Cruisin' for a Bruisin'
You voted, and for back-to-back wins, this week's Corps Top Shot comes from Cpl. Tyler Main. Main had been hoping to photograph the tanks in action all week and while at a small-arms range with Marines waiting to fire rockets, he saw big plumes of dust in the distance. "I kinda just ran off
the firing line toward the road they were coming down and waited. Some Marines stared a little trying to figure out why I just ran off by myself. Once they saw the tanks flying down the road everyone pulled cameras from different pouches on their body armor and ran after me. We only got pictures of the first one, because after it passed, the dust storm it just created practically buried us. I never remembered looking at many tank pictures since I've been in, I think the people who voted were kind of curious about them too, which may be why it won this week."
Marines from 4th Tank Battalion, Twentynine Palms, Calif., roll down a dirt road on their M1A1 Abrams Main Battle Tank during a day of training at Exercise African Lion 2012, April 13. AL-12 is a U.S. African Command-sponsored, Marine Forces Africa-led exercise involving various types of training including command post, live-fire and maneuvering, peace keeping operations, an intelligence capacity building seminar, aerial refueling/low-level flight training, as well as medical and dental assistance projects. The annual exercise is designed to improve interoperability and mutual understanding of each nation's military tactics, techniques and procedures.
(U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Tyler Main). Original public domain image from Flickr