Army Reserve Spc. Dalan Benson, assigned to the 560th Movement Control Team, Springfield, Missouri, conducts pre-combat checks before a gunnery qualification lane at the Operation Cold Steel exercise at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin, Mar. 18, 2017. Operation Cold Steel is the Army Reserve’s first large-scale live-fire training and 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 joint partners anywhere in the world


Army Reserve Spc. Dalan Benson, assigned to the 560th Movement Control Team, Springfield, Missouri, conducts pre-combat checks before a gunnery qualification lane at the Operation Cold Steel exercise at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin, Mar. 18, 2017. Operation Cold Steel is the Army Reserve’s first large-scale live-fire training and 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 joint partners anywhere in the world. 475 crews with an estimated 1,600 Army Reserve Soldiers will certify in M2, M19 and M240 Bravo gunner platforms. ( Army Reserve photo by Master Sgt. Anthony L. Taylor)


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