Marines with Sierra Battery, 5th Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment upload coordinates onto a M982 Excalibur before being firing it from a M777A2 Howitzer during Exercise DESERT SCIMITAR 2014 aboard Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, Calif., May 18, 2014. DESERT SCIMITAR 2014 was a 1st Marine Division exercise held to test and refine its command and control capabilities by acting as the headquarters element for a forward deployed Marine Expeditionary Force simultaneously offering units the opportunity to hone their conventional war fighting skills. ( Marine Corps pho
Marines with Sierra Battery, 5th Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment upload coordinates onto a M982 Excalibur before being firing it from a M777A2 Howitzer during Exercise DESERT SCIMITAR 2014 aboard Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, Calif., May 18, 2014. DESERT SCIMITAR 2014 was a 1st Marine Division exercise held to test and refine its command and control capabilities by acting as the headquarters element for a forward deployed Marine Expeditionary Force simultaneously offering units the opportunity to hone their conventional war fighting skills. ( Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Ismael E. Ortega/Released) DESERT SCIMITAR 140518-M-RD023-031
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