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Video by Sgt. Jacqueline Peguero-Montes

Battalion Landing Team 1/8 Teaches Weapons Familiarization Aboard USS New York (LPD 21)

24th Marine Expeditionary Unit

April 27, 2024 | 2:48

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Donovan Gawryl and Lance Cpl. Louis Celi with Charlie Company, Battalion Landing Team 1/8, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), teach a weapons familiarization class to the Sailors aboard the San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship USS New York (LPD 21) during Composite Unit Training (COMPTUEX), while underway in the Atlantic Ocean, April 27, 2024. The Wasp (WSP) Amphibious Ready Group (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)