Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Brandon Howell, a corpsman with Alpha Company, 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division, observes an LAV-25 Light Armored Vehicle suppressing simulated enemy positions from a support by fire position as part of a combined arms live-fire exercise during Exercise Predator’s Run 24 at Mount Bundey Training Area, NT, Australia, Aug. 5, 2024. During Rapid Deployment Exercise, 1st LAR rapidly deployed from Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, , to Australia by strategic lift and rail to participate in the 1st Brigade, Australian A


Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Brandon Howell, a corpsman with Alpha Company, 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division, observes an LAV-25 Light Armored Vehicle suppressing simulated enemy positions from a support by fire position as part of a combined arms live-fire exercise during Exercise Predator’s Run 24 at Mount Bundey Training Area, NT, Australia, Aug. 5, 2024. During Rapid Deployment Exercise, 1st LAR rapidly deployed from Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, , to Australia by strategic lift and rail to participate in the 1st Brigade, Australian Army led, Exercise Predator’s Run 24. Exercise Predator’s run 24 provides Marine Rotational Force – Darwin reinforced by 1st LAR, the opportunity to conduct training missions as a Marine Air Ground Task Force, while integrating command and control, aviation, logistics, off-continent and Allied capabilities to increase security and stability in the Indo-Pacific Region. Howell is a native of Ohio. ( Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Earik Barton)


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