Provide the Fleet Marine Forces with operational functionality in order to enhance warfighting capabilities, facilitate the strengthening of coalition partnerships and joint region relationships, while projecting forward presence.
U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Andrea Rosembert, the administrative non-commissioned officer for Marine Corps Base Camp Blaz, grades a student from Southern High School’s Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps program during their inspection as part of an island-wide JROTC drill meet in Dededo, Guam, Feb. 17, 2024. Okkodo High School held the drill competition with active duty service members serving as judges to evaluate each school’s performance in unarmed, armed, and color guard competitions with both regulation and exhibition routines. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Ryan Little)
U.S. Marines Corps Sgt. Kendell Jones, the manpower clerk stationed on Marine Corps Base (MCB) Camp Blaz, applies a tourniquet to Cpl. Enrique Sandoval, a food service specialist with MCB Camp Blaz, during a Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) course on MCB Camp Blaz, Guam, Feb. 22, 2024. TCCC is a joint standardized certification being implemented within the Marine Corps to provide non-medical personnel with the medical skills necessary to ensure lifesaving treatment can be rendered in the absence of a Corpsman and improve the survivability of those wounded or injured in combat. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Ryan Little)
U.S. Marines, Sailors, and Airmen recite the Non-Commissioned Officer creed during a corporal's course graduation ceremony held by Marine Corps Base Camp Blaz in Guam, Feb. 9, 2024. Corporal's Course is designed to provide general military knowledge to Marines as well as instill confidence and strength to lead other Marines as a Non-Commissioned Officer. The Corporal's Course held by Camp Blaz was available to all service members on Guam, providing interservice professional military education. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Ryan Little)
U.S. Marines with the Marine Corps Base Camp Blaz communication section conduct a hike on MCB Camp Blaz, Guam, Jan. 12, 2024. The Marines stepped off on a section level hike to maintain physical readiness and boost section morale. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Garrett Gillespie)
U.S. Marines stationed on Guam run past the village of Piti in Guam during a 248-mile run as part of a celebration of the upcoming Marine Corps 248th Birthday, Nov. 8, 2023. The run began at the Southern Invasion Beach where Marines with the 1st Provisional Marine Brigade landed during the Battle of Guam on July 21, 1944. Participants also ran past Asan Beach where Marines with 3rd Marine Division landed during the battle. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Gunnery Sgt. Rubin J. Tan)
U.S. Marines assigned to the Marine Corps Base Camp Blaz color guard present arms as the National Anthem is played during the 248th Marine Corps birthday ball held in Tumon, Guam, Nov. 10, 2023. The Marine Corps birthday ceremony honors the history, legacy and traditions passed down from generation to generation since the founding of the Corps on Nov. 10, 1775. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Gunnery Sgt. Rubin J. Tan)
U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Tylerruben Salas, small arms repair technician for Marine Corps Base Camp Blaz, conducts rifle, pre-fire inspections before shooting on Marine Corps Base Camp Blaz, Guam, Sept. 25, 2023. The Marine Corps’ Program Manager for Training Systems will conduct target calibration from Sept. 25 to Oct. 27 and testing from Dec. 4-15. Two of four ranges at the Live Fire Training Range Complex will be equipped with new technology that provide more efficient and effective combat marksmanship training to support combat readiness. The live-fire location of miss and hit or LOMAH technology, replaces the human element of observing and marking targets. The calibration and testing are to ensure that the LOMAH system is working properly. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Garrett Gillespie)
Marines with Marine Corps Base (MCB) Camp Blaz sing cadences during a motivational run on MCB Camp Blaz, Guam, August 10, 2023. The Marines prepared for a motivational run to lift camaraderie within the unit. The tradition of motivational runs represents the core values of the Marine Corps, to show unit pride and build esprit de corps. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Garrett Gillespie)
U.S. Marines and civilian personnel from Marine Corps Base (MCB) Camp Blaz partnered with the Dededo Mayor’s office on Feb. 5, 2024, to touch up a bus stop previously painted and decorated by Marines in 2021.
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As Marine Corps Base Camp Blaz continues to get closer to becoming fully operational in the Indo-Pacific. Training facilities are also nearing completion. Marine Corps Systems Commands Program Manager for Training Systems has started conducting target calibration from Sept. 25 to Oct. 27 and live-fire testing Nov. 27 to Dec. 15. This marks the very first live-fire activity at the Live-Fire-Training-Range-Complex and will start the establishment of the safety buffer area to ensure public safety when the ranges are being used.
Col. Christopher L. Bopp relinquished command of Marine Corps Base (MCB) Camp Blaz to Col. Ernest
The site of the island’s last mature Serianthes nelsonii tree on Marine Corps Base (MCB) Camp Blaz, was not left untouched by Mother Nature. While the tree’s trunk remains rooted, the main boughs broke away leaving a branchless and leafless wood pillar. However, just below what was recently the S. nelsonii’s canopy, multiple seedlings are growing, hungry for the new-found sunlight.