Company, Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, sit behind an M-2 50 cal. heavy machine gun providing security for the ship as she passes through the Straits of Gibraltar, April 20, 2012. The 24th MEU is currently deployed with the Navy's Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group as a theater reserve and crisis response force capable of a variety of missions from full-scale combat operations to humanitarian assistance and disaster relief. (Official Marine Corps Photo by Cpl. Michael Petersheim)

Photo by Cpl. Michael J. Petersheim

USS NEW YORK - Cpl. Charles Huff III, a machine gunner with Weapons Company, Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, stands behind an M-2 50 cal. heavy machine gun providing security for the ship as she passes through the Straits of Gibraltar, April 20, 2012. The 24th MEU is currently deployed with the Navy's Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group as a theater reserve and crisis response force capable of a variety of missions from full-scale combat operations to humanitarian assistance and disaster relief. (Official Marine Corps Photo by Cpl. Michael Petersheim)

USS NEW YORK - Cpl. Charles Huff III, a machine gunner with Weapons Company, Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, stands behind an M-2 50 cal. heavy machine gun providing security for the ship as she passes through the Straits of Gibraltar, April 20, 2012. The 24th MEU is currently deployed with the Navy's Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group as a theater reserve and crisis response force capable of a variety of missions from full-scale combat operations to humanitarian assistance and disaster relief. (Official Marine Corps Photo by Cpl. Michael Petersheim)

Photo by Cpl. Michael J. Petersheim

USS NEW YORK - Lance Cpl. Francis Quinn, an anti-tank missleman with Weapons Company, Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, sits behind an M-2 50 cal. heavy machine gun providing security for the ship as she passes through the Straits of Gibraltar, April 20, 2012. The 24th MEU is currently deployed with the Navy's Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group as a theater reserve and crisis response force capable of a variety of missions from full-scale combat operations to humanitarian assistance and disaster relief. (Official Marine Corps Photo by Cpl. Michael Petersheim)

USS NEW YORK - Lance Cpl. Francis Quinn, an anti-tank missleman with Weapons Company, Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, sits behind an M-2 50 cal. heavy machine gun providing security for the ship as she passes through the Straits of Gibraltar, April 20, 2012. The 24th MEU is currently deployed with the Navy's Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group as a theater reserve and crisis response force capable of a variety of missions from full-scale combat operations to humanitarian assistance and disaster relief. (Official Marine Corps Photo by Cpl. Michael Petersheim)

Photo by Cpl. Michael J. Petersheim

Marines with 2nd Platoon, Charlie Company, Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, provide ship security during Defense of Amphibious Task Force operations, April 20, 2012, as the ship sails through the Strait of Gibraltar. The 24th MEU, partnered with the Navy's Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group, is currently deployed as a theater reserve and crisis response force capable of a variety of missions from full-scale combat operations to humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.

Marines with 2nd Platoon, Charlie Company, Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, provide ship security during Defense of Amphibious Task Force operations, April 20, 2012, as the ship sails through the Strait of Gibraltar. The 24th MEU, partnered with the Navy's Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group, is currently deployed as a theater reserve and crisis response force capable of a variety of missions from full-scale combat operations to humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.

Photo by Sgt. Richard Blumenstein

Lance Cpl. Kyle Scales, a fire team leader with 2nd Platoon, Charlie Company, Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, provides ship security during Defense of Amphibious Task Force operations, April 20, 2012, as the ship sails through the Strait of Gibraltar. The 24th MEU, partnered with the Navy's Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group, is currently deployed as a theater reserve and crisis response force capable of a variety of missions from full-scale combat operations to humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.

Lance Cpl. Kyle Scales, a fire team leader with 2nd Platoon, Charlie Company, Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, provides ship security during Defense of Amphibious Task Force operations, April 20, 2012, as the ship sails through the Strait of Gibraltar. The 24th MEU, partnered with the Navy's Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group, is currently deployed as a theater reserve and crisis response force capable of a variety of missions from full-scale combat operations to humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.

