The Integrated Training Exercise is a large scale Marine Corps exercise takes place at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms. It allows Marine units from across the United States to practice increasingly complex tactics, techniques and procedures leading up to a scenario-driven final exercise

Marines of 3/5 are currently field testing advanced techniques and technology from the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory during Integrated Training Exercise 1-17 in order to enhance and sustain combined arms proficiency in preparation for their deployment as the Ground Combat Element for the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit.