A U.S. Marine with the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit’s (MEU) Maritime Special Purpose Force, clears a room while conducting a simulated raid during Composite Training Unit Exercise (C2X)

 

A U.S. Marine with the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit’s (MEU) Maritime Special Purpose Force, clears a room while conducting a simulated raid during Composite Training Unit Exercise (C2X), the last exercise in the pre-deployment training program for the Bataan Amphibious Ready Group and 26th MEU.

A raid is a mission requiring a small force to swiftly penetrate hostile territory to secure information, confuse the enemy, or to destroy their installations, and ends with a planned withdrawal upon completion of the mission.