U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Beau Hopkins, a rifleman

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Beau Hopkins, a rifleman with Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Crisis Response-Africa, demonstrates reloading techniques to a Mauritanian Fusilier Marin during a machine gun range near Rosso, Mauritania, Aug. 30, 2016. Marines worked on small unit tactics, detainee procedures, weapons handling and marksmanship techniques while training with the Mauritanian FUMA to aid in the suppression of illicit trafficking in the region. U.S. Marines and Sailors assigned to Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force-Crisis Response-Africa Command support operations, contingencies and security cooperation in the U.S. Africa Command area of responsibility. (U.S. Marine Corps courtesy photo)