It's meal time at the Joint Readiness Training Center. Soldiers wearing rain gear and camouflaged fatigues chat among themselves as they eat their Meals Ready to Eat (MREs). A M249 Squad Automatic Weapon (SAW) is lying next to one of the soldiers
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: Fort Polk
State: Louisiana (LA)
Country: United States Of America (USA)
Scene Camera Operator: Raymond A. Barnard
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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joint
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joint readiness
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soldiers
rain
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rain gear
fatigues
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fatigues chat
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squad automatic weapon
louisiana
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m 249 squad automatic weapon
meals ready
fort polk
m 249 light machine gun
infantry
us national archives
Date
17/09/1996
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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