U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Michael Hardy, combat

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Michael Hardy, combat engineer, 1st Combat Engineer Battalion (CEB), 1st Marine Division, sets up a tent during Mountain Training Exercise (MTX) 2-17 at the Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center, Bridgeport, Calif., Feb. 24, 2017. 1st CEB conducted scenario-driven training that encompassed mobility, counter-mobility and survivability operations in a mountainous, snow-covered enironment that challenged 1st CEB to generate combat engineering solutions to infantry driven tasks. Marines from 7th Engineer Support Battalion, 1st Marine Logisitics Group, 2nd Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment and 1st Reconnaissance Battalion also accompanied 1st CEB for this iteration of MTX. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Danny Gonzalez)