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A sailor holds onto a machine gun as two others watch.

Reload Ready

Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Holly Wilkinson instructs Petty Officer 3rd Class Kennedy Lunavasquez on loading ammunition in a .50-caliber machine gun during a live-fire exercise aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln in the Philippine Sea, April 28, 2022.

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