Marines pose by the shadow box for Lance Cpl Irvin M. Ceniceros on display at the Advanced Machine Gun Course 4-21 graduation ceremony at the School of Infantry - West, Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, July 28, 2021. During the graduation, Lance Cpl. Steven Criniti was awarded the first ever Lance Cpl. Irvin M. Ceniceros Award. Ceniceros was awarded the Silver Star Medal posthumously for his actions against the enemy as a machine gun team leader with India Company, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 2, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force,
Marines pose by the shadow box for Lance Cpl Irvin M. Ceniceros on display at the Advanced Machine Gun Course 4-21 graduation ceremony at the School of Infantry - West, Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, July 28, 2021. During the graduation, Lance Cpl. Steven Criniti was awarded the first ever Lance Cpl. Irvin M. Ceniceros Award. Ceniceros was awarded the Silver Star Medal posthumously for his actions against the enemy as a machine gun team leader with India Company, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 2, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, while deployed to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom in 2010. The instructors with AMGC and the Marines who served with Ceniceros created this award and intended it to be given to the Marine they would feel most comfortable serving with in a combat situation.
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