Photo by Sgt. Richard Blumenstein

USS NEW YORK - Cpl. Sean S. Jeffries, a scout sniper with Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, stands ready behind an M40A5 sniper rifle to provide security for the ship as she passes through the Straits of Gibraltar, April 20, 2012. The 24th MEU is currently deployed with the Navy's Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group as a theater reserve and crisis response force capable of a variety of missions from full-scale combat operations to humanitarian assistance and disaster relief. (Official Marine Corps Photo by Staff Sgt. Robert L. Fisher III)

USS NEW YORK - Cpl. Sean S. Jeffries, a scout sniper with Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, stands ready behind an M40A5 sniper rifle to provide security for the ship as she passes through the Straits of Gibraltar, April 20, 2012. The 24th MEU is currently deployed with the Navy's Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group as a theater reserve and crisis response force capable of a variety of missions from full-scale combat operations to humanitarian assistance and disaster relief. (Official Marine Corps Photo by Staff Sgt. Robert L. Fisher III)

Photo by SSgt. Robert L. Fisher III

USS NEW YORK - Cpl. Sean S. Jeffries, a scout sniper with Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, stands ready behind an M40A5 sniper rifle to provide security for the ship as she passes through the Straits of Gibraltar, April 20, 2012. The 24th MEU is currently deployed with the Navy's Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group as a theater reserve and crisis response force capable of a variety of missions from full-scale combat operations to humanitarian assistance and disaster relief. (Official Marine Corps Photo by Staff Sgt. Robert L. Fisher III)

USS NEW YORK - Cpl. Sean S. Jeffries, a scout sniper with Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, stands ready behind an M40A5 sniper rifle to provide security for the ship as she passes through the Straits of Gibraltar, April 20, 2012. The 24th MEU is currently deployed with the Navy's Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group as a theater reserve and crisis response force capable of a variety of missions from full-scale combat operations to humanitarian assistance and disaster relief. (Official Marine Corps Photo by Staff Sgt. Robert L. Fisher III)

Photo by Staff Sgt. Robert L. Fisher III

Lance Cpl. Kyle Scales, a fire team leader, grapples Lance Cpl. James Rounds, a rifleman, while other Marines from Charlie Company, Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, pin Rounds' arms and legs here, April 19, 2012, during a squad vs. squad Marine Corps Martial Arts Program grappling exercise. The Marines spent the day engaging in a variety of training events before enjoying a much needed day off in Spain. The 24th MEU, partnered with the Navy's Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group, is currently deployed as a theater reserve and crisis response force capable of a variety of missions from full-scale combat operations to humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.

Lance Cpl. Kyle Scales, a fire team leader, grapples Lance Cpl. James Rounds, a rifleman, while other Marines from Charlie Company, Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, pin Rounds' arms and legs here, April 19, 2012, during a squad vs. squad Marine Corps Martial Arts Program grappling exercise. The Marines spent the day engaging in a variety of training events before enjoying a much needed day off in Spain. The 24th MEU, partnered with the Navy's Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group, is currently deployed as a theater reserve and crisis response force capable of a variety of missions from full-scale combat operations to humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.

Photo by Sgt. Richard Blumenstein

Cpl. Julian Valdez, a squad leader for 2nd Platoon, Charlie Company, Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, grapples with other members of his squad here, April 19, 2012, during a supervised Marine Corps Martial Arts Program squad vs. squad grappling match. The Marines spent the day engaging in a variety of training events before enjoying a much needed day off in Spain. The 24th MEU, partnered with the Navy's Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group, is currently deployed as a theater reserve and crisis response force capable of a variety of missions from full-scale combat operations to humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.

Cpl. Julian Valdez, a squad leader for 2nd Platoon, Charlie Company, Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, grapples with other members of his squad here, April 19, 2012, during a supervised Marine Corps Martial Arts Program squad vs. squad grappling match. The Marines spent the day engaging in a variety of training events before enjoying a much needed day off in Spain. The 24th MEU, partnered with the Navy's Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group, is currently deployed as a theater reserve and crisis response force capable of a variety of missions from full-scale combat operations to humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.

