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While demonstrating his ability to imitate improvised explosive devices at Quantico’s Urban Training Center on May 30, 2013, tactical training support specialist Randy Powell shows the fake mortar round that just threw up a cloud of talcum powder next to an imitation IED buried in a fake dead goat. An Explotrain OMG unit hidden across the street had produced the accompanying “boom,” while a Badger AK-47 simulator seemed to bring to life the shooter dummies in nearby windows. Powell operates all the devices by remote control. - While demonstrating his ability to imitate improvised explosive devices at Quantico’s Urban Training Center on May 30, 2013, tactical training support specialist Randy Powell shows the fake mortar round that just threw up a cloud of talcum powder next to an imitation IED buried in a fake dead goat. An Explotrain OMG unit hidden across the street had produced the accompanying “boom,” while a Badger AK-47 simulator seemed to bring to life the shooter dummies in nearby windows. Powell operates all the devices by remote control.

In a relief and appointment ceremony held May 7, 2013, at the National Museum of the Marine Corps, Col. Willard Buhl, commanding officer of Wounded Warrior Regiment, left, passes the ceremonial sword to Sgt. Maj. Michael Mack, the regiment’s new sergeant major, as Sgt. Maj. Joseph VanFonda, outgoing sergeant major, center, looks on. Mack arrives from Recruiting Station Orange in Santa Ana, Calif., where he was the station sergeant major. VanFonda was presented with a meritorious service medal for his two years with the regiment, during which he established the unit’s standard policy for medical retirement and transition, as well as the first meritorious promotions program for wounded warriors, and also advocated for the Permanent and Expanded Limited Duty Board, which opened combat positions to Marines with amputations. - In a relief and appointment ceremony held May 7, 2013, at the National Museum of the Marine Corps, Col. Willard Buhl, commanding officer of Wounded Warrior Regiment, left, passes the ceremonial sword to Sgt. Maj. Michael Mack, the regiment’s new sergeant major, as Sgt. Maj. Joseph VanFonda, outgoing sergeant major, center, looks on. Mack arrives from Recruiting Station Orange in Santa Ana, Calif., where he was the station sergeant major. VanFonda was presented with a meritorious service medal for his two years with the regiment, during which he established the unit’s standard policy for medical retirement and transition, as well as the first meritorious promotions program for wounded warriors, and also advocated for the Permanent and Expanded Limited Duty Board, which opened combat positions to Marines with amputations.

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