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.
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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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I guess you could say the Lance Corporal was...
*sunglasses*
...going Kostal.
Camp Fuji is in Shizuoka, more than 100km from the nearest border to Aichi prefecture.