A Marine with Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, loads rounds into an M240 Bravo medium machine gun during a machine gun shoot aboard Camp Lejeune, , April 27, 2015. “Right now we just got a drop of new Marines,” said 1st Lt. Joseph Jansen, the Weapons Platoon commander with the unit. “We’re trying to figure out who’s going to fall in with which billets. So we’ll do our evaluation; the basic qualification tables for day and night. This is to also ensure that everybody is capable on their weapon system. So when we go over to teach these foreign countries, we’re capable of gi
A Marine with Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, loads rounds into an M240 Bravo medium machine gun during a machine gun shoot aboard Camp Lejeune, , April 27, 2015. “Right now we just got a drop of new Marines,” said 1st Lt. Joseph Jansen, the Weapons Platoon commander with the unit. “We’re trying to figure out who’s going to fall in with which billets. So we’ll do our evaluation; the basic qualification tables for day and night. This is to also ensure that everybody is capable on their weapon system. So when we go over to teach these foreign countries, we’re capable of giving instructions for that cross integration for whatever weapons systems they have to offer.”( Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Justin T. Updegraff/ Released) Letting bullets fly, 1-8 conducts medium and light machine-gun range 150427-M-TV331-073
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