Lance Cpl. Nathaniel Yenney changes a hot barrel on a M240 machine gun for his gunner Cpl. Anthony Wilks during Blue Chromite 2017 in Okinawa, Japan, November 3, 2016. Blue Chromite is a –only exercise which strengthens the Navy-Marine Corps expeditionary, amphibious rapid-response capabilities based in Okinawa and the greater Indo-Asia-Pacific region. Wilks from Alliance, Ohio and Yenney from Pasadena, California are machine gunners assigned to 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment which is forward deployed from Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, to 3rd Marine Division, based in Okinawa, Japan.

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