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Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Clayton R. Beauchamp. 7 August 2012.

Died in Shaban District, Helmand Province, Afghanistan when enemy forces attacked his unit with an improvised explosive device while conducting a dismounted patrol.  Beauchamp was assigned to 1st Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 6, 1st Marine Division (Forward), I Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward), Camp Pendleton, Calif.

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Lighting up the night.

Marines with Regimental Combat Team 6’s personal security detachment shoot their M4 rifles during a night range at Forward Operating Base Delaram II, Afghanistan. The Marines used night vision goggles and infrared lasers to see and aim in on their targets. The PSD is responsible for ensuring the regimental commanding officer and other distinguished visitors can safely move about the regiment’s area of operations.

(Photo by Staff Sergeant Brian Buckwalter, 29 May 2012 via DVIDS.)

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Marines with Headquarters and Support Company, 1st Battalion, 24th Marines conduct a 21 Gun Salute during the memorial ceremony in honor of Corporal Mark D. Kidd from Milford, MI, aboard Camp Baharia Iraq.

Regimental Combat Team 6 deployed with II Marine Expeditionary Force in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in the Al Anbar Province of Iraq (Multi-National Forces-West) to develop the Iraqi Security Forces, facilitate the development of official rule of law through democratic government reforms and continue the development of a market based economy centered on Iraqi Reconstruction.

(U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl Samuel D. Corum, 3 February 2007 via DVIDS.)