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A U.S. Marine Corps F/A-18C Hornet aircraft with Marine Fighting Squadron (VMFA) 112 conducts close air support in support of Marines with 3rd Naval Gunfire Liaison Company, Force Headquarters Group, Marine Forces Reserve, during a tactical air-control party (TACP) exercise at Rattlesnake Range, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Dec. 3, 2025. TACP exercises prepare prospective joint terminal attack controllers and joint fires observers for formal schools. (U.S. Marine Corps photos by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

A U.S. Marine Corps F/A-18C Hornet aircraft with Marine Fighting Squadron (VMFA) 112 conducts close air support in support of Marines with 3rd Naval Gunfire Liaison Company, Force Headquarters Group, Marine Forces Reserve, during a tactical air-control party (TACP) exercise at Rattlesnake Range, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Dec. 3, 2025. TACP exercises prepare prospective joint terminal attack controllers and joint fires observers for formal schools. (U.S. Marine Corps photos by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

Photo by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich

U.S. Marines with 3rd Naval Gunfire Liaison Company, Force Headquarters Group, Marine Forces Reserve, coordinate close air support during a tactical air-control party (TACP) exercise at Rattlesnake Range, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Dec. 3, 2025. TACP exercises prepare prospective joint terminal attack controllers and joint fires observers for formal schools. (U.S. Marine Corps photos by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

U.S. Marines with 3rd Naval Gunfire Liaison Company, Force Headquarters Group, Marine Forces Reserve, coordinate close air support during a tactical air-control party (TACP) exercise at Rattlesnake Range, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Dec. 3, 2025. TACP exercises prepare prospective joint terminal attack controllers and joint fires observers for formal schools. (U.S. Marine Corps photos by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

Photo by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich

U.S. Marines with 3rd Naval Gunfire Liaison Company, Force Headquarters Group, Marine Forces Reserve, watch incoming close air support hit its target during a tactical air-control party (TACP) exercise at Rattlesnake Range, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Dec. 2, 2025. TACP exercises prepare prospective joint terminal attack controllers and joint fires observers for formal schools. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

U.S. Marines with 3rd Naval Gunfire Liaison Company, Force Headquarters Group, Marine Forces Reserve, watch incoming close air support hit its target during a tactical air-control party (TACP) exercise at Rattlesnake Range, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Dec. 2, 2025. TACP exercises prepare prospective joint terminal attack controllers and joint fires observers for formal schools. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

Photo by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich

A U.S. Marine Corps C-130J Super Hercules with Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron (VMGR) 234 conducts fire support during a tactical air-control party (TACP) exercise, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Dec. 3, 2025. TACP exercises prepare prospective joint terminal attack controllers and joint fires observers for formal schools. (U.S. Marine Corps photos by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

A U.S. Marine Corps C-130J Super Hercules with Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron (VMGR) 234 conducts fire support during a tactical air-control party (TACP) exercise, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Dec. 3, 2025. TACP exercises prepare prospective joint terminal attack controllers and joint fires observers for formal schools. (U.S. Marine Corps photos by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

Photo by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich

A U.S. Marine Corps C-130J Super Hercules with Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron (VMGR) 234 conducts fire support during a tactical air-control party (TACP) exercise, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Dec. 3, 2025. TACP exercises prepare prospective joint terminal attack controllers and joint fires observers for formal schools. (U.S. Marine Corps photos by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

A U.S. Marine Corps C-130J Super Hercules with Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron (VMGR) 234 conducts fire support during a tactical air-control party (TACP) exercise, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Dec. 3, 2025. TACP exercises prepare prospective joint terminal attack controllers and joint fires observers for formal schools. (U.S. Marine Corps photos by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

Photo by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich

U.S. Marines with 3rd Naval Gunfire Liaison Company, Force Headquarters Group, Marine Forces Reserve, observe an F/A-18C Hornet aircraft with Marine Fighting Squadron (VMFA) 112 during a tactical air-control party (TACP) exercise at Rattlesnake Range, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Dec. 3, 2025. TACP exercises prepare prospective joint terminal attack controllers and joint fires observers for formal schools. (U.S. Marine Corps photos by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

U.S. Marines with 3rd Naval Gunfire Liaison Company, Force Headquarters Group, Marine Forces Reserve, observe an F/A-18C Hornet aircraft with Marine Fighting Squadron (VMFA) 112 during a tactical air-control party (TACP) exercise at Rattlesnake Range, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Dec. 3, 2025. TACP exercises prepare prospective joint terminal attack controllers and joint fires observers for formal schools. (U.S. Marine Corps photos by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

Photo by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich

A U.S. Marine Corps F/A-18C Hornet aircraft with Marine Fighting Squadron (VMFA) 112 conducts close air support in support of Marines with 3rd Naval Gunfire Liaison Company, Force Headquarters Group, Marine Forces Reserve, during a tactical air-control party (TACP) exercise at Rattlesnake Range, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Dec. 3, 2025. TACP exercises prepare prospective joint terminal attack controllers and joint fires observers for formal schools. (U.S. Marine Corps photos by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

