Marines with Alpha Company, 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion participate in Exercise Desert Scimitar aboard Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, Calif. April 14, 2014. Desert Scimitar enables 1st Marine Division to test and refine its Command and Control capabilities by acting as the headquarters element for a forward deployed Marine Expiditionary force. Simultaneously, it offers participating units the opportunity to hone their conventional war fighting skills. ( Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Akeel Austin/Released) Alpha Company, 1st Light Armored Re

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Marines with Alpha Company, 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion participate in Exercise Desert Scimitar aboard Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, Calif. April 14, 2014. Desert Scimitar enables 1st Marine Division to test and refine its Command and Control capabilities by acting as the headquarters element for a forward deployed Marine Expiditionary force. Simultaneously, it offers participating units the opportunity to hone their conventional war fighting skills. ( Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Akeel Austin/Released) Alpha Company, 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, Desert Scimitar 140514-M-JE159-097

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