A U.S. Army Fire Controls Specialist with the 101st

A U.S. Army Fire Controls Specialist with the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) uses a Lightweight Laser Designator Rangefinder 2H to provide fire-support target acquisition and reconnaissance during close air support training with Marine pilots flying a AH-1W Super Cobra attack helicopter and a UH-1Y Venom helicopter during Warrior Exercise 78-17-01 on March 17, 2017 at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst. Fire Controls Specialist assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 3rd Battalion, 320th Field Artillery Regiment, along with the leadership from Company A (Easy Company), 2nd Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment spent the day with New Jersey Air Guard’s 227th Air Support Operations Squadron, 177th Fighter Wing and the Marine Reserve pilots are assigned to Marine Light/Attack Helicopter Squadron 773, Detachment B. The training was part of the Army Reserve’s 84th Training Command’s WAREX 78-71-01 which was held March 8 to April 1, 2017. Roughly 60 units from the Army Reserve, Army, Air Force, Marine Reserves, and Canadian Armed Forces participated in the training exercise, which is a large-scale collective training event designed to assess units’ combat capabilities as America’s Army Reserve continues to build the most capable, combat-ready and lethal Federal Reserve force in the history of the Nation. (Army Reserve Photo by Master Sgt. Mark Bell / Released)