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Cpl. Jason Brown cleans his M-203 40 mm grenade launcher on May 25, 2001, before a battalion live fire exercise at Shoalwater Bay Training Area, Queensland, Australia, for Exercise Tandem Thrust 2001. Brown, from L Company, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marines, is deployed for Tandem Thrust, which is a combined military training exercise involving more than 18,000 U.S., Australian, and Canadian personnel who are training in crisis action planning and execution of contingency response operations.

Cpl. Jason Brown cleans his M-203 40 mm grenade launcher before a battalion live fire exercise.

Cpl. Jason Brown cleans his M-203 40 mm grenade launcher on May 25, 2001, before a battalion live fire exercise at Shoalwater Bay Training Area, Queensland, Australia, for Exercise Tandem Thrust 2001. Brown, from L Company, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marines, is deployed for Tandem Thrust, which is a combined military training exercise involving more than 18,000 U.S., Australian, and Canadian personnel who are training in crisis action planning and execution of contingency response operations.

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