Readiness

Lance Cpl. Sean Burke, a Reserve Marine from Company E, 2/25, searches inside a stove for hidden explosive equipment during a training exercise here June 26, 2008. A select group of reserve Marines bound for Iraq came to the Joint Center of Excellence's Search and Tactical Site Exploitation course as part of their predeployment training. Burke put his junior year of college at Temple University on hold for his first deployment overseas.