Cpl. Anthony Wilks fires rounds down range with a M240 machine gun throughout a simulated assault during Blue Chromite 2017 in Okinawa, Japan, November 3, 2016. Blue Chromite is a 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, is a machine gunner 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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