Sergeant Ed Holcombe, USMC, 1ST Tank Battalion, 29 Palms, California, takes advantage of the shade provided by his vehicle on an Egyptian firing range just outside of Mubarak Military City in Egypt to catch-up on a little reading. Where Marines conducted an In-Stride Breech live fire demonstration in front of numerous nations as part of coalition training for this year's BRIGHT STAR 01-02 exercise. An In-Stride Breach is a special type of operation used to overcome and breakthrough unexpected or lightly defended obstacles. BRIGHT STAR is a multinational exercise involving more than 74,000 troops from 44 countries that is designed to enhance regional stability and military-to-military...
![Iraq. Kerbela. Second holy city of the Shiite Moslems [i.e., Muslims]. Pastoral scene near Kerbela](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MzIvMDEvMDEvaXJhcS1rZXJiZWxhLXNlY29uZC1ob2x5LWNpdHktb2YtdGhlLXNoaWl0ZS1tb3NsZW1zLWllLW11c2xpbXMtcGFzdG9yYWwtc2NlbmUtNjQwLmpwZw%3D%3D/40/29/webp "Iraq. Kerbela. Second holy city of the Shiite Moslems [i.e., Muslims]. Pastoral scene near Kerbela")
