The world is hungry for visual storytelling, and TFB’s Photo Of The Day does its best to keep the feed alive and well. Here we have U.S. Marines with the Battalion Landing Team 1/5, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU). They were engaging floating targets during an aerial snipers exercise in the Philippine Sea earlier in 2022. The exercise focuses on proficiency in engaging targets from an aircraft.

U.S. Marines with Battalion Landing Team 1/5, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), prepare to board.

As a sniper, you need to be calm as this sea. Everything else is moving anyway.

U.S. Marines engaging various floating targets in the Philippine Sea with the .50 BMG Barrett.

U.S. Marines with Battalion Landing Team 1/5, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), board amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6) after completing an aerial sniper exercise in the Philippine Sea.

Photos by U.S. Marine Corps, Lance Cpl. Manuel Alvarado