Photo by Sgt. Richard Blumenstein

Marines with Charlie Company, Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, run an obstacle course here, April 19, 2012, during a day of training before enjoying time off in Spain. The 24th MEU, partnered with the Navy's Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group, is currently deployed as a theater reserve and crisis response force capable of a variety of missions from full-scale combat operations to humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.

Marines with Charlie Company, Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, run an obstacle course here, April 19, 2012, during a day of training before enjoying time off in Spain. The 24th MEU, partnered with the Navy's Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group, is currently deployed as a theater reserve and crisis response force capable of a variety of missions from full-scale combat operations to humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.

Photo by Sgt. Richard Blumenstein

Pfc. Ekrem Uysaler, a machine gunner with Charlie Company, Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, leaps over a wall on an obstacle course here, April 19, 2012, during a day of training before enjoying time off in Spain. The 24th MEU, partnered with the Navy's Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group, is currently deployed as a theater reserve and crisis response force capable of a variety of missions from full-scale combat operations to humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.

Pfc. Ekrem Uysaler, a machine gunner with Charlie Company, Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, leaps over a wall on an obstacle course here, April 19, 2012, during a day of training before enjoying time off in Spain. The 24th MEU, partnered with the Navy's Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group, is currently deployed as a theater reserve and crisis response force capable of a variety of missions from full-scale combat operations to humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.

Photo by Sgt. Richard Blumenstein

Cpl. Jesse Buhler, an assaultman with Charlie Company, Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, makes his way across a horizontal bar on an obstacle course here, April 19, 2012, during a day of training before enjoying time off in Spain. The 24th MEU, partnered with the Navy's Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group, is currently deployed as a theater reserve and crisis response force capable of a variety of missions from full-scale combat operations to humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.

Cpl. Jesse Buhler, an assaultman with Charlie Company, Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, makes his way across a horizontal bar on an obstacle course here, April 19, 2012, during a day of training before enjoying time off in Spain. The 24th MEU, partnered with the Navy's Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group, is currently deployed as a theater reserve and crisis response force capable of a variety of missions from full-scale combat operations to humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.

Photo by Sgt. Richard Blumenstein

A Marine with Charlie Company, Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, fast ropes from a rappel tower here, April 19, 2012, during a day of routine training before enjoying time off in Spain. The 24th MEU, partnered with the Navy's Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group, is currently deployed as a theater reserve and crisis response force capable of a variety of missions from full-scale combat operations to humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.

A Marine with Charlie Company, Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, fast ropes from a rappel tower here, April 19, 2012, during a day of routine training before enjoying time off in Spain. The 24th MEU, partnered with the Navy's Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group, is currently deployed as a theater reserve and crisis response force capable of a variety of missions from full-scale combat operations to humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.

Photo by Sgt. Richard Blumenstein

Marines with Charlie Company, Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, overcome the last obstacle on the obstacle course here, April 19, 2012, during a day of training before enjoying time off in Spain. The 24th MEU, partnered with the Navy's Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group, is currently deployed as a theater reserve and crisis response force capable of a variety of missions from full-scale combat operations to humanitarian assistance and disaster relief. (Official Marine Corps Photo by Sgt. Richard Blumenstein)

Marines with Charlie Company, Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, overcome the last obstacle on the obstacle course here, April 19, 2012, during a day of training before enjoying time off in Spain. The 24th MEU, partnered with the Navy's Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group, is currently deployed as a theater reserve and crisis response force capable of a variety of missions from full-scale combat operations to humanitarian assistance and disaster relief. (Official Marine Corps Photo by Sgt. Richard Blumenstein)

Photo by Sgt. Richard Blumenstein

Chief Warrant Officer 2 James O'Brien, the evacuation control center officer-in-charge with Combat Logistics Battalion 24, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit explains how they operate an ECC to Marines with the Spanish Marine Corps April 17, here, during bi-lateral tactics training between the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit and the Spanish Marine Corps. The 24th MEU, partnered with the Navy's Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group, is deployed to the European and Central Command theaters of operation to serve as a theater reserve and crisis response force capable of a variety of missions from full-scale combat operations to humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.

