Army Reserve Soldiers practice assembling the mount for the M240B machine gun while conducting preliminary marksmanship instruction during Operation Cold Steel at Fort McCoy, Wis., March 12, 2017. Operation Cold Steel is the Army Reserve's crew-served weapons qualification and validation exercise to ensure that America's Army Reserve units and soldiers are trained and ready to deploy on short-notice and bring combat-ready and lethal firepower in support of the Army and our joint partners anywhere in the world.

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