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Navy Airman Recruit Breanne Portillo, an aviation ordnanceman, shoots a .50-caliber machine gun on the port gallery decks aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard under way in the Phillippine Sea, July 1, 2013.

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Navy Airman Recruit Breanne Portillo, an aviation ordnanceman, shoots a .50-caliber machine gun on the port gallery decks aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard under way in the Phillippine Sea, July 1, 2013.

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