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MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. – U.S. Marines with 1st Reconnaissance Battalion and Japanese Soldiers with the Western Army Infantry Regiment, Japan Ground Self Defense Force, attempt to flip a combat rubber raiding craft during exercise Iron Fist 2018, Jan. 18. During helocasting, after being thrown from a helicopter, combat rubber raiding craft can land upside-down in the water requiring the Marines and Soldiers to stand on top of the craft and use their body weight to pull it right-side up. Iron Fist is an annual, bilateral amphibious training exercise designed to improve USMC and JGSDF’s ability to plan, communicate and conduct combined amphibious operations at the platoon, company and battalion levels. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Matthew Teutsch)
| Date Taken: | 01.18.2018 |
| Date Posted: | 01.18.2018 21:34 |
| Photo ID: | 4083563 |
| VIRIN: | 180118-M-QR315-0014 |
| Resolution: | 4000x2250 |
| Size: | 585.23 KB |
| Location: | CAMP PENDLETON, CA, US |
| Web Views: | 38 |
| Downloads: | 26 |
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