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Machine guns fire red tracer rounds at enemy vehicles with an illumination flare overhead during Enhanced Mojave Viper, an exercise on Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, Calif., Sept. 27, 2009.

Machine guns fire red tracer rounds at enemy vehicles with an illumination flare overhead during Enhanced Mojave Viper, an exercise on Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, Calif., Sept. 27, 2009.

Machine guns fire red tracer rounds at enemy vehicles with an illumination flare overhead during Enhanced Mojave Viper, an exercise on Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, Calif., Sept. 27, 2009.

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