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Marines provide cover fire for their convoy using an M240B machine gun during a Motorized Fire and Movement Exercise at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, Calif., July 23, 2017. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Kassie L. McDole

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Marines provide cover fire for their convoy using an M240B machine gun during a Motorized Fire and Movement Exercise at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, Calif., July 23, 2017. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Kassie L. McDole

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