Marines Live-Fire Weapons At CATC Fuji

March 23, 2022

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Scenes of U.S. Marines conducting live-fire drills with several weapon systems at Combined Arms Training Center Camp Fuji, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan during March 2022. Live-fire drills and exercises keep Marines consistent in the execution of their roles within their squads.

• Top Left - A U.S. Marine with Kilo Battery, Battalion Landing Team 1/5 (BLT 1/5), 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, pulls the lanyard on a M777A2 Howitzer that fires the shell in the direction of Mt. Fuji in the background.

• Top Right - U.S. Marines with 1st Battalion, 3d Marines, 3d Marine Division conduct a M2A1 machine gun range.

• Bottom Left - U.S. Marines with 1st Battalion, 3d Marines, 3d Marine Division conduct a live-fire M252 81 mm mortar range.

• Bottom Right - U.S. Marines with Battalion Landing Team 1/5, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, fire an M240B machine gun mounted on the top of a Medium Tactical Vehicle Replacement.

Image created by USA Patriotism! from U.S. Marine Corps photos by
Cpl. Malik Lewis, Cpl. Juan Carpanzano, and Lance Cpl. Cesar Ronaldo Alarcon.