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Mar 6, 2025

U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Vaughan Lanier, a North Carolina native and a chief scout with Fox Company, 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, uses his radio to communicate with other Marines during an embassy reinforcement mission as part of a training exercise for the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, Jan. 18, 2025. The 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit conducted a Marine Air-Ground Task Force interoperability exercise to rehearse and refine tactics, techniques, and procedures as the command element of a MAGTF in preparation for a wide array of potential future missions, to include personnel recovery, embassy reinforcement, foreign humanitarian assistance, and non-combatant evacuation operations. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Osmar VasquezHernandez)

CAMERA

Canon EOS R6m2

LENS

RF24-105mm F4 L IS USM

APERTURE

56/10

SHUTTERSPEED

1/320

ISO

500

IMAGE IS PUBLIC DOMAIN

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CAMERA

Canon EOS R6m2

LENS

RF24-105mm F4 L IS USM

APERTURE

56/10

SHUTTERSPEED

1/320

ISO

500

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