Private first class Alex Pelletier fires a .50 Cal. machine gun during a live-fire training exercise at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, N.C., Nov. 29, 2016. Marines with Combined Anti-Armor team, Weapons Company, 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marine practiced vehicle buddy rushes with High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles to learn to communicate and move through an objective. Pelletier is a machine gunner with the unit. 