 Marines with First Combat Engineer Battalion conducted a ship-to-shore exercise on White Beach aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, March 5th. The purpose of the training is to help better train us so we can be better prepared for future endeavors. This job helps support the Marine Corps by making sure that we're better trained and we can support the meth in any way we can. The Marines did really good today. They're really motivated and they knew what to do as soon as they got on the Elkac. The training involved the successful cooperation between Navy and Marine Corps forces to move vehicles from offshore to land using a landing craft air cushion or Elkac. Training, training, repetitive training. If future deployments and we get called last minute, not everybody's lost. So we know what to do, we know how to mount the equipment, load it, strap it down. So we could just take away the headache of, all right, we've never done this, we've got to train. Instead of, hey, we've already done it before, we're good to go. The Navy provides the landing zone for the Elkacs. The Marines are then directed to where they need to go. Once that is complete, the Elkac returns to the ship to load another vehicle. Reporting from Camp Pendleton, California, I'm Corporal Christopher Moore.