A Marine provides cover fire during a raid training scenario.
A Marine with Bravo Company, Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, provides cover fire during a raid training scenario at the Operations in Urban Terrain training facility at Camp Lejeune, N.C., on Dec. 18, 2011. The Marines were inserted into Camp Lejeune from amphibious ships of Amphibious Squadron 8 positioned 3-5 miles off the coast of North Carolina with the task of assaulting an enemy position inland. The training was a culminating event as part of Composite Training Unit Exercise a three-week exercise with 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit embarked at sea to develop cohesion with Amphibious Squadron 8 in conducting amphibious operations, crisis response, and limited contingency operations while operating from the sea.