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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

Flames blaze from the muzzle as tracer rounds are fired from a machine gun by a Marine wearing night-vision equipment, as another Marine, also with night-vision equipment, stands nearby in dark conditions on a ship, with an ocean in the background.

Night Fire

Marines conduct a live-fire exercise with a .50-caliber machine gun on the transport dock ship USS Portland in the Indo-Pacific region, June 12, 2026. The Marines, assigned to the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit, are deployed on the Portland as part of the Boxer Amphibious Ready Group.

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