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British service members with 30 Commando IX (Information Exploitation) Group, 3 Commando Brigade, Royal Marines, practice shooting on the move at a range aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, N.C., July 1. This exercise prepared them for live-fire, room clearance drills they performed at the base’s Military Operations on Urban Terrain facility. - British service members with 30 Commando IX (Information Exploitation) Group, 3 Commando Brigade, Royal Marines, practice shooting on the move at a range aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, N.C., July 1. This exercise prepared them for live-fire, room clearance drills they performed at the base’s Military Operations on Urban Terrain facility.

Sgt. Maj. Efren Z. Whitehead (right), sergeant major of the Marine Corps Engineer School, Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, salutes the American flag delivered by the 310SUG-V counter-improvised explosive device robot during a retirement ceremony for Col. David S. Heesacker, commanding officer of MCES, at Courthouse Bay aboard the base, July 1. Heesacker is retiring from the Marine Corps after 32 years of active-duty service. - Sgt. Maj. Efren Z. Whitehead (right), sergeant major of the Marine Corps Engineer School, Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, salutes the American flag delivered by the 310SUG-V counter-improvised explosive device robot during a retirement ceremony for Col. David S. Heesacker, commanding officer of MCES, at Courthouse Bay aboard the base, July 1. Heesacker is retiring from the Marine Corps after 32 years of active-duty service.

Chief Warrant Officer 3 Darron Todd, maintenance officer with Marine Special Operations School, Marine Special Operations Command, fires a .410 shotgun at an airborne clay pigeon at the McIntyre Skeet Range aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, June 25. Todd, part of the All-Marine Skeet Team, is one of eight Marines who are scheduled to represent the Marine Corps and the United States in the upcoming 2010 World Skeet Shooting Championships this October. - Chief Warrant Officer 3 Darron Todd, maintenance officer with Marine Special Operations School, Marine Special Operations Command, fires a .410 shotgun at an airborne clay pigeon at the McIntyre Skeet Range aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, June 25. Todd, part of the All-Marine Skeet Team, is one of eight Marines who are scheduled to represent the Marine Corps and the United States in the upcoming 2010 World Skeet Shooting Championships this October.

(from left to right) Col. Richard P. Flatau Jr., outgoing commanding officer of Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, shakes hands with incoming commanding officer, Col. Daniel J. Lecce, during a change-of-command ceremony at Paradise Point Officers’ Club aboard the base, June 25. The handshake signified the end of Flatau’s two-and-a-half year reign and the beginning of Lecce’s new role as commanding officer. - (from left to right) Col. Richard P. Flatau Jr., outgoing commanding officer of Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, shakes hands with incoming commanding officer, Col. Daniel J. Lecce, during a change-of-command ceremony at Paradise Point Officers’ Club aboard the base, June 25. The handshake signified the end of Flatau’s two-and-a-half year reign and the beginning of Lecce’s new role as commanding officer.

MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. -- A Marine with Brig Company, Headquarters and Support Battalion, Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, keeps a hold of role-playing inmate Lance Cpl. Vincent Martone during the demonstration portion of a prisoner cell transfer exercise at the Camp Lejeune brig, June 16. Soldiers with 308th Military Police Company Internment/Resettlement, United States Army Reserve, learned transfer noncompliant inmates as part of the training for their upcoming deployment. - MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. -- A Marine with Brig Company, Headquarters and Support Battalion, Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, keeps a hold of role-playing inmate Lance Cpl. Vincent Martone during the demonstration portion of a prisoner cell transfer exercise at the Camp Lejeune brig, June 16. Soldiers with 308th Military Police Company Internment/Resettlement, United States Army Reserve, learned transfer noncompliant inmates as part of the training for their upcoming deployment.