U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Matt Mason, an automatic rifleman with Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment, fires blanks at advancing Latvian soldiers during an urban operation between Marines and Latvians soldiers, during Exercise Northern Strike at Camp Grayling, Mich., Aug. 12, 2018.
Marines with 1/24 served as opposition forces through the duration of Exercise Northern Strike, an exercise that unites service members from multiple branches, states and coalition countries to conduct combined ground and air combat operations. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Niles Lee) Original public domain image from Flickr