Mountain Warfare Training Center
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Luftbild (2012)
Ausbildung im Abseilen (2015)
Das Mountain Warfare Training Center ist eine Einrichtung des US Marine Corps zur militärischen Gebirgsausbildung.
Es befindet sich im Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest in Kalifornien auf einer Höhe von 2062 Metern, nächstgelegener Ort ist Bridgeport.
Geschichte
Das Zentrum wurde 1951 gegründet um Soldaten für den Koreakrieg auszubilden.[1] Im Jahr 1963 erhielt es seinen jetzigen Namen.
Einsatz eines V-22 Osprey (2015)
Marineinfanterist mit Maultieren (2012)
Raupenfahrzeug Hägglunds Bv206 (2010)
Weblinks
Commons: Mountain Warfare Training Center – Sammlung von Bildern, Videos und Audiodateien
Fußnoten
- ↑ Robin Hutton: Sgt. Reckless: America's War Horse. Regnery History, Washington DC 2014, ISBN 978-1-62157-263-3, S. 34.
Koordinaten: 38° 21′ 33″ N, 119° 30′ 45″ W
Auf dieser Seite verwendete Medien
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Lance Cpl. Tyler Langford, anti-tank missileman, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, leads his pack mule during a hike at Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center Bridgeport, Calif., Oct. 13, 2012.
Lance Cpl. Tyler Langford, anti-tank missileman, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, leads his pack mule during a hike at Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center Bridgeport, Calif., Oct. 13, 2012.
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Swedish Hägglunds Bv206 tracked vehicles are used to transport U.S. Marines and gear at Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center, Pickle Meadow, Calif., Jan. 20, 2010. Marines with 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment are training to prepare for upcoming deployments. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Grant T. Walker/Released)
Swedish Hägglunds Bv206 tracked vehicles are used to transport U.S. Marines and gear at Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center, Pickle Meadow, Calif., Jan. 20, 2010. Marines with 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment are training to prepare for upcoming deployments. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Grant T. Walker/Released)
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Autor/Urheber: California National Guard, Lizenz: CC BY 2.0
Autor/Urheber: California National Guard, Lizenz: CC BY 2.0
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An aerial view of the Marine Corps' Mountain Warfare Training Center (MWTC) near Bridgeport, Calif., March 28, 2014. Can you spot the CNG aircraft on the air strip? What are they? What are they doing there?
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U.S. Marines with Combat Logistics Battalion 26, 2nd Marine Logistics Group, load water and meals onto a V-22 Osprey at the U.S. Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center (MWTC) Bridgeport, Calif., Feb. 2, 2015. MWTC trains Marines across the warfighting functions for operations in mountainous, high altitude, and cold weather environments in order to enhance a unit's ability to shoot, move, communicate, sustain, and survive in mountainous regions of the world. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Anthony L. Ortiz/Released)
U.S. Marines with Combat Logistics Battalion 26, 2nd Marine Logistics Group, load water and meals onto a V-22 Osprey at the U.S. Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center (MWTC) Bridgeport, Calif., Feb. 2, 2015. MWTC trains Marines across the warfighting functions for operations in mountainous, high altitude, and cold weather environments in order to enhance a unit's ability to shoot, move, communicate, sustain, and survive in mountainous regions of the world. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Anthony L. Ortiz/Released)
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U.S. Marine Corps Pfc. Ross L. Fuller, left, rifleman, Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division (MARDIV), rappels down a rock face while participating in a basic mountain course, during Mountain Exercise 5-15 at the Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center, Bridgeport, Calif., Sept. 16, 2015. Marines participate in a month-long field exercise focusing on core mission essential tasks such as assault climbing, animal packing and small unit movements, to strengthen expeditionary high altitude warfare tactics in a mountainous environment against a hybrid threat, as they prepare for world-wide deployment. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Kelly L. Street, 2D MARDIV COMCAM/Released)
U.S. Marine Corps Pfc. Ross L. Fuller, left, rifleman, Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division (MARDIV), rappels down a rock face while participating in a basic mountain course, during Mountain Exercise 5-15 at the Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center, Bridgeport, Calif., Sept. 16, 2015. Marines participate in a month-long field exercise focusing on core mission essential tasks such as assault climbing, animal packing and small unit movements, to strengthen expeditionary high altitude warfare tactics in a mountainous environment against a hybrid threat, as they prepare for world-wide deployment. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Kelly L. Street, 2D MARDIV COMCAM/Released)
- Unit: 2D Marine Division Combat Camera
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