7th Fleet Marines anti-terrorism team stays sharp with realistic training in South Korea

WARRIOR BASE, South Korea — Marines from an anti-terrorism force stationed at Yokosuka Naval Base, Japan, are honing their skills on live-fire ranges just minutes from the Demilitarized Zone in South Korea.

Over 40 Marines from the Fleet Anti-terrorism Security Team-Pacific, or FASTPAC, are living for two weeks at Warrior Base near the DMZ, the sometimes-tense border between North Korea and South Korea. The practice ranges include training areas that simulate the real-life settings in which the Marines may be called upon to ply their trade.

“The training is environmental,” said Cpl. Justin Rohn, a squad leader, on Tuesday. “Certain areas that we get stationed at just don’t have the resources available to us like Korea. Using the training facilities here gets us familiar with the environments we might end up in.”

The Marines began the first of three days’ training Nov. 25 at the New Mexico Range, part of the Story Live Fire Training Complex just a few minutes’ drive from the DMZ. The range has a live-fire shoot-house, a building in which the Marines, using live ammunition, practiced room-clearing procedures.

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