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Gunslinger 22

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Exercise Gunslinger 2022
Smoky Hill Air National Guard Range, Kansas

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Gunslinger is a large military exercise conducted by the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve’s 4th Marine Aircraft Wing, and the Kansas Air National Guard’s 134th Air Control Squadron of McConnell Air Force Base. More than 1,300 Marines from 11 home training centers across the country have deployed to multiple areas throughout Kansas to participate in Gunslinger 22.

 

GUNSLINGER 22 PHOTO GALLERY
Reserve Marines complete first Joint Fires Observer primer course
Lance Cpl. William Lents, a forward observer with 4th Air Naval Ground Liaison Company, Force Headquarters Group, Marine Forces Reserve, utilizes M22 binoculars to calibrate a vector so he can find the distance and direction of, and for, a target at Avon Park Air Force Range in Avon Park, Florida, Aug. 11, 2017. During the final exercise, students were given the opportunity to not only utilize equipment but to also gain valuable insight of what real-world operations would feel like when they become JFO's.