Able Diver Temana Tohiariki, with the New Zealand navy Operational Dive Team, ensures all his dive gear is working before a mine countermeasure exercise during Dawn Blitz 2013 at Camp Pendleton, June 12. The ODT specialize in Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD), Improvised Explosive Devise Disposal (IEDD), and demolition personnel. Dawn Blitz 2013 is an amphibious exercise testing and coalition forces in skills expected of a Navy and Marine Corps amphibious task force. Forces will conduct amphibious assaults, live-fire opportunities, mine operations, Maritime Propositioning of Force (MPF) t

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Able Diver Temana Tohiariki, with the New Zealand navy Operational Dive Team, ensures all his dive gear is working before a mine countermeasure exercise during Dawn Blitz 2013 at Camp Pendleton, June 12. The ODT specialize in Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD), Improvised Explosive Devise Disposal (IEDD), and demolition personnel. Dawn Blitz 2013 is an amphibious exercise testing and coalition forces in skills expected of a Navy and Marine Corps amphibious task force. Forces will conduct amphibious assaults, live-fire opportunities, mine operations, Maritime Propositioning of Force (MPF) training and sea-basing operations. New Zealand divers conduct mine countermeasure exercise 130612-M-BZ222-003

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