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Sep 25, 2008

A Marine with Kilo Company, Battalion Landing Team, 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit, throws a practice grenade into a drain culvert during a grenade reaction course Sept. 25, 2008, aboard Fort Pickett, Va., a Virginia Army National Guard Maneuver Training Center. Kilo Company trained with practice grenades, trainer variants of the AT-4 light anti-armor weapon, and Shoulder-fired Multipurpose Anti-armor Weapons, or SMAWs, loaded with small-caliber spotting rounds. BLT 3/2 is aboard Fort Pickett for their off-site training, the first in a series of progressively more complex exercises during the 22nd MEU's six-month pre-deployment training cycle. The MEU is preparing for a scheduled six-month deployment this spring. (Official Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Theodore W. Ritchie)::r::::n::

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