Maj. Gen. Lawrence D. Nicholson, the commanding general of 1st Marine Division, listens to a convoy brief before conducting a battlefield circulation during Desert Scimitar 2014 aboard Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, Calif., May 13, 2014. Exercises like Desert Scimitar leave 1st Marine Division poised to respond to different crises around the world by testing and refining the division's capabilities to act as the headquarters element of a Marine Expeditionary Force. (U.S. Marine Corps photograph by Cpl. Robert J. Reeves/RELEASED)