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fire superiority [¦fīr sə‚pir·ē′är·əd·ē]:
Fire with greater effect than that of the enemy because of its greater accuracy and volume, making possible advances against the enemy without heavy losses.

The Marine Cops Insider:

An inside look at the gear and equipment we use in today's Corps.

(Graphic by Cpl. Shaltiel Dominguez)

fire superiority [¦fīr sə‚pir·ē′är·əd·ē]: Fire with greater effect than that of the enemy because of its greater accuracy and volume, making possible advances against the enemy without heavy losses. The Marine Cops Insider: An inside look at the gear and equipment we use in today's Corps. (Graphic by Cpl. Shaltiel Dominguez)

Photo by Cpl. Shaltiel Dominguez

Entry-level Marines with Alpha Company, Infantry Training Battalion, School of Infantry-West completed their culminating event at Range 408 here, Sept. 25. The range includes and implements the different infantry occupational specialties at the company level. Medium/light machine guns and mortars suppress the enemy first, providing the supporting fire for a squad size element of riflemen and assaultmen to assault the enemies’ position.

Infantry Training Battalion trains all infantry, entry-level Marines in the skills essential to operating combat environment. Infantry Training Battalion is a 52-day training course that transforms the raw Marine into an infantryman who can fight, survive, and win in a combat situation.

Entry-level Marines with Alpha Company, Infantry Training Battalion, School of Infantry-West completed their culminating event at Range 408 here, Sept. 25. The range includes and implements the different infantry occupational specialties at the company level. Medium/light machine guns and mortars suppress the enemy first, providing the supporting fire for a squad size element of riflemen and assaultmen to assault the enemies’ position. Infantry Training Battalion trains all infantry, entry-level Marines in the skills essential to operating combat environment. Infantry Training Battalion is a 52-day training course that transforms the raw Marine into an infantryman who can fight, survive, and win in a combat situation.

Photo by Cpl. Orrin G. Farmer

Entry-level Marines with Alpha Company, Infantry Training Battalion, School of Infantry-West completed their culminating event at Range 408 here, Sept. 25. The range includes and implements the different infantry occupational specialties at the company level. Medium/light machine guns and mortars suppress the enemy first, providing the supporting fire for a squad size element of riflemen and assaultmen to assault the enemies’ position.

Infantry Training Battalion trains all infantry, entry-level Marines in the skills essential to operating combat environment. Infantry Training Battalion is a 52-day training course that transforms the raw Marine into an infantryman who can fight, survive, and win in a combat situation.

Entry-level Marines with Alpha Company, Infantry Training Battalion, School of Infantry-West completed their culminating event at Range 408 here, Sept. 25. The range includes and implements the different infantry occupational specialties at the company level. Medium/light machine guns and mortars suppress the enemy first, providing the supporting fire for a squad size element of riflemen and assaultmen to assault the enemies’ position. Infantry Training Battalion trains all infantry, entry-level Marines in the skills essential to operating combat environment. Infantry Training Battalion is a 52-day training course that transforms the raw Marine into an infantryman who can fight, survive, and win in a combat situation.

Photo by Cpl. Orrin G. Farmer

Entry-level Marines with Alpha Company, Infantry Training Battalion, School of Infantry-West completed their culminating event at Range 408 here, Sept. 25. The range includes and implements the different infantry occupational specialties at the company level. Medium/light machine guns and mortars suppress the enemy first, providing the supporting fire for a squad size element of riflemen and assaultmen to assault the enemies’ position.

Infantry Training Battalion trains all infantry, entry-level Marines in the skills essential to operating combat environment. Infantry Training Battalion is a 52-day training course that transforms the raw Marine into an infantryman who can fight, survive, and win in a combat situation.

Entry-level Marines with Alpha Company, Infantry Training Battalion, School of Infantry-West completed their culminating event at Range 408 here, Sept. 25. The range includes and implements the different infantry occupational specialties at the company level. Medium/light machine guns and mortars suppress the enemy first, providing the supporting fire for a squad size element of riflemen and assaultmen to assault the enemies’ position. Infantry Training Battalion trains all infantry, entry-level Marines in the skills essential to operating combat environment. Infantry Training Battalion is a 52-day training course that transforms the raw Marine into an infantryman who can fight, survive, and win in a combat situation.

Photo by Cpl. Orrin G. Farmer

Entry-level Marines with Alpha Company, Infantry Training Battalion, School of Infantry-West completed their culminating event at Range 408 here, Sept. 25. The range includes and implements the different infantry occupational specialties at the company level. Medium/light machine guns and mortars suppress the enemy first, providing the supporting fire for a squad size element of riflemen and assaultmen to assault the enemies’ position.

