Sergeant Byron Perry, 28, an artilleryman with Fox

Sergeant Byron Perry, 28, an artilleryman with Fox Battery, 2nd Battalion, 11th Marines, rest in-between fire missions during Exercise Desert Scimitar at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, Calif., May 6, 2014. Perry, a native of Oceanside, Calif., is the assistant chief for gun one of the battery during the exercise. Desert Scimitar is a two-week, combined-element exercise to prepare Marines for future deployments. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Ashton Buckingham)