U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Edward Reyes, left, and Lance Cpl. Daniel Puente, both mortarman with Weapons Company, 1st Battalion, 23D Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division, conducts a mortar range during Integrated Training Exercise 4-23 at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, California on June 12, 2023. As the Marine Corps Reserve’s premier annual training event, ITX provides opportunities to mobilize geographically dispersed forces for a deployment; increase combat readiness and lethality; and exercise MAGTF command and control of battalions and squadrons across the full spectrum of warfare. Reyes is a native of Fort Worth, Texas where he graduated from Fossil Ridge High School. Reyes’s civilian job is a firefighter. Puente is a native of Fort Worth, Texas where he graduated from Harlandale High School. Puente’s civilian job is salesman.