Infantry Training Battalion trains all infantry, entry-level Marines in the skills essential to operating combat environment. Infantry Training Battalion is a 52-day training course that transforms the raw Marine into an infantryman who can fight, survive, and win in a combat situation.

Entry-level Marines with Alpha Company, Infantry Training Battalion, School of Infantry-West completed their culminating event at Range 408 here, Sept. 25. The range includes and implements the different infantry occupational specialties at the company level. Medium/light machine guns and mortars suppress the enemy first, providing the supporting fire for a squad size element of riflemen and assaultmen to assault the enemies’ position. Infantry Training Battalion trains all infantry, entry-level Marines in the skills essential to operating combat environment. Infantry Training Battalion is a 52-day training course that transforms the raw Marine into an infantryman who can fight, survive, and win in a combat situation.

Photo by Cpl. Orrin G. Farmer

Entry-level Marines with Alpha Company, Infantry Training Battalion, School of Infantry-West completed their culminating event at Range 408 here, Sept. 25. The range includes and implements the different infantry occupational specialties at the company level. Medium/light machine guns and mortars suppress the enemy first, providing the supporting fire for a squad size element of riflemen and assaultmen to assault the enemies’ position.

Infantry Training Battalion trains all infantry, entry-level Marines in the skills essential to operating combat environment. Infantry Training Battalion is a 52-day training course that transforms the raw Marine into an infantryman who can fight, survive, and win in a combat situation.

Entry-level Marines with Alpha Company, Infantry Training Battalion, School of Infantry-West completed their culminating event at Range 408 here, Sept. 25. The range includes and implements the different infantry occupational specialties at the company level. Medium/light machine guns and mortars suppress the enemy first, providing the supporting fire for a squad size element of riflemen and assaultmen to assault the enemies’ position. Infantry Training Battalion trains all infantry, entry-level Marines in the skills essential to operating combat environment. Infantry Training Battalion is a 52-day training course that transforms the raw Marine into an infantryman who can fight, survive, and win in a combat situation.

Photo by Cpl. Orrin G. Farmer

Entry-level Marines with Alpha Company, Infantry Training Battalion, School of Infantry-West completed their culminating event at Range 408 here, Sept. 25. The range includes and implements the different infantry occupational specialties at the company level. Medium/light machine guns and mortars suppress the enemy first, providing the supporting fire for a squad size element of riflemen and assaultmen to assault the enemies’ position.

Infantry Training Battalion trains all infantry, entry-level Marines in the skills essential to operating combat environment. Infantry Training Battalion is a 52-day training course that transforms the raw Marine into an infantryman who can fight, survive, and win in a combat situation.

Entry-level Marines with Alpha Company, Infantry Training Battalion, School of Infantry-West completed their culminating event at Range 408 here, Sept. 25. The range includes and implements the different infantry occupational specialties at the company level. Medium/light machine guns and mortars suppress the enemy first, providing the supporting fire for a squad size element of riflemen and assaultmen to assault the enemies’ position. Infantry Training Battalion trains all infantry, entry-level Marines in the skills essential to operating combat environment. Infantry Training Battalion is a 52-day training course that transforms the raw Marine into an infantryman who can fight, survive, and win in a combat situation.

Photo by Cpl. Orrin G. Farmer

Entry-level Marines with Alpha Company, Infantry Training Battalion, School of Infantry-West completed their culminating event at Range 408 here, Sept. 25. The range includes and implements the different infantry occupational specialties at the company level. Medium/light machine guns and mortars suppress the enemy first, providing the supporting fire for a squad size element of riflemen and assaultmen to assault the enemies’ position.

Infantry Training Battalion trains all infantry, entry-level Marines in the skills essential to operating combat environment. Infantry Training Battalion is a 52-day training course that transforms the raw Marine into an infantryman who can fight, survive, and win in a combat situation.

Entry-level Marines with Alpha Company, Infantry Training Battalion, School of Infantry-West completed their culminating event at Range 408 here, Sept. 25. The range includes and implements the different infantry occupational specialties at the company level. Medium/light machine guns and mortars suppress the enemy first, providing the supporting fire for a squad size element of riflemen and assaultmen to assault the enemies’ position. Infantry Training Battalion trains all infantry, entry-level Marines in the skills essential to operating combat environment. Infantry Training Battalion is a 52-day training course that transforms the raw Marine into an infantryman who can fight, survive, and win in a combat situation.

