Tuesday, October 9, 2012

South Bend and Mishawaka, Indiana; October 9, 2012

10/4/2012 By Cpl. John Robbart III

15th MEU

Lance Cpl. Anthony C. Bocz, assessment consequence management team member, Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defense Platoon, 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, adjusts the M50 field protective mask on a Marine from Weapons Company, Battalion Landing Team 3/5, 15th MEU, during a class on CBRN defense aboard the USS Peleliu, Oct. 4. The 15th MEU's CBRN Defense Platoon is spending an entire month preparing the 2,400 servicemembers that make up the MEU on how to properly operate in contaminated environments. The 15th MEU is currently embarked as part of the Peleliu Amphibious Ready Group, while they serve as the nation's rapid-response sea-based Marine Air Ground Task Force for Western Pacific Deployment 12-02. Bocz, 20, is from Sacramento, Calif.


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