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Lance Cpl. Joshua Ratzlaff, a chart operator serving with 2nd Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment, and a native of Spokane, Wash., helps members of the fire direction center convert target data into firing commands for the gunline during Exercise Desert Scimitar, a combined-arms, live-fire training exercise here, May 2, 2013. The FDC's job is to take the information given to them by forward observers and compute how wind, air pressure, temperature, humidity and other weather conditions will effect an artillery round while airborne.
| Date Taken: | 05.02.2013 |
| Date Posted: | 05.06.2013 23:40 |
| Photo ID: | 924514 |
| VIRIN: | 130502-M-OM885-176 |
| Resolution: | 3456x2304 |
| Size: | 2.79 MB |
| Location: | MARINE CORPS AIR GROUND COMBAT CENTER TWENTYNINE PALMS, CALIFORNIA, US |
| Hometown: | SPOKANE, WASHINGTON, US |
| Web Views: | 35 |
| Downloads: | 11 |
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Fire Direction Center provides data during Exercise Desert Scimitar
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