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Sgt. Sebastien Auguste, an instructor for the Advanced Infantry Course at the School of Infantry-East, tests the M3E1 Multi-purpose Anti-armor Anti-personnel Weapon System to engage targets during a live-fire training on Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, May 6, 2021. In May, Marine Corps Systems Command began fielding the MAAWS, a recoilless rocket system designed to destroy armored vehicles, structures and fortifications. - Sgt. Sebastien Auguste, an instructor for the Advanced Infantry Course at the School of Infantry-East, tests the M3E1 Multi-purpose Anti-armor Anti-personnel Weapon System to engage targets during a live-fire training on Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, May 6, 2021. In May, Marine Corps Systems Command began fielding the MAAWS, a recoilless rocket system designed to destroy armored vehicles, structures and fortifications.

A Marine with 2nd Combat Engineer Battalion shoots the M2 .50-caliber heavy machine gun at targets placed at unknown distances at range SR-7 aboard Camp Lejeune, N.C., April 7, 2015. Approximately 30 Marines from the battalion conducted a two-day, machine-gun range in which they shot the M249 Squad Automatic Weapon, M240 Bravo medium machine gun, and the .50-caliber heavy machine gun from both the mounted and un-mounted positions at targets placed at unknown distances. - A Marine with 2nd Combat Engineer Battalion shoots the M2 .50-caliber heavy machine gun at targets placed at unknown distances at range SR-7 aboard Camp Lejeune, N.C., April 7, 2015. Approximately 30 Marines from the battalion conducted a two-day, machine-gun range in which they shot the M249 Squad Automatic Weapon, M240 Bravo medium machine gun, and the .50-caliber heavy machine gun from both the mounted and un-mounted positions at targets placed at unknown distances.

Lance Cpl. Brett Haertling, an intelligence analyst with Scout Platoon, 2nd Tank Battalion, and a Jackson, Miss. native, makes a fully loaded Mk 19 automatic grenade launcher ready to fire by pulling back on the charging handle during an annual qualification at training area G-7 aboard Camp Lejeune, N.C., Jan. 21, 2015. Marines with the unit launched grenades at various, non-moving targets between 400 and 1,500 meters away to prove their level of marksmanship. - Lance Cpl. Brett Haertling, an intelligence analyst with Scout Platoon, 2nd Tank Battalion, and a Jackson, Miss. native, makes a fully loaded Mk 19 automatic grenade launcher ready to fire by pulling back on the charging handle during an annual qualification at training area G-7 aboard Camp Lejeune, N.C., Jan. 21, 2015. Marines with the unit launched grenades at various, non-moving targets between 400 and 1,500 meters away to prove their level of marksmanship.