Capt. Matthew McCoy, commander of Company A, 1st Battalion, 179th Infantry Regiment, 45th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, and a resident of Oklahoma City, waits for the order to fire while on a PKM machine gun range during instructor standardization training at the International Peacekeeping and Security Center, near Yavoriv, Ukraine, on Jan. 19. McCoy's company was one of two from 1st Bn. 179th Inf. Regt. to go through the training on Jan. 19, before partnering with and mentoring Ukrainian army combat training center staff.

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