Mounting a 240B machine gun to the turret of an armored vehicle, Pvt. Ezechiel Makalao, a water treatment specialist, from Cameroon, Africa, with the 407th Brigade Support Battalion of the 82nd Airborne Division’s 2nd Advise and Assist Brigade, checks the weapon’s action before a logistical convoy to deliver supplies to outlying camps in the Anbar province of Iraq, Aug 1.