Marine Leaders of The Americas Conference (MLAC) 2025

Sgt. Xavier W. Wethington, native of Brunswick, Ga., and air-traffic control specialist with Marine Air Control Squadron 2, simulates a casualty with a sucking chest wound during a casualty assessment test of the Combat Life Saver training aboard the USS Iwo Jima, Sept. 24, 2010. Marines with MACS-2, Command Element of Special-Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Continuing Promise 2010 participated in the five-day training while operating off the coast of Bluefields, Nicaragua, during their four-month deployment to the Caribbean, Central and South America.