Private First Class Michael De Vries, rifleman, Alpha Company, First LAR

Private First Class Michael De Vries, rifleman, Alpha Company, 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, and a native of Rhinebeck, N.Y., teaches basic infantry skills during a live-fire exercise on Range 210F  Oct. 23, 2013. photo LCpl. C.J.Moore

Lance Cpl. Luis Maganapetrana, crewman, Alpha Company First LAR

Lance Cpl. Luis Maganapetrana, crewman, Alpha Company, 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion,  Merced, Calif., throws a practice M67 fragmentation grenade during a live-fire exercise on Range 210F MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP PENDLETON Oct. 23, 2013. Photo LCPL. C.J.Moore

Alpha 1LAR Marines on Live Fire Practice

 Alpha Company Marines, 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, throw M67 fragmentation grenades during a live-fire exercise on Range 210F here, Oct. 23, 2013. The Marines fired light anti-armor weapons, M203 grenade launchers and conducted buddy rushes. Photo LCpl. C.J.Moore

Sgt. Jason Michael Simms, Delta Co. 3rd PLT., 2LAR awarded Dickies American Hero award

From the Daily Times News: "Retired Marine Sgt. Jason Michael Simms,  a member of Delta Company, Third Platoon, 2nd Light Armored Reconnaissance,  Haverford native who was critically injured by a roadside bomb while serving in Iraq in 2004 as  a member of Delta Company, Third Platoon, 2nd Light Armored Reconnaissance, will be awarded $25,000 Tuesday as the winner of the Dickies American Hero of the Year Contest during a ceremony at Joint Base Maguire-Dix-Lakehurst in New Jersey. 

Retired Major Jennifer Marino meets with Gold Star families across America

Retired Marine Major Jennifer Marino (third from the right) poses for a picture with a gold star family and supporters, along with Lt. Col. Patrick Keane, the commanding officer of 2nd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, Oct. 22, 2013. Marino rode a bicycle across the country to meet with gold star families about loved ones the families lost in the military. photo LCpl. Scott Whiting

3LAR at Pioneer Days Celebration

Marines with 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion drive a Light Armored Vehicle down Adobe Road during the 77th annual Pioneer Days parade Oct. 19, 2013.  Photo LCpl.  Pioneer Days celebration began Oct. 17 and lasted till Sunday.  Photo LCpl Alejandro Bedoya

The multi-day event consisted of a parade, a carnival, a pancake breakfast hosted by the Twentynine Palms fire department, a chili dinner, a K-9 demonstration by the Combat Center’s military police dog handlers and a static display by the explosive ordnance disposal unit.

The CMC presents Staff Sgt. Jon E. Osborn, acting first sergeant Delta Co., 2nd LAR, with Bestwick Award

General James F. Amos, Commandant of the Marine Corps, presents the Sgt. Maj. Wilber Bestwick Award to Staff Sgt. Jon E. Osborn, acting first sergeant, Delta Co., 2nd LAR  for his contributions to Delta Co. combat readiness, Sept. 25, 2013.  Osborn has worked tirelessly to keep his unit combat ready.  The Bestwick Award is named for the first Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps, and is  given to an enlisted Marine in  ground combat  operating forces who has made an outstanding contribution to increased combat readiness.  (Official Marine Corps photo by Cpl Sonia N. Rodriguez)

30th Anniversary Celebration for 2D LAV, LAI, LAR BN-- AUG 2014

The Destroyers Chapter will be celebrating 30 years of the battalions history  August 5th-9th, 2014 aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, NC in conjunction with the 2D Marine Division Associations 65th Annual Reunion. 

More information will be available at www.thedestroyerschapter.com orhttps://www.facebook.com/events/572197492817279/.  I

UPCOV, unknown platoon, company, or volunteers from 2LAR are in Romania getting some training

MIHAIL KOGALNICEANU, Romania - Marines assigned to Black Sea Rotational Force 14, from the 2nd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion and Airmen with the 352nd Special Operations Group, joined forces for C-130 training at the airfield in Mihail Kogalniceanu, Romania, Sept. 12th.

