 The purpose of a defensive operation, really there's a number of reasons. One of them being to hold key terrain to allow time for us to consolidate our forces or to force the enemy to consolidate their forces and have to mass combat power against ours. The training we did today was mainly focused on our medium machine gunners getting out here. We created a course of fire for a modified Table 2 unknown distance shoot to allow an evaluation for team leaders as well as gunners. After that we went into an offensive scenario so machine gunners still engaging targets with maneuver element moving onto an objective forcing shifting and ceasing of fires for our machine gunners. Observing for a target, the human eyes train to look left or right but I train my Marines to look right to left when looking for targets to prosecute. Reason being is that's easier to pick up anomalies in the baseline so you can better see the targets and neutralize the targets in the most obedient way possible.