Military Photo of the Day: Company Sweep

M-60 Machine Gun Team, October 1968
“Company Sweep: An M-60 machine gun team reaches the crest of a hill while the rest of I Company, 3d Battalion, 5th Marines [I/3/5] stretches out behind during a routine search and clear operation near their combat base here (official USMC photo by Corporal R. J. Del Vecchio).”
From the Jonathan F. Abel Collection (COLL/3611) at the Archives Branch, Marine Corps History Division
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