Sgt. Tyler Felts, an LAV crewman, sights in on a target during a live-fire gunnery qualification test with an M240B machine gun at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, Jan. 22, 2016. Live-fire tests like these allow the Marines of 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force to train for how they will execute their mission when they are deployed in a combat zone. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Pvt. Robert Bliss) - Sgt. Tyler Felts, an LAV crewman, sights in on a target during a live-fire gunnery qualification test with an M240B machine gun at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, Jan. 22, 2016. Live-fire tests like these allow the Marines of 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force to train for how they will execute their mission when they are deployed in a combat zone. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Pvt. Robert Bliss)
Marines with Weapons Platoon, Company B, 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, patrol toward the village of Shabu, Afghanistan Sept. 15. Twice a day the Marines patrol several miles to get to Shabu to maintain village security. - Marines with Weapons Platoon, Company B, 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, patrol toward the village of Shabu, Afghanistan Sept. 15. Twice a day the Marines patrol several miles to get to Shabu to maintain village security.
Lance Corporal Garrett Elting, a mortarman with Weapons Platoon, Company B, 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, looks for a visible vein on Lance Cpl. Daniel Exner, a mortarman with Weapons Plt., Co. B, 1st LAR Bn., during a combat lifesaving class at Combat Outpost Shabu, Sept. 17. “It’s very important for us to know how to apply the IV’s because this is a dangerous place and you never know when you might need the training,” said Elting, a Lincoln, Neb., native. - Lance Corporal Garrett Elting, a mortarman with Weapons Platoon, Company B, 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, looks for a visible vein on Lance Cpl. Daniel Exner, a mortarman with Weapons Plt., Co. B, 1st LAR Bn., during a combat lifesaving class at Combat Outpost Shabu, Sept. 17. “It’s very important for us to know how to apply the IV’s because this is a dangerous place and you never know when you might need the training,” said Elting, a Lincoln, Neb., native.