Marines with Cobra Company, 4th Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion (4th LAR), stand by for a fire mission in a Light Armored Vehicle 81mm mortar variant (LAV-M) during pre-deployment Marine Corps Combat Readiness Evaluation Exercise (MCREE) on Marine Corps Air-Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, California, Sept. 29, 2023. The MCREE is one of the final pre-deployment evolutions ahead of Cobra's deployment in support of Unit Deployment Program (UPD) 24.1. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by SSgt Cody Montgomery)