Marine Forces Reserve organizes, mans, equips, trains, and sustains more than 40,000 Drilling Reserve Marines and some 60,000 Individual Ready Reserve Marines to support Theater Security Cooperation Exercises and Overseas Contingency Operation requirements.
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NEW ORLEANS (August 28, 2013) - Lt. Gen. Richard P. Mills is formally welcomed aboard as Commander, Marine Forces Reserve and Marine Forces North.at the Marine Corps Support Facility here today. For more information, please see: http://buff.ly/1dR3HyS
Marine Forces Reserve's new 411,320 square-foot home on the west bank of the Mississippi River was officially dedicated during a ribbon cutting ceremony here June 27.
State and local officials were on hand to commemorate the event.
The new compound, dubbed as the Corps' first Marine Corps Support Facility, will house the headquarters of Marine Forces Reserve and Marine Forces North.
Lt. Gen. Steven A. Hummer, a 40-year veteran of the Marine Corps, has assumed command of Marine Forces Reserve and Marine Forces North here during a ceremony aboard Marine Corps Support Facility New Orleans.
Hummer, who enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1970, is the first commanding general to lead Marines at the two commands since the move from the former Bywater offices in New Orleans to its new Algiers location here.