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Marine Lance Cpl. Howard Hoehmann takes aim at a target during machine gun drills aboard the USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19) while underway in the South Pacific on May 21, 2005. Hoehmann is assigned to the 2nd Fleet Anti-terrorism Security Team Company, 3rd Platoon from Naval Weapons Station Yorktown, Va., which is deployed aboard the Seventh Fleet flagship.

Marine Lance Cpl. Howard Hoehmann takes aim at a target during machine gun drills.

Marine Lance Cpl. Howard Hoehmann takes aim at a target during machine gun drills aboard the USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19) while underway in the South Pacific on May 21, 2005. Hoehmann is assigned to the 2nd Fleet Anti-terrorism Security Team Company, 3rd Platoon from Naval Weapons Station Yorktown, Va., which is deployed aboard the Seventh Fleet flagship.

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