U.S. Department of Defense

Chairman Visits Camp Pendleton, Calif.

U.S. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, speaks with Marine Maj. Gen. Michael R. Lehnert, commanding general, Marine Corps Installations West, Marine Sgt. Maj. Mario Carreno, senior enlisted advisor, Wounded Warrior Battalion West , and Marine Lt. Col. Charles Johnson III, commanding officer, Wounded Warrior Battalion West on Camp Pendleton, Calif., Feb. 19, 2008. Mullen and his wife Deborah visited with wounded Marines and were briefed on a new close quarters battle simulator.

U.S. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, speaks with U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Giovanni Morales, a resident of the Wounded Warrior Battalion West on Camp Pendleton, Calif., Feb. 19, 2008.

U.S. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, speaks with Marines at Camp Pendleton, Calif., Feb. 19, 2008.

U.S. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, right, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, speaks with Marines on Camp Pendleton, Calif., Feb. 19, 2008. Mullen and his wife Deborah, left, visited Marines assigned to the base and were briefed on a new close quarters battle simulator.

U.S. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and his wife, Deborah, walk through the new Infantry Immersion Trainer on Camp Pendleton, Calif., Feb. 19, 2008. The close quarters battle simulator is designed to give Marines the most realistic training possible by incorporating live actors, pyrotechnics, sight, sound and smell to teach tactics and battlefield ethics.

U.S. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, tours the new Infantry Immersion Trainer on Camp Pendleton, Calif., Feb. 19, 2008.

U.S. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, speaks with Marine Maj. Gen. Michael R. Lehnert, commanding general, Marine Corps Installations West, Marine Sgt. Maj. Mario Carreno, senior enlisted advisor, Wounded Warrior Battalion West , and Marine Lt. Col. Charles Johnson III, commanding officer, Wounded Warrior Battalion West on Camp Pendleton, Calif., Feb. 19, 2008. Mullen and his wife Deborah visited with wounded Marines and were briefed on a new close quarters battle simulator.
Defense Dept. photo by U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Chad J. McNeeley