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Okinawa, Japan - U.S. Marines with Battalion Landing Team, 3rd Battalion 5th Marines, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit conducted machine gun firing tests with the Browning M2 .50 Caliber Machine Gun and M240G Medium Machine Guns at the Central Training Area, Okinawa, Japan. The training was designed to verify the operational effectiveness of the unit's weapon systems and to improve the unit's skills operating machine guns. WORK: BLT 3/5 Machine Gun Range ***THIS FOOTAGE IS SHARED STRICTLY FOR THE PURPOSE OF NEWS REPORTING AND EDUCATION - DOES NOT CONTAIN GRAPHIC CONTENT AND IS NOT MEANT TO SHOCK OR GLORIFY WAR*** About the video / Community guidelines: The purpose of this video is educational, documentary and historical in nature. We are sharing this footage STRICTLY for the purposes of news reporting and educating - THIS IS NOT A COMBAT VIDEO, and is in no way meant to shock or glorify war. We are a news channel and strive to show people video footage that has been left out of the main-stream media. "It's about the WARRIOR, not the WAR! See a veteran, thank a veteran - you just might save that veterans life!"