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U.S. Marines with 5th Air Naval Gunfire Liaison Company and 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion conduct a Tactical Air Control Party shoot with close air support at night at the W-174 Joint Okinawa Training Range Complex from August 16-17, 2023.
Major Zerbin M. Singleton, an Air Officer with III Marine Expeditionary Force Air Center, Captain Clay Smith, an Air Officer with 5th ANGLICO, and Staff Sergeant Joshua Barnes, a Joint Terminal Attack Controller (JTAC), also with 5th ANGLICO, controlled F/A-18 aircraft from VMFA-115. Master Sergeant Thomas J. Dye, a JTAC evaluator from 12th Marine Regiment, and Staff Sergeant Malcom Allen IV, a JTAC from 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion, controlled aircraft during an evaluation to support his upgrade to a JTAC-Evaluator.
During the training, the aircraft fired over two thousand rounds, two inert laser guided bombs, two inert JDAMs (Joint Direct Attack Munitions), and twenty-four 2.75 inch inert rockets.
| Date Taken: | 08.16.2023 |
| Date Posted: | 08.29.2023 02:20 |
| Photo ID: | 7994379 |
| VIRIN: | 230816-M-LR115-8918 |
| Resolution: | 4608x3456 |
| Size: | 1.57 MB |
| Location: | OKINAWA, JP |
| Web Views: | 62 |
| Downloads: | 10 |
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