Gearing up for truck convoy training

Aug. 22, 2017
Convoy training with the U.S. Marine Corps

When you are tasked with handling combat logistics for the U.S. Marin Corps, trucks are but one of the tools you need to use to fulfill that mission. Delivering food, water, and ammunition to the front lines under fire and in bad weather is no easy task, so the Marines engage in regular training to ensure their motor transport troopers know what to do in such situations. A recent training exercise in the mountains of California by Combat Logistics Battalion 5 (CLB-5) of the Combat Logistics Regiment 1 within the 1st Marine Logistics Group illustrates just some of the tasks these Marines undergo as part of that logistics learning process. (All photos by Lance Cpl. Timothy Shoemaker.)

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Sean Kilcarr is a former longtime FleetOwner senior editor who wrote for the publication from 2000 to 2018. He served as editor-in-chief from 2017 to 2018.

 

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