Photo by Cpl. Orrin G. Farmer

Entry-level Marines with Alpha Company, Infantry Training Battalion, School of Infantry-West completed their culminating event at Range 408 here, Sept. 25. The range includes and implements the different infantry occupational specialties at the company level. Medium/light machine guns and mortars suppress the enemy first, providing the supporting fire for a squad size element of riflemen and assaultmen to assault the enemies’ position.

Infantry Training Battalion trains all infantry, entry-level Marines in the skills essential to operating combat environment. Infantry Training Battalion is a 52-day training course that transforms the raw Marine into an infantryman who can fight, survive, and win in a combat situation.

Entry-level Marines with Alpha Company, Infantry Training Battalion, School of Infantry-West completed their culminating event at Range 408 here, Sept. 25. The range includes and implements the different infantry occupational specialties at the company level. Medium/light machine guns and mortars suppress the enemy first, providing the supporting fire for a squad size element of riflemen and assaultmen to assault the enemies’ position. Infantry Training Battalion trains all infantry, entry-level Marines in the skills essential to operating combat environment. Infantry Training Battalion is a 52-day training course that transforms the raw Marine into an infantryman who can fight, survive, and win in a combat situation.

Photo by Cpl. Orrin G. Farmer

Entry-level Marines with Alpha Company, Infantry Training Battalion, School of Infantry-West completed their culminating event at Range 408 here, Sept. 25. The range includes and implements the different infantry occupational specialties at the company level. Medium/light machine guns and mortars suppress the enemy first, providing the supporting fire for a squad size element of riflemen and assaultmen to assault the enemies’ position.

Infantry Training Battalion trains all infantry, entry-level Marines in the skills essential to operating combat environment. Infantry Training Battalion is a 52-day training course that transforms the raw Marine into an infantryman who can fight, survive, and win in a combat situation.

Entry-level Marines with Alpha Company, Infantry Training Battalion, School of Infantry-West completed their culminating event at Range 408 here, Sept. 25. The range includes and implements the different infantry occupational specialties at the company level. Medium/light machine guns and mortars suppress the enemy first, providing the supporting fire for a squad size element of riflemen and assaultmen to assault the enemies’ position. Infantry Training Battalion trains all infantry, entry-level Marines in the skills essential to operating combat environment. Infantry Training Battalion is a 52-day training course that transforms the raw Marine into an infantryman who can fight, survive, and win in a combat situation.

Photo by Cpl. Orrin G. Farmer

Entry-level Marines with Alpha Company, Infantry Training Battalion, School of Infantry-West completed their culminating event at Range 408 here, Sept. 25. The range includes and implements the different infantry occupational specialties at the company level. Medium/light machine guns and mortars suppress the enemy first, providing the supporting fire for a squad size element of riflemen and assaultmen to assault the enemies’ position.

Infantry Training Battalion trains all infantry, entry-level Marines in the skills essential to operating combat environment. Infantry Training Battalion is a 52-day training course that transforms the raw Marine into an infantryman who can fight, survive, and win in a combat situation.

Entry-level Marines with Alpha Company, Infantry Training Battalion, School of Infantry-West completed their culminating event at Range 408 here, Sept. 25. The range includes and implements the different infantry occupational specialties at the company level. Medium/light machine guns and mortars suppress the enemy first, providing the supporting fire for a squad size element of riflemen and assaultmen to assault the enemies’ position. Infantry Training Battalion trains all infantry, entry-level Marines in the skills essential to operating combat environment. Infantry Training Battalion is a 52-day training course that transforms the raw Marine into an infantryman who can fight, survive, and win in a combat situation.

Photo by Cpl. Orrin G. Farmer

Sgt. Shane M. Cell, a combat instructor with Headquarters & Instructor Company, Infantry Training Battalion, School of Infantry - West, teaches Marines how to construct a breaching charge as part of the ITB assaultman course, Sept. 22. Combat instructors work long hours every week to ensure each company of approximately 300 Marines are technically and tactically proficient before the end of either the 59-day ITB or 29-day Marine Combat Training curriculum. They teach new Marines infantry weapons systems and ground combat skills such as land navigation, military operations in urban terrain and the fundamentals of the combat hunter course.

