Lock and load: logistics Marines train with machine guns

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Marines with 2nd Marine Logistics Group check clearance space for the bolt, or headspace, inside an M2 Browning .50-caliber machine gun during the live-fire exercise portion of the Battle Skills Training School machine gunner course aboard Camp Lejeune, N.C., Oct. 4, 2013. Ensuring proper headspace within the weapon is crucial to preventing damage to the weapon or injury to the gunner while firing, following a barrel change.

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Lock, load: logistics Marines train with machine guns

Oct 8, 2013

Camp Lejeune, N.C., U.S. - Marines with 2nd Marine Logistics Group check clearance space for the bolt, or headspace, inside an M2 Browning .50-caliber machine gun during the live-fire exercise portion of the Battle Skills Training School machine gunner course aboard Camp Lejeune, N.C., Oct. 4, 2013. Ensuring proper headspace within the weapon is crucial to preventing damage to the weapon or injury to the gunner while firing, following a barrel change.

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