Recon Marines assigned to the 22nd MEU & Finnish soldiers with Nyland Brigade and Coastal Jaeger Battalion participated in an island seizure exercise in Russaro, Finland

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U.S. Marines assigned to @22nd_MEU and Finnish soldiers with Nyland Brigade and Coastal Jaeger Battalion participated in an island seizure exercise in Russaro,#Finland.#StrongerTogether pic.twitter.com/KGbOMSBt75

— U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa/U.S. Sixth Fleet (@USNavyEurope) August 12, 2022

I guess the BLT was off providing security for the MLRS and M777's. No worries. The new coastal missile force can rely on Recon to do island seizures, while they plink a ship or two and die violently, noisely and fulfill the recon/counterrecon role of letting the Fleet know where the enemy is.