U.S. Navy Landing Craft, Air Cushion 27, belonging to Assault Craft Unit (ACU) 5, approaches shore during a 1st Landing Support Battalion (LSB), Combat Logistics Regiment 1, 1st Marine Logistics Group training exercise aboard Camp Pendleton, California, June 10, 2021. ACU 5 conducted this joint exercise with 1st LSB in order to strengthen and refine the Marine Corps’ abilities to conduct ship to shore operations as part of a Naval Expeditionary Force-in-Readiness. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Austin Gillam)
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A U.S. Sailor, with Assault Craft Unit (ACU) 5, guides a convoy from 1st Landing Support Battalion (LSB), Combat Logistics Regiment 1, 1st Marine Logistics Group, onto a landing craft, air cushion during a training exercise on Camp Pendleton, California, June 10, 2021. ACU 5 conducted this joint exercise with 1st LSB in order to strengthen and refine the Navy and Marine Corps’ abilities to conduct ship to shore operations as part of a Naval Expeditionary Force-in-Readiness. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Austin Gillam)
U.S. Marine Lt. Col. Jonathan Peterson, commanding officer, 1st Landing Support Battalion, Combat Logistics Regiment 1, 1st Marine Logistics Group, I Marine Expeditionary Force, and Sergeant Major Sara Lopez, sergeant major, 1st LSB, CLR-1, 1st MLG, I MEF dawn the colors for 1st LSB to signify the unit’s activation on Camp Pendleton Calif., 15 Oct. 2020. The activation of 1st LSB aligns with the Commandant’s vison for force design and provides the 1st MLG with added landing support and distribution capabilities, enhancing the expeditionary maneuver warfare vision for the future. 1st LSB will be able to support our naval expeditionary force with capabilities such as aerial resupply via helicopter support teams, parachute drops, port operations, beach operations, and rail operations as the main effort.
Lieutenant Colonel Peterson is a native of Bismarck, North Dakota, and graduated from North Dakota
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Sergeant Major Sara Noemi Lopez was born in El Salvador, migrated to the United States in 1988, and