Army Reserve Sgt. Phillip McCaffrey, 238th Transportation Company (Improved Cargo Handling Operations), 79th Sustainment Support Command, waits in the rain for his turn to complete qualification live-fire during Operation Cold Steel at Fort McCoy, Wis., April 3, 2017. Operation Cold Steel is the Army Reserve's crew-served weapons qualification and validation exercise to ensure that America's Army Reserve units and Soldiers are trained and ready to deploy on short-notice and bring combat-ready and lethal firepower in support of the Army and our joint partners anywhere in the world.

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