Lance Cpl. Jacob B. Frank, a Massillon, Ohio, native and rifleman with Golf Company, 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, shouts commands to his fire team during a simulated machine gun bunker assault. (Photo by Cpl. Andrew Johnston)
More than 45 Marines with 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, participated in a Tactical Small-Unit Leadership Course.
The main focus of the event was to take potential fire team leaders out of their comfort zone and into simulated combat situations where decisions normally made by others were now up to them.
“Right now, these are the guys that were the new Marines last year before our deployment, so they’ve pretty much been living in the shadows of their leaders up to this point,” Sgt. Taylor L. Limes, from Crestview, Fla., 2nd Bn., 2nd Marines, TSULC squad mentor, said “This is our chance to pull these guys and mentor them before they’re filling in the positions of outbound Marines. We’re building their confidence so they’re ready to step up and take charge.”
The unit returned from a deployment as a Battalion Landing Team with the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit in February and is in the process of a personnel rotation. The majority of Marines currently holding billets as fire team leaders are either transitioning out of the Corps or the unit, 1st Lt. Stephen T. Desmond, a Scituate, Mass., native and officer in charge of the battalion’s TSULC.
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