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Loaded down with weapons and ammunition, an Echo Company machine gun squad trudges through the morning heat toward Machine Gun Hill at Range 400 here to provide direct support for a platoon assault during a live-fire exercise July 1, 2008. The reserve company, headquartered in Harrisburg, Pa., is headed to Iraq in the fall with 2nd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment.

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Tags: Range 400, ILOC, Echo 2/25, Machine Gun Hill, Machine Gun Crew, 2nd Battalion 25th Marines, Predeployment Training, Twentynine Palms, M240B machine gun

Photo by: Capt. Paul Greenberg | VIRIN: 080701-M-0000C-000.jpg

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