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U.S. Marine Cpl. Brandon M. Stein, light armored vehicle commander with Charlie Company, 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, grips the Light Armored Vehicle’s pintle-mounted M240G machine gun as he waits to fire his loaded blanks during military operations in an urban terrain town at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center’s Range in Twenty Nine Palms, Calif., Oct. 28, 2005.

Urban Fight

U.S. Marine Cpl. Brandon M. Stein, light armored vehicle commander with Charlie Company, 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, grips the Light Armored Vehicle’s pintle-mounted M240G machine gun as he waits to fire his loaded blanks during military operations in an urban terrain town at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center’s Range in Twenty Nine Palms, Calif., Oct. 28, 2005.

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