Chief Warrant Officer 2 James O'Brien, the evacuation control center officer-in-charge with Combat Logistics Battalion 24, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit explains how they operate an ECC to Marines with the Spanish Marine Corps April 17, here, during bi-lateral tactics training between the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit and the Spanish Marine Corps. The 24th MEU, partnered with the Navy's Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group, is deployed to the European and Central Command theaters of operation to serve as a theater reserve and crisis response force capable of a variety of missions from full-scale combat operations to humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.

Photo by Sgt. Richard Blumenstein

Chief Warrant Officer 2 James O'Brien, the evacuation control center officer-in-charge with Combat Logistics Battalion 24, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit explains how they operate an ECC to Marines with the Spanish Marine Corps April 17, here, during bi-lateral tactics training between the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit and the Spanish Marine Corps. The 24th MEU, partnered with the Navy's Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group, is deployed to the European and Central Command theaters of operation to serve as a theater reserve and crisis response force capable of a variety of missions from full-scale combat operations to humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.

Chief Warrant Officer 2 James O'Brien, the evacuation control center officer-in-charge with Combat Logistics Battalion 24, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit explains how they operate an ECC to Marines with the Spanish Marine Corps April 17, here, during bi-lateral tactics training between the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit and the Spanish Marine Corps. The 24th MEU, partnered with the Navy's Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group, is deployed to the European and Central Command theaters of operation to serve as a theater reserve and crisis response force capable of a variety of missions from full-scale combat operations to humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.

Photo by Sgt. Richard Blumenstein

Lt. Col. Daniel Bradley, the commanding officer of Combat Logistics Battalion 24, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit talks with Lt. Col. Angeo Unbria, a logistics commander with the Spanish Marine Corps April 17, here, during bi-lateral tactics training between the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit and the Spanish Marine Corps. The 24th MEU, partnered with the Navy's Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group, is deployed to the European and Central Command theaters of operation to serve as a theater reserve and crisis response force capable of a variety of missions from full-scale combat operations to humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.

Lt. Col. Daniel Bradley, the commanding officer of Combat Logistics Battalion 24, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit talks with Lt. Col. Angeo Unbria, a logistics commander with the Spanish Marine Corps April 17, here, during bi-lateral tactics training between the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit and the Spanish Marine Corps. The 24th MEU, partnered with the Navy's Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group, is deployed to the European and Central Command theaters of operation to serve as a theater reserve and crisis response force capable of a variety of missions from full-scale combat operations to humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.

Photo by Sgt. Richard Blumenstein

An infantryman with the Spanish Marine Corps looks though a night vision optic during bi-lateral tactics training between the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit and the Spanish Marine Corps. The 24th MEU, partnered with the Navy's Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group, is deployed to the European and Central Command theaters of operation to serve as a theater reserve and crisis response force capable of a variety of missions from full-scale combat operations to humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.

An infantryman with the Spanish Marine Corps looks though a night vision optic during bi-lateral tactics training between the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit and the Spanish Marine Corps. The 24th MEU, partnered with the Navy's Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group, is deployed to the European and Central Command theaters of operation to serve as a theater reserve and crisis response force capable of a variety of missions from full-scale combat operations to humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.

Photo by Sgt. Richard Blumenstein

Marines with Charlie Company, Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit demonstrate searching an individual at an entry control point for Spanish Marines April 16, here, during bi-lateral tactics training between the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit and the Spanish Marine Corps. The 24th MEU, partnered with the Navy's Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group, is deployed to the European and Central Command theaters of operation to serve as a theater reserve and crisis response force capable of a variety of missions from full-scale combat operations to humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.

Marines with Charlie Company, Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit demonstrate searching an individual at an entry control point for Spanish Marines April 16, here, during bi-lateral tactics training between the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit and the Spanish Marine Corps. The 24th MEU, partnered with the Navy's Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group, is deployed to the European and Central Command theaters of operation to serve as a theater reserve and crisis response force capable of a variety of missions from full-scale combat operations to humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.

Photo by Sgt. Richard Blumenstein