What does r4og stand for

As the U. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Marine Corps Lance Cpls. The Marines of R4OG are charged with receiving, organizing, cleaning and redistributing the large amounts of weapons, equipment and vehicles to other Marine Corps units stateside and abroad.

Pallets of cargo boxes and equipment are staged before being loaded onto transport trucks by U. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Jayme Copeland, an embarkation specialist from Colorado Springs, Colo. Marine Corps Pfc. Eric Smith, a warehouse clerk from Fulton, N. Alexander E. Wang, a motor transportation operator from Brooklyn, N. Nathan Bidwell, a heavy equipment operator from Marshall, Mich.

Marine Cpl. Christopher Mclaughlin, a military policeman and designated customs agent from Temple, Texas, assigned to Retrograde and Redeployment in support of Reset and Reconstitution Operational Group R4OG , annotates the contents of cargo boxes on Camp Leatherneck, Helmand province, Afghanistan, March 14, Grant Lee, an embarkation specialist from Purvis, Miss. Grant Lee, right, an embarkation specialist from Purvis, Miss.

Marine Corps Cpl. Jonathan Daisley, a military policeman and designated customs agent from Denver, Colo. Marines with 1st Marine Logistics Group applaud after Brig.

Vincent A. Coglianese, commanding general, 1st MLG, delivered a speech during a ceremony held in honor of the unit's anniversary aboard Camp Pendleton, Calif. The Marines need that gear to redistribute around the Corps, particularly as more Marines are moved to the Pacific, Amos said.

There are now four infantry battalions on the ground in Okinawa, and nearly 22, Marines west of Honolulu, compared to roughly 16, a year ago, he said. And in about a month, the Corps will put about 1, infantry, logistics and aviation Marines on the ground in Darwin, Australia, Amos said — and all those Marines need equipment.

Central Command, which oversees operations in the region, estimates that across Afghanistan, the U. The members of R4OG come from 95 units and comprise a diverse group of military occupational specialties, Flynn said, and many arrived in the last two months.

The challenge they have now is backward planning so that they are able to retrieve, clean, repair and redeploy all the gear they can — and then redeploy themselves. Now, the Marines take a more organized approach: logging and fixing the gear, certifying it for transport, and working with Marine Corps Central Command to determine which units need which equipment.

Flynn said the process also differs from the retrograde from Iraq, which took place over the course of a year.