A gas mask sits soaked from winter downpours after being used as part of the prequalification exercise during Operation Cold Steel III at Fort Hunter Liggett, Calif., Feb. 14, 2019. Operation Cold Steel III trains and qualifies Army Reserve Soldiers on M2 .50 caliber machine guns, M19 40 mm automatic grenade launchers and M240 mm machine guns weapons systems in ground and mounted military vehicles, in order to provide lethal and combat ready units ready to deploy anywhere in the world.

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