(U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Shaltiel Dominguez)

Sgt. Shane M. Cell, a combat instructor with Headquarters & Instructor Company, Infantry Training Battalion, School of Infantry - West, teaches Marines how to construct a breaching charge as part of the ITB assaultman course, Sept. 22. Combat instructors work long hours every week to ensure each company of approximately 300 Marines are technically and tactically proficient before the end of either the 59-day ITB or 29-day Marine Combat Training curriculum. They teach new Marines infantry weapons systems and ground combat skills such as land navigation, military operations in urban terrain and the fundamentals of the combat hunter course. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Shaltiel Dominguez)

Photo by Cpl. Shaltiel Dominguez

The Marine Corps Base Spartans claimed a 34-0 victory against the previously undefeated Miramar Falcons at the Paige Fieldhouse football field, Sept. 23. Each team now has a record of 3-1 after the dominant performance by the Spartans.

The Marine Corps Base Spartans claimed a 34-0 victory against the previously undefeated Miramar Falcons at the Paige Fieldhouse football field, Sept. 23. Each team now has a record of 3-1 after the dominant performance by the Spartans.

Photo by Cpl. Shaltiel Dominguez

Camp Pendleton service members and their families are encouraged to be prepared for natural disasters that could occur in Southern California. September is designated as National Preparedness Month and this year, President Barack Obama has declared Sept. 30 as America’s ‘PrepareAthon Day,’ a day of action for individuals, organizations and communities to prepare for all types of natural disasters.(

Camp Pendleton service members and their families are encouraged to be prepared for natural disasters that could occur in Southern California. September is designated as National Preparedness Month and this year, President Barack Obama has declared Sept. 30 as America’s ‘PrepareAthon Day,’ a day of action for individuals, organizations and communities to prepare for all types of natural disasters.(

Photo by U.S. Department of Defense

More than 50 Marines from various units came together to compete in the Combat Water Polo Tournament at the 13 Area pool, here, Sept. 24. The teams were comprised of seven to 10 Marines, each wearing boots and utilities while trying to claim first place.

More than 50 Marines from various units came together to compete in the Combat Water Polo Tournament at the 13 Area pool, here, Sept. 24. The teams were comprised of seven to 10 Marines, each wearing boots and utilities while trying to claim first place.

Photo by Sgt. Christopher Duncan

More than 50 Marines from various units came together to compete in the Combat Water Polo Tournament at the 13 Area pool, here, Sept. 24. The teams were comprised of seven to 10 Marines, each wearing boots and utilities while trying to claim first place.

More than 50 Marines from various units came together to compete in the Combat Water Polo Tournament at the 13 Area pool, here, Sept. 24. The teams were comprised of seven to 10 Marines, each wearing boots and utilities while trying to claim first place.

Photo by Sgt. Christopher Duncan

More than 50 Marines from various units came together to compete in the Combat Water Polo Tournament at the 13 Area pool, here, Sept. 24. The teams were comprised of seven to 10 Marines, each wearing boots and utilities while trying to claim first place.

More than 50 Marines from various units came together to compete in the Combat Water Polo Tournament at the 13 Area pool, here, Sept. 24. The teams were comprised of seven to 10 Marines, each wearing boots and utilities while trying to claim first place.

Photo by Sgt. Christopher Duncan

More than 50 Marines from various units came together to compete in the Combat Water Polo Tournament at the 13 Area pool, here, Sept. 24. The teams were comprised of seven to 10 Marines, each wearing boots and utilities while trying to claim first place.

More than 50 Marines from various units came together to compete in the Combat Water Polo Tournament at the 13 Area pool, here, Sept. 24. The teams were comprised of seven to 10 Marines, each wearing boots and utilities while trying to claim first place.

Photo by Sgt. Christopher Duncan

More than 50 Marines from various units came together to compete in the Combat Water Polo Tournament at the 13 Area pool, here, Sept. 24. The teams were comprised of seven to 10 Marines, each wearing boots and utilities while trying to claim first place.

More than 50 Marines from various units came together to compete in the Combat Water Polo Tournament at the 13 Area pool, here, Sept. 24. The teams were comprised of seven to 10 Marines, each wearing boots and utilities while trying to claim first place.

Photo by Sgt. Christopher Duncan

More than 50 Marines from various units came together to compete in the Combat Water Polo Tournament at the 13 Area pool, here, Sept. 24. The teams were comprised of seven to 10 Marines, each wearing boots and utilities while trying to claim first place.

More than 50 Marines from various units came together to compete in the Combat Water Polo Tournament at the 13 Area pool, here, Sept. 24. The teams were comprised of seven to 10 Marines, each wearing boots and utilities while trying to claim first place.

Photo by Sgt. Christopher Duncan