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Marines from Exercise Support Division, Marine Corps Air Ground Task Force Training Command, Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twenty-nine Palms, Calif., are presented with the Secretary of Defense Small Field-Level Maintenance Unit Award for FY21 by the Honorable Christopher J. Lowman, far left, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Sustainment, during an awards banquet held at the Department of Defense Maintenance Symposium in Orlando, Fla., Dec. 13. - Marines from Exercise Support Division, Marine Corps Air Ground Task Force Training Command, Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twenty-nine Palms, Calif., are presented with the Secretary of Defense Small Field-Level Maintenance Unit Award for FY21 by the Honorable Christopher J. Lowman, far left, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Sustainment, during an awards banquet held at the Department of Defense Maintenance Symposium in Orlando, Fla., Dec. 13. Receiving the award for ESD are Lt. Col. Catalina E. Kesler, second from left, Master Sgt. Mark A. Wolff, center, ordnance maintenance chief, and Kyle E. Garvin, second from right, motor transport maintenance supervisor. Maj. Gen. Keith D. Reventlow, far right, Commanding General, Marine Corps Logistics Command joined the ESD team on stage for the presentation of the award. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Rodney Bearman)

U.S. Marines with 6th Engineer Support Battalion Bulk Fuel Company B, 4th Marine Logistics Group conducting field training with the new Expeditionary Fuel Dispensing System, or EFDS. EFDS is a new program of record that reconfigures capabilities existent in legacy fuel systems, such as the Amphibious Assault Fuel System and the Tactical Airfield Fuel Dispensing System into smaller, more agile expedient capabilities. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Ryan Schmid) - U.S. Marines with 6th Engineer Support Battalion Bulk Fuel Company B, 4th Marine Logistics Group conducting field training with the new Expeditionary Fuel Dispensing System, or EFDS. EFDS is a new program of record that reconfigures capabilities existent in legacy fuel systems, such as the Amphibious Assault Fuel System and the Tactical Airfield Fuel Dispensing System into smaller, more agile expedient capabilities. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Ryan Schmid)

Robert "Chip" Schwartz (left), Production Plant Barstow manager, holds the check with Jonathan James (center), supervisory project director, business support branch, quality management center, Marine Corps Logistics Command, as the check is presented to Robert Hartong (right), optics journeyman, for his contributions during the presentation ceremony held on Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow, California, June 30, 2022. Hartong had developed a piece of glass for the LAV-25 and effectively save the government over $400,000 and was estimated by Schwartz to have saved the Marine Corps over a million dollars, with a prediction of several more millions of dollars saved. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Jack J. Adamyk) - Robert "Chip" Schwartz (left), Production Plant Barstow manager, holds the check with Jonathan James (center), supervisory project director, business support branch, quality management center, Marine Corps Logistics Command, as the check is presented to Robert Hartong (right), optics journeyman, for his contributions during the presentation ceremony held on Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow, California, June 30, 2022. Hartong had developed a piece of glass for the LAV-25 and effectively save the government over $400,000 and was estimated by Schwartz to have saved the Marine Corps over a million dollars, with a prediction of several more millions of dollars saved. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Jack J. Adamyk)