Mortars Platoon, Golf Battery, Battalion Landing Team,

Mortars Platoon, Golf Battery, Battalion Landing Team, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines, fired several hundred shells during Talisman Saber 17, refining their day and night targeting capabilities as part of a Combined Joint Live Fire Exercise with U.S. and Australian Defence Forces. In this photo illustration, 120 mm gun crews complete a night fire mission on Townshend Island, Shoalwater Bay Training Area, Queensland, Australia, July 16, 2017. Talisman Saber is a biennial exercise designed to improve the interoperability between Australian and U.S. forces. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Staff Sgt. Ralph T. Pfeil IV)