A U.S. Coast Guardsman with a Maritime Security Response Team (MSRT) fires at targets across the water during advanced interdiction machine gun boat proficiency training near Bombing Target 9, North Carolina, March 9, 2021. MSRT’s mission is to conduct maritime threat response as a primary force or as part of a United States Coast Guard or interagency adaptive force package. Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina’s, training sites, such as BT-11 and BT-9, allow forces from across the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security to come and conduct a wide manner of training events.
*U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Jacob Bertram