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U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Trenton Z. Brown, a rifleman and team leader with Recapture Tactics Team, Marine Corps Security Force Regiment, and British Royal Marine Cpl. Michael Dowd, an armored support group team member with 43 Commando Fleet Protection Group Royal Marines, adjusts a battle sight zero on a C8 assault rifle during exercise Tartan Eagle Phase II, Northumbria Police Range, Wallsend, England, Dec. 11, 2021. This range allowed U.S. Marines to operate alongside British Royal Marines in a similar occupation field while conducting movement-to-contact and pistol drills. Exercise Tartan Eagle is a bilateral biyearly training exercise for the U.S. Marines and British Royal Marines to train close-quarters battle strategy and tactics. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Angel Alvarado)
211211-M-AR474-1053.JPG Photo By: Lance Cpl. Angel Alvarado

Dec 27, 2021
NORTHUMBERLAND, England - U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Trenton Z. Brown, a rifleman and team leader with Recapture Tactics Team, Marine Corps Security Force Regiment, and British Royal Marine Cpl. Michael Dowd, an armored support group team member with 43 Commando Fleet Protection Group Royal Marines, adjusts a battle sight zero on a C8 assault rifle during exercise Tartan Eagle Phase II, Northumbria Police Range, Wallsend, England, Dec. 11, 2021. This range allowed U.S. Marines to operate alongside British Royal Marines in a similar occupation field while conducting movement-to-contact and pistol drills. Exercise Tartan Eagle is a bilateral biyearly training exercise for the U.S. Marines and British Royal Marines to train close-quarters battle strategy and tactics. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Angel Alvarado)


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