Marines Train at 29 Palms for Afghan Deployment

Members of 1st Battalion 7th Marines have been training at a modern training facility located at Twentynine Palms in California. The use of the range set up as an Afghan town also includes a number of Afghan role players to provide realism to the training.
(Photo by CPL Joseph Scanlon, USMC)

Read more in "Infantrymen work hand in hand with Afghans during counterinsurgency exercise", DVIDS, December 19, 2013.