Smoke curls off the end of a barrel after a Soldier from the 833rd Engineer Company, Iowa National Guard, successfully fired a .50-caliber machine gun during Western Strike 22, June 5, 2022, at Orchard Combat Training Center, Idaho. Western Strike 22 is an eXportable Combat Training Capabilities exercise led by the Utah National Guard’s 65th Field Artillery Brigade, that provides National Guard Soldiers immersed training similar to a Combat Training Center and aims to increase participating unit's readiness and lethality.

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Keywords: 65thfab, 883rdeng, iang, utahnationalguard, westernstrike22, xctc2206