Mortars Platoon, Golf Battery, Battalion Landing Team, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines, fired several hundred shells during Talisman Saber 17, refining their day and night targeting capabilities as part of a Combined Joint Live Fire Exercise with and Australian Defence Forces. In these photos, 120 mm gun crews complete a night fire mission on Townshend Island, Shoalwater Bay Training Area, Queensland, Australia, July 16, 2017. Talisman Saber is a biennial exercise designed to improve the interoperability between Australian and forces.

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