Launching a high-explosive mortar round, Lance Cpl. Douglas M. Bowker, 20, an assistant gunner from Brooklyn, N.Y., with Charlie Company, 2nd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, Regimental Combat Team 5, ensures proper standard operating procedures are in order during a shoot in western al-Anbar province, Iraq, Sept. 14. During the shoot, weapons platoons from each company within the battalion took turns firing more than 30 high-explosive and illumination rounds from mounted and dismounted positions. ::r::::n::
080914-M-6065T-002.jpg Photo By: Cpl. Ryan Tomlinson

Sep 14, 2008
Launching a high-explosive mortar round, Lance Cpl. Douglas M. Bowker, 20, an assistant gunner from Brooklyn, N.Y., with Charlie Company, 2nd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, Regimental Combat Team 5, ensures proper standard operating procedures are in order during a shoot in western al-Anbar province, Iraq, Sept. 14. During the shoot, weapons platoons from each company within the battalion took turns firing more than 30 high-explosive and illumination rounds from mounted and dismounted positions. ::r::::n::


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