Second Lt. Kyle King, a platoon commander serving with Echo Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, and native of Long Beach, Calif., provides a mission brief using a terrain model before beginning a live-fire exercise on Range 800 here, Aug. 13, 2013. The company conducted day and night platoon attacks reinforced by a combined anti-armor team, mortar and machine gun fire as one of their last training exercises before deploying in support of the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit. The 31st MEU is the nation's expeditionary force-in-readiness in the Asia-Pacific region.