In a sign of more to come, the Corps certified forward-deployed Marines on FPV drones for the first time

In a sign of more to come, the Corps certified forward-deployed Marines on FPV drones for the first time

It was nearing midnight just two days before Thanksgiving when a small Marine Corps drone buzzed to life, obscuring the sound of insects chirping away at the Puerto Rican military facility known as Camp Santiago. Then there was an explosion, briefly illuminating the drone’s target — a container — and the flora surrounding it in an otherwise dark night, according to a Marine Corps video of the exercise. A voice then cracked over the radio: the ta…