Marine Corps Sgt. Britton Couchman, a mountain warfare instructor with Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center (MCMWTC), Marine Air Ground Task Force Training Command, observes Marines with 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, as they climb a sheer cliff face using knotted line climbing techniques during Mountain Exercise (MTX) 1-23 at MCMWTC, Bridgeport, California, Sept. 24, 2022. MTX is a month-long exercise designed to prepare units to survive and operate effectively in austere, mountainous terrain.

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