Major John Gianopoulos, right, future operations officer with 1st Marine Expeditionary Brigade, explains the MEB’s future operations to Gen. John M. Paxton, assistant commandant of the United States Marine Corps, during a visit to Large Scale Exercise 2014 aboard Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, Calif., Aug. 11, 2014. LSE-14 is a bilateral training exercise being conducted by 1st MEB to build U.S. and Canadian forces’ joint capabilities through live, simulated, and constructive military training activities.