News Stories

Marines and augments with Combat Logistics Company 36 carry a causality of an Improvised Explosive Device during Exercise Dragon Fire 2014 at Combined Arms Training Center Camp Fuji, Japan, July 19. While just a training event, Sgt. Paul Faucheux, an explosive ordnance disposal technician with Marine Corps Installations Pacific, said this provided junior Marines an introduction to IED strikes and allowed noncommissioned officers to teach them, as well as to challenge their combat leadership in countering IED strikes. - Marines and augments with Combat Logistics Company 36 carry a causality of an Improvised Explosive Device during Exercise Dragon Fire 2014 at Combined Arms Training Center Camp Fuji, Japan, July 19. While just a training event, Sgt. Paul Faucheux, an explosive ordnance disposal technician with Marine Corps Installations Pacific, said this provided junior Marines an introduction to IED strikes and allowed noncommissioned officers to teach them, as well as to challenge their combat leadership in countering IED strikes.

Staff Sgt. Nathan Southwick, a Tactical Readiness and Training instructor with Combat Logistics Regiment 37, demonstrates how to clear a room while doing Military Operations on Urban Terrain training to Combat Logistics Company 36 Marines and augments during Exercise Dragon Fire 2014 at Combined Arms Training Center Camp Fuji, Japan, July 17. Southwick is with an infantrymen group that assists various units within the 3rd Marine Logistics Group. - Staff Sgt. Nathan Southwick, a Tactical Readiness and Training instructor with Combat Logistics Regiment 37, demonstrates how to clear a room while doing Military Operations on Urban Terrain training to Combat Logistics Company 36 Marines and augments during Exercise Dragon Fire 2014 at Combined Arms Training Center Camp Fuji, Japan, July 17. Southwick is with an infantrymen group that assists various units within the 3rd Marine Logistics Group.

Capt. Roderick J. Singleton Jr., Combat Logistic Company 36 commanding officer, speaks to CLC-36 Marines and augments on his expectation for the squad movements and live fire range during Exercise Dragon Fire 2014 at Combined Arms Training Center Camp Fuji, Japan, July 17. Dragon Fire is CLC-36’s annual Battle Skills Training exercise that focuses on improving the individual and collective combat skills of CLC-36 service members with an emphasis on weapons familiarization training. - Capt. Roderick J. Singleton Jr., Combat Logistic Company 36 commanding officer, speaks to CLC-36 Marines and augments on his expectation for the squad movements and live fire range during Exercise Dragon Fire 2014 at Combined Arms Training Center Camp Fuji, Japan, July 17. Dragon Fire is CLC-36’s annual Battle Skills Training exercise that focuses on improving the individual and collective combat skills of CLC-36 service members with an emphasis on weapons familiarization training.

Lt. Cmdr. Harvey Macklin, regimental chaplain with Combat Logistics Regiment 35, leads prayer in a sermon during Exercise Dragon Fire 2014 at Combined Arms Training Center Camp Fuji, Japan, July 13. Macklin conducted the sermon for Combat Logistics Company 36 Marines and augments as a pause from military operations on urban terrain to boost morale and foster unit cohesion. - Lt. Cmdr. Harvey Macklin, regimental chaplain with Combat Logistics Regiment 35, leads prayer in a sermon during Exercise Dragon Fire 2014 at Combined Arms Training Center Camp Fuji, Japan, July 13. Macklin conducted the sermon for Combat Logistics Company 36 Marines and augments as a pause from military operations on urban terrain to boost morale and foster unit cohesion.

Lance Cpl. Benjamin Martin, a metal worker with Combat Logistics Company 36, fires an M249 light machine gun as part of his crew served weapons training during Exercise Dragon Fire 2014 at Combined Arms Combat Training Center Camp Fuji, Japan, July 13. The M249 fires 5.56mm rounds at 800 rounds per minute in a cyclic rate. - Lance Cpl. Benjamin Martin, a metal worker with Combat Logistics Company 36, fires an M249 light machine gun as part of his crew served weapons training during Exercise Dragon Fire 2014 at Combined Arms Combat Training Center Camp Fuji, Japan, July 13. The M249 fires 5.56mm rounds at 800 rounds per minute in a cyclic rate.

Pfc. Joshua Van Westen, a fiscal clerk with Combat Logistics Company 36, loads his M-16A4 service rifle magazine before conducting reaction drills during Exercise Dragon Fire 2014 at Combined Arms Training Center Camp Fuji, Japan, July 13. Dragon Fire is CLC-36’s annual Battle Skills Training exercise that focuses on improving the individual and collective combat skills of CLC-36 service members with an emphasis on weapons familiarization training. - Pfc. Joshua Van Westen, a fiscal clerk with Combat Logistics Company 36, loads his M-16A4 service rifle magazine before conducting reaction drills during Exercise Dragon Fire 2014 at Combined Arms Training Center Camp Fuji, Japan, July 13. Dragon Fire is CLC-36’s annual Battle Skills Training exercise that focuses on improving the individual and collective combat skills of CLC-36 service members with an emphasis on weapons familiarization training.

Cpl. Arian Villicanagaray, a heavy equipment mechanic with Combat Logistics Company 36, crosses a creek during land navigation training as a part of Exercise Dragon Fire 2014 at Combined Arms Training Center Camp Fuji, Japan, July 13. Dragon Fire is CLC-36’s annual Battle Skills Training exercise that focuses on improving the individual and collective combat skills of CLC-36 service members with an emphasis on weapons familiarization training. - Cpl. Arian Villicanagaray, a heavy equipment mechanic with Combat Logistics Company 36, crosses a creek during land navigation training as a part of Exercise Dragon Fire 2014 at Combined Arms Training Center Camp Fuji, Japan, July 13. Dragon Fire is CLC-36’s annual Battle Skills Training exercise that focuses on improving the individual and collective combat skills of CLC-36 service members with an emphasis on weapons familiarization training.

M69 practice grenades, better known as a "bluebodies," rest on the ground as part of a grenade training evolution for Combat Logistics Company 36 during Exercise Dragon 2014 Fire at Combined Arms Training Center Camp Fuji, Japan, July 12. Service members practiced with bluebodies to re-learn the procedures before throwing live grenades. - M69 practice grenades, better known as a "bluebodies," rest on the ground as part of a grenade training evolution for Combat Logistics Company 36 during Exercise Dragon 2014 Fire at Combined Arms Training Center Camp Fuji, Japan, July 12. Service members practiced with bluebodies to re-learn the procedures before throwing live grenades.