marines of 3rd platoon, alpha company, 1/3, spent much of their day july 8 training as pairs and four-man fire teams to make dynamic entries into doorways at the range 1 "shoot house."

marines of battalion landing team 1st battalion 9th marine regiment and combat logistics battalion 24 hit the range in order to brush up on their skills with the mk-19 grenade launcher at fort a.p. hill, va., july 31. (u.s. marine corps photo by lcpl. david j. beall)

capt. jonathan morganstein, the intelligence officer for the 2nd battalion, 25th marine regiment's military transition team, practices shooting from the kneeling position by a simulated window during a small arms live-fire range aug. 1 at camp pendleton, calif. the mitt is headed for a seven-month deployment to iraq in the fall

corporal alex carreon and cpl. richard b. gardner, both students at the combat hunter course, observe and record the activity going on at the kilo 2 combat town, july 30. the marines watched as role-players acting as insurgents set up sniper positions on a prominent community leader. the scenario was to show the marines how to determine who the leaders among the insurgents where by looking at their actions and habits.