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Sergeant Thomas Reed, a training noncommissioned officer serving with Truck Company Alpha, Headquarters Battalion, 1st Marine Division, inspects and cleans a MK93 Heavy Machine Gun Mounting System during the Basic Mk-19 Heavy Machine Gun Course here, June 11, 2013. Throughout the course, support Marines were instructed by experienced machine gunners who are combat veterans. The course tested Marines on the weapon nomenclature, weapon conditions, the weapon's range, different types of ammunition and range cards. Reed, a native of Wooster, Ohio, was sent to the course to prepare himself and his junior Marines for an upcoming combat deployment to Afghanistan.

Photo by Cpl. Joseph Scanlan

Corporal Bradley Cash, an antitank missileman serving with Delta Company, 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, reloads his M107 Special Application Scoped Rifle during a SASR training course here, July 10, 2013. This is the first time Cash, a native of Lacrosse, Wis., has fired a .50 caliber sniper rifle. Upon completion of the course, he will be able to help train his fellow Marines on the employment of the rifle.

Photo by Lance Cpl. Christopher J. Moore

Sergeant Thomas Reed, a training noncommissioned officer serving with Truck Company Alpha, Headquarters Battalion, 1st Marine Division, carries a Mk-19 grenade launcher to a classroom during the Basic Mk-19 Heavy Machine Gun Course here, June 11, 2013. Throughout the course, support Marines were instructed by experienced machine gunners who are combat veterans. The course tested Marines on the weapon nomenclature, weapon conditions, the weapon's range, different types of ammunition and range cards. Reed, a native of Wooster, Ohio, was sent to the course to prepare himself and his junior Marines for an upcoming combat deployment to Afghanistan.

Photo by Cpl. Joseph Scanlan

From left to right, Cpl. Mark Bradley, Sgt. Michael Henderson, Sgt. Jay Hewlett and Cpl. Alex Louser, all serving with 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, practice using the scope on the M107 Special Application Scoped Rifle during a weeklong SASR training course here, July 9, 2013. Upon completion of the course, they will train their fellow Marines on the employment of the rifle.

Photo by Lance Cpl. Christopher J. Moore

$Gunnery Sgt. Gabriel Guest (right), the chief instructor of the Advanced Machine Gunners Course at Advanced Infantry Training Battalion, School of Infantry - West, patrols back to Forward Operating Base Gray after a firefight in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, in April 2008. Five months into his deployment, Guest, a native of Spokane, Wash., was on a patrol when his vehicle struck an improvised explosive device, ejecting him from his vehicle and causing three different compound fractures in his left leg. After years of physical therapy and more than 25 surgeries, Guest was able to jog again but only for short moments. He exercised to improve his condition when his leg became repeatedly infected and he was left with only three options: fuse his leg straight allowing no bending in the knee, perform a total knee replacement with risk of future infections, or amputation of the leg. More than four years after being struck by an IED, Guest had his leg amputated. Guest now continues his Marine Corps career through the Expanded Permanent Limited Duty program, which allows Marines who incurred significant combat injuries that would normally restrict them from continuing their Marine Corps service to continue their careers by mentoring Marines through their leadership skills complemented by combat experience.$

Gunnery Sgt. Gabriel Guest (right), the chief instructor of the Advanced Machine Gunners Course at Advanced Infantry Training Battalion, School of Infantry - West, patrols back to Forward Operating Base Gray after a firefight in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, in April 2008. Five months into his deployment, Guest, a native of Spokane, Wash., was on a patrol when his vehicle struck an improvised explosive device, ejecting him from his vehicle and causing three different compound fractures in his left leg. After years of physical therapy and more than 25 surgeries, Guest was able to jog again but only for short moments. He exercised to improve his condition when his leg became repeatedly infected and he was left with only three options: fuse his leg straight allowing no bending in the knee, perform a total knee replacement with risk of future infections, or amputation of the leg. More than four years after being struck by an IED, Guest had his leg amputated. Guest now continues his Marine Corps career through the Expanded Permanent Limited Duty program, which allows Marines who incurred significant combat injuries that would normally restrict them from continuing their Marine Corps service to continue their careers by mentoring Marines through their leadership skills complemented by combat experience.

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$Gunnery Sgt. Gabriel Guest, a native of Spokane, Wash., continues to mentor and lead Marines as the chief instructor at the Advanced Machine Gunners course at Advanced Infantry Training Battalion, School of Infantry - West, after having his left leg amputated Oct. 10, 2012. Guest was on a patrol during combat operations in Afghanistan in 2008 when his vehicle struck an improvised explosive device, ejecting him from the humvee and causing three different compound fractures in his left leg. After years of physical therapy and more than 25 surgeries, Guest was able to jog again but only for short moments. He exercised to improve his condition when his leg became repeatedly infected and he was left with only three options: fuse his leg straight allowing no bending in the knee, perform a total knee replacement with risk of future infections, or amputation of the leg. More than four years after being struck by an IED, Guest had his leg amputated. Guest now continues his Marine Corps career through the Expanded Permanent Limited Duty program, which allows Marines who incurred significant combat injuries that would normally restrict them from continuing their Marine Corps service to continue their careers by mentoring Marines through their leadership skills complemented by combat experience.$

Gunnery Sgt. Gabriel Guest, a native of Spokane, Wash., continues to mentor and lead Marines as the chief instructor at the Advanced Machine Gunners course at Advanced Infantry Training Battalion, School of Infantry - West, after having his left leg amputated Oct. 10, 2012. Guest was on a patrol during combat operations in Afghanistan in 2008 when his vehicle struck an improvised explosive device, ejecting him from the humvee and causing three different compound fractures in his left leg. After years of physical therapy and more than 25 surgeries, Guest was able to jog again but only for short moments. He exercised to improve his condition when his leg became repeatedly infected and he was left with only three options: fuse his leg straight allowing no bending in the knee, perform a total knee replacement with risk of future infections, or amputation of the leg. More than four years after being struck by an IED, Guest had his leg amputated. Guest now continues his Marine Corps career through the Expanded Permanent Limited Duty program, which allows Marines who incurred significant combat injuries that would normally restrict them from continuing their Marine Corps service to continue their careers by mentoring Marines through their leadership skills complemented by combat experience.

Photo by Cpl. Joseph Scanlan

$Gunnery Sgt. Gabriel Guest (right), the chief instructor of the Advanced Machine Gunners Course at Advanced Infantry Training Battalion, School of Infantry - West, patrols back to Forward Operating Base Gray after a firefight in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, in April 2008. Five months into his deployment, Guest, a native of Spokane, Wash., was on a patrol when his vehicle struck an improvised explosive device, ejecting him from his vehicle and causing three different compound fractures in his left leg. After years of physical therapy and more than 25 surgeries, Guest was able to jog again but only for short moments. He exercised to improve his condition when his leg became repeatedly infected and he was left with only three options: fuse his leg straight allowing no bending in the knee, perform a total knee replacement with risk of future infections, or amputation of the leg. More than four years after being struck by an IED, Guest had his leg amputated. Guest now continues his Marine Corps career through the Expanded Permanent Limited Duty program, which allows Marines who incurred significant combat injuries that would normally restrict them from continuing their Marine Corps service to continue their careers by mentoring Marines through their leadership skills complemented by combat experience.$