A U.S. Marine Corps F/A-18C Hornet aircraft with Marine Fighting Squadron (VMFA) 112 conducts close air support in support of Marines with 3rd Naval Gunfire Liaison Company, Force Headquarters Group, Marine Forces Reserve, during a tactical air-control party (TACP) exercise at Rattlesnake Range, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Dec. 3, 2025. TACP exercises prepare prospective joint terminal attack controllers and joint fires observers for formal schools. (U.S. Marine Corps photos by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

Photo by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich

A U.S. Marine Corps F/A-18C Hornet aircraft with Marine Fighting Squadron (VMFA) 112 conducts close air support in support of Marines with 3rd Naval Gunfire Liaison Company, Force Headquarters Group, Marine Forces Reserve, during a tactical air-control party (TACP) exercise at Rattlesnake Range, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Dec. 3, 2025. TACP exercises prepare prospective joint terminal attack controllers and joint fires observers for formal schools. (U.S. Marine Corps photos by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

A U.S. Marine Corps F/A-18C Hornet aircraft with Marine Fighting Squadron (VMFA) 112 conducts close air support in support of Marines with 3rd Naval Gunfire Liaison Company, Force Headquarters Group, Marine Forces Reserve, during a tactical air-control party (TACP) exercise at Rattlesnake Range, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Dec. 3, 2025. TACP exercises prepare prospective joint terminal attack controllers and joint fires observers for formal schools. (U.S. Marine Corps photos by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

Photo by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich

U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Isaac Cuellar, a joint fires observer with 3rd Naval Gunfire Liaison Company, Force Head Quarters, Marine Forces Reserve, searches for an incoming F-18 during a close air support run in a tactical air-control party (TACP) exercise at Rattlesnake Range, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Dec. 3, 2025. TACP exercises prepare prospective joint terminal attack controllers and joint fires observers for formal schools. (U.S. Marine Corps photos by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Isaac Cuellar, a joint fires observer with 3rd Naval Gunfire Liaison Company, Force Head Quarters, Marine Forces Reserve, searches for an incoming F-18 during a close air support run in a tactical air-control party (TACP) exercise at Rattlesnake Range, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Dec. 3, 2025. TACP exercises prepare prospective joint terminal attack controllers and joint fires observers for formal schools. (U.S. Marine Corps photos by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

Photo by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich

U.S. Marines with 3rd Naval Gunfire Liaison Company, Force Headquarters Group, Marine Forces Reserve, coordinate close air support during a tactical air-control party (TACP) exercise at Rattlesnake Range, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Dec. 3, 2025. TACP exercises prepare prospective joint terminal attack controllers and joint fires observers for formal schools. (U.S. Marine Corps photos by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

U.S. Marines with 3rd Naval Gunfire Liaison Company, Force Headquarters Group, Marine Forces Reserve, coordinate close air support during a tactical air-control party (TACP) exercise at Rattlesnake Range, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Dec. 3, 2025. TACP exercises prepare prospective joint terminal attack controllers and joint fires observers for formal schools. (U.S. Marine Corps photos by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

Photo by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich

U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Parker Jarrant, a joint terminal attack controller with 3rd Battalion, 14th Marines, 4th Marine Division, Marine Forces Reserve, watches as close air support hits its target during a tactical air-control party (TACP) exercise at Rattlesnake Range, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Dec. 2, 2025. TACP exercises prepare prospective joint terminal attack controllers and joint fires observers for formal schools. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Parker Jarrant, a joint terminal attack controller with 3rd Battalion, 14th Marines, 4th Marine Division, Marine Forces Reserve, watches as close air support hits its target during a tactical air-control party (TACP) exercise at Rattlesnake Range, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Dec. 2, 2025. TACP exercises prepare prospective joint terminal attack controllers and joint fires observers for formal schools. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

Photo by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

U.S. Marine Corps Maj. Sanford Bennett, an air officer with 6th Naval Gunfire Liaison Company, Force Headquarters Group, Marine Forces Reserve, coordinates close air support during a tactical air-control party (TACP) exercise at Rattlesnake Range, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Dec. 2, 2025. TACP exercises prepare prospective joint terminal attack controllers and joint fires observers for formal schools. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

U.S. Marine Corps Maj. Sanford Bennett, an air officer with 6th Naval Gunfire Liaison Company, Force Headquarters Group, Marine Forces Reserve, coordinates close air support during a tactical air-control party (TACP) exercise at Rattlesnake Range, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Dec. 2, 2025. TACP exercises prepare prospective joint terminal attack controllers and joint fires observers for formal schools. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

Photo by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

U.S. Marines with 3rd Naval Gunfire Liaison Company, Force Headquarters Group, Marine Forces Reserve, coordinate close air support during a tactical air-control party (TACP) exercise at Rattlesnake Range, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Dec. 2, 2025. TACP exercises prepare prospective joint terminal attack controllers and joint fires observers for formal schools. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

