POTD: Fuji Viper Machine Gun Range

    Today’s Photo brings us to the Combined Arms Training Center at Camp Fuji, Aichi, Japan.

    We look at US Marines operating a vehicle-mounted M2 machine gun on a range during Exercise Fuji Viper.

    Below: Marine Combined Anti-Armor Teams specialize in the operation of vehicle-mounted weapon systems.

    Below: –“The Kost is clear!” U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. William Kostal fires the .50 BMG M2 machine gun. Kostal is from Hartford, Connecticut.

    Below: We look at an M240B machine gun, again at the Combined Arms Training Center, Camp Fuji. The photo was taken in June 2019.

    Below:

    U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. David Schepemaker with Combined Anti-Armor Team, Weapons Company, 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, currently assigned to 4th Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division under the Unit Deployment Program, loads a mounted M2 machine gun on a range during Exercise Fuji Viper, at Combined Arms Training Center, Camp Fuji, June 17, 2019. Marine Combined Anti-Armor Teams specialize in the operation of vehicle mounted weapon systems. Schepemaker is from Anderson, South Carolina.

    All photos by U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Joshua Sechser.

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