MOTUTAPU ISLAND, Tonga — Cpl. Derek C. Brisendine detonates an explosive charge to clear an obstacle during a live-fire range, July 27, 2016, on Motutapu Island, Tonga, as part of a multi-national, bilateral exercise, between and Tongan forces, designed to increase interoperability and relations. The service members combined and applied skills practiced during the exercise into a culminating range such as demolition, beach insertion, high explosive exploitation and buddy rushing. Brisendine, from Eustis, Florida, is a combat engineer with Task Force Koa Moana and is originally assigned to


MOTUTAPU ISLAND, Tonga — Cpl. Derek C. Brisendine detonates an explosive charge to clear an obstacle during a live-fire range, July 27, 2016, on Motutapu Island, Tonga, as part of a multi-national, bilateral exercise, between and Tongan forces, designed to increase interoperability and relations. The service members combined and applied skills practiced during the exercise into a culminating range such as demolition, beach insertion, high explosive exploitation and buddy rushing. Brisendine, from Eustis, Florida, is a combat engineer with Task Force Koa Moana and is originally assigned to Company B, 9th Engineer Support Battalion, 3rd Marine Logistics Group, III Marine Expeditionary Force. ( Marine Corps photo by Cpl. William Hester/ Released)


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