An RQ-7B Shadow Unmanned Aerial Vehicle is launched aboard the Combat Center in a test flight at the VMU-1 airfield Feb. 15, 2011. - An RQ-7B Shadow Unmanned Aerial Vehicle is launched aboard the Combat Center in a test flight at the VMU-1 airfield Feb. 15, 2011.
Staff Sgt. Elmer Estes, an instructor at the Twentynine Palms Staff Noncommissioned Officers Academy, counsels a Marine in his Sergeants Course class Feb. 15, 2011, in a Sergeants Course barracks. Estes was recently named the Combat Center’s Instructor of the Year. - Staff Sgt. Elmer Estes, an instructor at the Twentynine Palms Staff Noncommissioned Officers Academy, counsels a Marine in his Sergeants Course class Feb. 15, 2011, in a Sergeants Course barracks. Estes was recently named the Combat Center’s Instructor of the Year.
Marines stand “at the ready,” and wait for their virtual targets to appear during training in the Combat Center’s Indoor Simulated Marksmanship Trainer, Feb. 8, 2011. - Marines stand “at the ready,” and wait for their virtual targets to appear during training in the Combat Center’s Indoor Simulated Marksmanship Trainer, Feb. 8, 2011.
The Mountain Leadership Course at the Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center in Bridgeport, Calif., teaches unit leaders survival techniques, mobility and mountain living in a snowy mountainous environment. The six-week course also focuses on strengthening the skills the Marines learned before returning to their parent units. - The Mountain Leadership Course at the Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center in Bridgeport, Calif., teaches unit leaders survival techniques, mobility and mountain living in a snowy mountainous environment. The six-week course also focuses on strengthening the skills the Marines learned before returning to their parent units.
Marines send an 81mm mortar round downrange during an exercise designed to qualify forward observers at Range 106 Feb. 3, 2011. - Marines send an 81mm mortar round downrange during an exercise designed to qualify forward observers at Range 106 Feb. 3, 2011.
A Marine from 2nd Combat Engineer Battalion trains on the Deployable Virtual Training Environment at the Battle Simulation Center in Camp Wilson Feb. 8, 2011. - A Marine from 2nd Combat Engineer Battalion trains on the Deployable Virtual Training Environment at the Battle Simulation Center in Camp Wilson Feb. 8, 2011.