U.S. Marines with 3rd Naval Gunfire Liaison Company, Force Headquarters Group, Marine Forces Reserve, coordinate close air support during a tactical air-control party (TACP) exercise at Rattlesnake Range, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Dec. 2, 2025. TACP exercises prepare prospective joint terminal attack controllers and joint fires observers for formal schools. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

Photo by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

U.S. Marines with 3rd Naval Gunfire Liaison Company, Force Headquarters Group, Marine Forces Reserve, coordinate close air support during a tactical air-control party (TACP) exercise at Rattlesnake Range, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Dec. 2, 2025. TACP exercises prepare prospective joint terminal attack controllers and joint fires observers for formal schools. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

U.S. Marines with 3rd Naval Gunfire Liaison Company, Force Headquarters Group, Marine Forces Reserve, coordinate close air support during a tactical air-control party (TACP) exercise at Rattlesnake Range, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Dec. 2, 2025. TACP exercises prepare prospective joint terminal attack controllers and joint fires observers for formal schools. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

Photo by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

U.S. Marines with 3rd Naval Gunfire Liaison Company, Force Headquarters Group, Marine Forces Reserve, watch incoming close air support hit its target during a tactical air-control party (TACP) exercise at Rattlesnake Range, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Dec. 2, 2025. TACP exercises prepare prospective joint terminal attack controllers and joint fires observers for formal schools. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

U.S. Marines with 3rd Naval Gunfire Liaison Company, Force Headquarters Group, Marine Forces Reserve, watch incoming close air support hit its target during a tactical air-control party (TACP) exercise at Rattlesnake Range, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Dec. 2, 2025. TACP exercises prepare prospective joint terminal attack controllers and joint fires observers for formal schools. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

Photo by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

U.S. Marines with 3rd Naval Gunfire Liaison Company, Force Headquarters Group, Marine Forces Reserve, watch incoming close air support hit its target during a tactical air-control party (TACP) exercise at Rattlesnake Range, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Dec. 2, 2025. TACP exercises prepare prospective joint terminal attack controllers and joint fires observers for formal schools. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

U.S. Marines with 3rd Naval Gunfire Liaison Company, Force Headquarters Group, Marine Forces Reserve, watch incoming close air support hit its target during a tactical air-control party (TACP) exercise at Rattlesnake Range, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Dec. 2, 2025. TACP exercises prepare prospective joint terminal attack controllers and joint fires observers for formal schools. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

Photo by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

U.S. Marines with 3rd Naval Gunfire Liaison Company, Force Headquarters Group, Marine Forces Reserve, watch incoming close air support hit its target during a tactical air-control party (TACP) exercise at Rattlesnake Range, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Dec. 2, 2025. TACP exercises prepare prospective joint terminal attack controllers and joint fires observers for formal schools. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

U.S. Marines with 3rd Naval Gunfire Liaison Company, Force Headquarters Group, Marine Forces Reserve, watch incoming close air support hit its target during a tactical air-control party (TACP) exercise at Rattlesnake Range, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Dec. 2, 2025. TACP exercises prepare prospective joint terminal attack controllers and joint fires observers for formal schools. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

Photo by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

U.S. Marines with 3rd Naval Gunfire Liaison Company, Force Headquarters Group, Marine Forces Reserve, watch incoming close air support hit its target during a tactical air-control party (TACP) exercise at Rattlesnake Range, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Dec. 2, 2025. TACP exercises prepare prospective joint terminal attack controllers and joint fires observers for formal schools. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

U.S. Marines with 3rd Naval Gunfire Liaison Company, Force Headquarters Group, Marine Forces Reserve, watch incoming close air support hit its target during a tactical air-control party (TACP) exercise at Rattlesnake Range, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Dec. 2, 2025. TACP exercises prepare prospective joint terminal attack controllers and joint fires observers for formal schools. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

Photo by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Isaac Cuellar, a joint fires observer with 3rd Naval Gunfire Liaison Company, Force Headquarters Group, Marine Forces Reserve, calls for close air support during a tactical air-control party (TACP) exercise at Rattlesnake Range, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Dec. 2, 2025. TACP exercises prepare prospective joint terminal attack controllers and joint fires observers for formal schools. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Isaac Cuellar, a joint fires observer with 3rd Naval Gunfire Liaison Company, Force Headquarters Group, Marine Forces Reserve, calls for close air support during a tactical air-control party (TACP) exercise at Rattlesnake Range, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Dec. 2, 2025. TACP exercises prepare prospective joint terminal attack controllers and joint fires observers for formal schools. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

Photo by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

U.S. Marines with 6th Naval Gunfire Liaison Company, Force Headquarters Group, Marine Forces Reserve, simulate plotting and calling in close air support at the Simulated Combat Center on Camp Shelby in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Dec. 2, 2025. TACP exercises prepare prospective joint terminal attack controllers and joint fires observers for formal schools. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

U.S. Marines with 6th Naval Gunfire Liaison Company, Force Headquarters Group, Marine Forces Reserve, simulate plotting and calling in close air support at the Simulated Combat Center on Camp Shelby in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Dec. 2, 2025. TACP exercises prepare prospective joint terminal attack controllers and joint fires observers for formal schools. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

Photo by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)