Greg Timberlake, forward commander of the III Marine Expeditionary Force at Camp Sendai in northern Japan, said.
Those caught in the blast at 22:00 local time (05:00 GMT on Tuesday) were members of the Second Marine Expeditionary Force.
The highlight is iconic Morro do Pico a thin, 1, 023-foot-high peak that surely wowed the Portuguese expeditionary force that discovered it in 1503.
Petraeus said one Marine expeditionary force would be coming home in September, and an Army brigade is slated to return in mid-December.
In World War I, none of the thousands of planes built for the American Expeditionary Force actually made it to the front before the conflict ended.
Both joined the Marines in June 2010 and were deployed to Afghanistan in 2011, a spokesman for the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force said in a written statement.
John Sattler, commanding general of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force.
The explosion occurred Monday night at the Hawthorne Army Depot, a facility used by troops heading overseas, during an exercise involving the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force from Camp Lejeune, N.
In his speech Sir David talked about the creation of a new UK joint expeditionary force which could, in future, be used in support of governments in the region and elsewhere.
Iraqi and U.S. troops from the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force exchanged gunfire for more than one hour before capturing a number of paramilitaries and seizing weapons and explosives, U.S. Central Command said.
Both young men were among seven members of the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force killed late Monday when a mortar shell exploded in its firing tube during an exercise at Hawthorne Army Depot in Nevada.
In order for the Marine Corps to remain the Nation's preeminent expeditionary force, it needs to be versatile, fast-moving, and hard-hitting so it can avoid large, set-piece battles through prompt and vigorous action during the conflict?s incipient stages.
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The other treaty will allow the setting up of a "combined joint expeditionary force", thought to involve a brigade of about 5, 000 soldiers from each side, which will operate under one military commander to be chosen at the time.
Such efforts could, if unchecked, lead to the reduction of funding by a half billion dollars during FY06 that the Army itself describes as critical for the development of FCS to test it at Joint Expeditionary Force Experiment 2006.
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TIKRIT, Iraq (CNN) -- U.S. Marines rescued seven American soldiers held by Iraqis north of Baghdad on Sunday before rushing off to join in the battle for Tikrit, according to a Canadian reporter embedded with the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force.
Lavish costumes are on display in the Dormitory of the Expeditionary Force, important Islamic relics are housed in the Sacred Safekeeping Rooms and fine examples of Ottoman calligraphy and portraiture are exhibited in the Quarters of Pages in Charge of the Sacred Safekeeping Rooms.
The U.S. Army deployed more than four divisions, the Marine Corps contributed a Marine Expeditionary Force (MEF) that was the equivalent of two divisions, and the British Army deployed the equivalent of another heavy armored division for a total of more than seven divisions.
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"Much of the acrimony expressed by Secretary Rumsfeld's military critics appears to stem from his efforts to 'transform' the military by moving to a joint expeditionary force that is lighter and more mobile in nature to meet the nation's current and future threats, " the article said.
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Already, the defense secretary has signaled that he is inclined to cancel the Marines' top ground force modernization program - the Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle (EFV).
I'm the Operations Superintendent, the 807th Expeditionary Air Support Operations Squadron and the world's greatest Air Force. (Applause.) I want to say congratulations on tonight.
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This force would also require support from civilian air and sealift to sustain two large expeditionary forces.
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