Marines


Gunslinger 22

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Exercise Gunslinger 2022
Smoky Hill Air National Guard Range, Kansas

ABOUT 

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
Marines participate in MAI course
U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Luis Alicea, left, a ground support equipment mechanic, acts as an opponent for Staff Sgt. Zachary Hilko, an aviation supply chief, both with Marine Aircraft Group 49, 4th Marine Aircraft Wing, Marine Forces Reserve, while he executes a counter utilizing a mokuju bayonet trainer during Martial Arts Instructor Course 1-19 at Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base New Orleans on May 22, 2019. Marines use mokujus during martial arts training to simulate using a rifle with a bayonet in combat. To increase readiness and to support the total force, Reserve and active Marines with MARFORRES participate in the MAI Course. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Preston L. Morris)

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