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Army 1st Lt. Tyler Sinisgalli, center, briefs soldiers during M249 Squad Automatic Weapon qualification at Grezelka range on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, March 3, 2015. Sinisgalli is assigned to the 25th Infantry Division's Company A, 501st Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team Airborne, Alaska. The M249 is an American adaptation of a Belgian light machine gun that has been used in every major conflict involving the United States since the U.S. invasion of Panama in 1989.

Army 1st Lt. Tyler Sinisgalli, center, briefs soldiers during M249 Squad Automatic Weapon qualification at Grezelka range on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, March 3, 2015. Sinisgalli is assigned to the 25th Infantry Division's Company A, 501st Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team Airborne, Alaska. The M249 is an American adaptation of a Belgian light machine gun that has been used in every major conflict involving the United States since the U.S. invasion of Panama in 1989.

Army 1st Lt. Tyler Sinisgalli, center, briefs soldiers during M249 Squad Automatic Weapon qualification at Grezelka range on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, March 3, 2015. Sinisgalli is assigned to the 25th Infantry Division's Company A, 501st Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team Airborne, Alaska. The M249 is an American adaptation of a Belgian light machine gun that has been used in every major conflict involving the United States since the U.S. invasion of Panama in 1989.

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