Extracting a shell

Smoke rolls out of an expended artillery round as Sgt. Flint Elsik extracts the shell from a Howitzer during a live-fire training exercise, Aug. 24, 2012. Paratroopers assigned to Battery B, 2nd Battalion, 319th Airborne Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, conducted defensive live-fire exercises during the brigade’s week-long field training exercise in preparation for a Joint Readiness Training Center rotation.

(Photo by Spc. Adam Hesley/2nd BCT, 82nd Abn. Div. PAO)

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