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Video by Sgt. Jacqueline Peguero-Montes

Battalion Landing Team 1/8 Participates In Defense Amphibious Task Force Training Aboard USS New York (LPD 21)

24th Marine Expeditionary Unit

April 26, 2024 | 2:36

U.S. Marines and Sailors with the Wasp (WSP) Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) – 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), participate in defense of amphibious task force training aboard the San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship USS New York (LPD 21) while the WSP ARG conducts a simulated strait transit during Composite Unit Training (COMPTUEX), while underway in the Atlantic Ocean, April 26, 2024. The WSP ARG-24th MEU is conducting COMPTUEX, their final at-sea certification exercise under the evaluation of Carrier Strike Group 4 and Expeditionary Operations Training Group. Throughout COMPTUEX, the WSP ARG-24th MEU is evaluated across a spectrum of scenarios that determine their readiness to deploy. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Sgt. Jacqueline Peguero-Montes)