Lance Cpl. Taylor Janis, Echo Company, 4thLAR, Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal

 Lance Cpl. Taylor Janis, a light-armored vehicle crewman with Co. E, 4th Light-Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, is pinned by his company commander at an awards ceremony, Sept. 14, 2013. Janis was awarded a Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal for saving an 8-year-old boy from a crashed car accident in March. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Tiffany Edwards)

 Lance Cpl. Taylor Janis risked his life to pull an 8-year-old boy named Matthew from a badly damaged vehicle. 
 in a head-on collision that claimed the lives of the boy’s mother, brother and a family friend, in addition to putting his 2-year-old sister in critical condition.

For his heroic actions, Janis was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal Sept. 14 at his unit’s drill center in Syracuse, N.Y.

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2LAR War Pig on Lejeune firing line

 2nd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion,  during annual gunnery qualification training Sept. 3, 2013 at training range SR-7 aboard Camp Lejeune, N.C photo. Pfc. Jose Mendez Jr.
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Lance Corporal Michael Cerbo, 2LAR

Lance Corporal Michael Cerbo, a mortorman with 2nd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, Alpha Company, 1st platoon and Rochelle Park, NJ  executes a left hand punch during Marine Corps Martial Arts Program training aboard Mihail Kogalniceanu, Romania, Sept. 10th. photo Lance Cpl. Krista James

09/11/2001

http://www.iwar.org.uk/news-archive/9-11/america-attacked-9-11.htm

 September 11, 2001, 19 hijackers took control of four commercial airliners (two Boeing 757 and two Boeing 767) en route to California (three headed to LAX in Los Angeles, and one to San Francisco) after takeoffs from Boston, Massachusetts;Newark, New Jersey; and Washington, D.C.^[4] Large planes with long flights were intentionally selected for hijacking because they would be heavily fueled.^{[5http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks}

Charlie Co, 2 LAR on Raid Course

Thanks to a reader, Charlie Company,Two LAR was the phantom unit light armored reconnaissance company that completed the motorized raid course at Lejune, Aug. 22, 2013.  

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20 Unidentified War Pigs from Unknown LAR Unit complete motorized raid course

"Approximately 120 Marines in more than 20 light armored vehicles (LAVs) worked alongside Alpha Co., BLT 1/6, during the weeklong field exercise." This is Pfc. Connor Lowry, {Battalion Landing Team (BLT) 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU),} a light armored reconnaissance company scout from a mystery war pig unit  more: http://www.dvidshub.net/news/112971/22nd-meu-lar-marines-complete-motorized-raid-course#.UiYjJxbhCow#ixzz2dr1WwXH2
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War Pigs Down Under, mate

Light Armored Reconnaissance Vehicles with Weapons Co., Battalion Landing Team 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, on a 379 mile push into the Australian outback  Aug. 31.photo Cpl. Dominic E. Ferguson
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Lance Cpl. Dominic E. Ferguson,. Delta 3rd LAR

Lance Cpl. Dominic E. Ferguson on  security for his fire team during a platoon-level military operations in urban terrain and counterinsurgency exercise Aug. 15 at the Combat Town.  Ferguson is a Light Armored Vehicle driver with Weapons Platoon, Company D, 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion. photo by Lance Cpl. Brandon C. Suhr

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Lance Cpl. Dominic E. Ferguson, Lance Cpl. Beck A. Blevins Delt ahree LAR

Lance Cpl. Dominic E. Ferguson assists Lance Cpl. Beck A. Blevins over a wall during a platoon-level military operations in urban terrain and counter-insurgency exercise Aug. 15 at the Combat Town. Ferguson is a Light Armored Vehicle driver and Blevins is a LAV crewman with Weapons Platoon, Company D, 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion,  photo by Lance Cpl. Brandon C. Suhr

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Cpl. Nikolas C. Wurdelman 3rd LAR

Cpl. Nikolas C. Wurdelman,Aug. 15, on platoon-level  operations in urban terrain and counterinsurgency operations training at the Combat Town.  Wurdelman is a team leader with Weapons Platoon, Company D, 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion photo by Lance Cpl. Brandon C. Suhr

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Bravo 2LAR

Bravo Company, 2nd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, begin firing the 25mm M242 Chain Gun on a light armored vehicle 25A2, as part of a gunner exercise at Shooting Range 7, August 5, 2013. The exercise consists of five different courses of fire including still and moving fire. photo LCPL. Krista James

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