Stacking the Blast
A Marine stack takes cover behind a protective blanket during an explosion Aug. 28, 2013, while completing a demolitions training evolution at a demo range in the Central Training Area in Okinawa, Japan. The knowledge of the different types of explosives in urban mobility breaching is vital to combat engineers as they perform a key role in a war-time theater. The Marines are combat engineers with 9th Engineer Support Battalion, 3rd Marine Logistics Group, III Marine Expeditionary Force.
(U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Jose Lujano/Released). Original public domain image from Flickr