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Balikatan 25: 317 AW transports NMESIS to Batan Island

U.S. Marines with Medium-Range Missile Battery, 3d Littoral Combat Team, 3d Marine Littoral Regiment, 3d Marine Division load a Navy-Marine Expeditionary Ship Interdiction System onto a U.S. Air Force C-130J Super Hercules assigned to 39th Airlift Squadron during Exercise Balikatan 25 at Lal-lo, Philippines, April 26, 2025. This marks the inaugural deployment of the newly fielded Marine Corps weapon system to the Philippines and serves as a major milestone for the continuously developing U.S.-Philippines Alliance. Balikatan is a longstanding annual exercise between the Armed Forces of the Philippines and U.S. military designed to strengthen our ironclad alliance, improve our capable combined force, and demonstrate our commitment to regional security and stability. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Chief Warrant Officer 2 Trent Randolph)

PHOTO BY: Chief Warrant Officer Trent Randolf
VIRIN: 250426-M-TQ917-1054.JPG
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Additional Details

CAMERA

Canon EOS Ra

LENS

EF24-105mm f/4L IS USM

APERTURE

4

SHUTTERSPEED

1/500

ISO

100

IMAGE IS PUBLIC DOMAIN

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