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note these Marines are using M16A4's not SDM-R's although they could almost be them as both use the Same ACOG's and and Almost Identical builds Save the SDM-Rs have a Bipod
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Marines and sailors of Company K, 3rd Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment, gather their gear before loading a CH-46 Sea Knight that will bring the unit from the Combat Center's Battalion Team East training area to Combat Center Range 220, Aug. 11.
(Photo by Cpl. Nicole Lavine : Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms)
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A CH-46 Sea Knight with Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 364 out of Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., takes off after picking up Marines and sailors of Company K, 3rd Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment, enroute to the Combat Center's Battalion Team East training area to Combat Center Range 220, Aug. 11. The new Enhanced Mojave Viper allows aviation and ground units to have better intergration to prepare them for operations in theater.
(Photo by Cpl. Nicole Lavine : Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms)
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Capt. Richard Sharp, a British Royal Marine with the British Operations Training Advisory Group, lays out a plan of entry to a village with Sgt. Chris Young, an infantry assaultman and vehicle commander with Weapons Company, 3rd Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment, at Combat Center Range 215, Aug. 11.
(Photo by Cpl. Nicole Lavine : Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms)
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Color Sgt. Kevin McCauley, a soldier with the British Operations Training Advisory Group, discusses angles of fire and cover with Sgt. Aaron Missey, a mortarman with Weapons Company, 3rd Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment, while training at Combat Center Range 215, Aug. 11.
(Photo by Cpl. Nicole Lavine : Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms)
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Color Sgt. Kevin McCauley, a soldier with the British Operations Training Advisory Group, gives advice to Marines with 3rd Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment, about taking cover behind cement barricades during training at Combat Center Range 215, Aug. 11
(Photo by Cpl. Nicole Lavine : Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms)
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Tech. Sgt. Joel McPherson, a native of Knoxville, Tenn., scans the Korengal valley's steep hills for insurgents in Afghanistan's Kunar province, Aug. 13. Moments later, McPherson and fellow members of Company B, 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, were attacked. The 20-minute gun battle ended with 500 pound bombs, dropped by U.S. Air Force F-15 Fighter Jets, destroying insurgent positions in the surrounding hills, no civilians were injured. International Security Assistance Forces across Afghanistan have increased operations in recent months, in order to ensure safety and security during Afghanistan's second national election, scheduled for the end of August.
(Photo by Sgt. Matthew Moeller : 5th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment)
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Marines with Company E, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, conduct a controlled detonation on the Herati wall, Aug. 15. Insurgents have used the compound for cover and concealment during several firefights with Marines over the past month.
(Photo by 1st Lt. Kurt Stahl : Regimental Combat Team 3)
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Marines with Company E, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, work together to knock down the Herati wall, Aug. 15. Insurgents have used the compound for cover and concealment during several firefights with Marines over the past month.
(Photo by 1st Lt. Kurt Stahl : Regimental Combat Team 3)
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Marines with Company E, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, work together to knock down the Herati wall, Aug. 15. Insurgents have used the compound for cover and concealment during several firefights with Marines over the past month.
(Photo by 1st Lt. Kurt Stahl : Regimental Combat Team 3)
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Marines with Company E, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, work together to knock down the Herati wall, Aug. 15. Insurgents have used the compound for cover and concealment during several firefights with Marines over the past month.
(Photo by 1st Lt. Kurt Stahl : Regimental Combat Team 3)
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Cpl. A.J. Manglona, a machine gunner with Company E, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, fires his M240G medium machine gun at Taliban insurgents after drawing fire, Aug. 15.
(Photo by 1st Lt. Kurt Stahl : Regimental Combat Team 3)
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Cpl. A.J. Manglona, a machine gunner with Company E, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, fires his M240G medium machine gun at Taliban insurgents after drawing fire, Aug. 15.
(Photo by 1st Lt. Kurt Stahl : Regimental Combat Team 3)
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Second Lt. Pat Bragan, 3rd platoon commander with Company E, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, and his Marines prepare to attack Taliban insurgents after drawing fire, Aug. 15. Bragan is from Abington, Mass.
(Photo by 1st Lt. Kurt Stahl : Regimental Combat Team 3)
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"We look out for anything suspicious or out of the ordinary...if there is something suspicious, we call it up to the sergeant of the guard," said Spc. Robert Pingree, an infantryman from Denmark, Maine, assigned to Company D, 1st Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, as he mans a guard tower at Joint Security Station Cleary, in southeastern Baghdad, Aug. 17.
(Photo by Staff Sgt. Mark Burrell : Multi-National Division Baghdad)
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"We just talk a lot up here. There's not a whole lot you can do to pass the time," said Denmark, Maine, native, Spc. Robert Pingree, an infantryman assigned to Company D, 1st Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, while standing guard in a tower on Joint Security Station Cleary, Aug. 17. Pingree, who's been in the Army for about two years, added, "I joined because I wanted to go to war for my country."
(Photo by Staff Sgt. Mark Burrell : Multi-National Division Baghdad)
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Spc. Joshua MacQuarrie, an infantryman from Copperas Cove, Texas, assigned to Company D, 1st Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, stares out at the horizon as the sun sets during guard tower duty at Joint Security Station Cleary, Aug. 17. MacQuarrie, who's been in the Army almost two and a half years, is on his first deployment to Iraq.
(Photo by Staff Sgt. Mark Burrell : Multi-National Division Baghdad)
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The suns sets on another day in southeastern Baghdad as Spc. Joshua MacQuarrie, an infantryman from Copperas Cove, Texas, assigned to Company D, 1st Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, scans the horizon for enemy activity from a guard tower at Joint Security Station Cleary, Aug. 17.
(Photo by Staff Sgt. Mark Burrell : Multi-National Division Baghdad)
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"I'm infantry and a little bit of everything - guard tower or whatever needs to be done," said Spc. Joshua MacQuarrie, a Copperas Cove, Texas, native and infantryman assigned to Company D, 1st Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, as he looks through the sights of his M240 machine gun during guard duties at Joint Security Station Cleary, in southeastern Baghdad, Aug. 17.
(Photo by Staff Sgt. Mark Burrell : Multi-National Division Baghdad)