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A Marine works on a weapon while laying on the ground in a desert-like area.

Weapon Work

Marine Corps Sgts. Chandler Snow and Casey Bennett use an M240B machine gun during Service Level Training Exercise 4-25 at Marine Corps Air-Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, Calif., July 31, 2025. The exercise was designed to provide a challenging, realistic training environment to produce combat-ready forces capable of operating as an integrated Marine air-ground task force across all domains of military operations.

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