Icame across this cool photo today, and I thought I’d share it with Team SOFREP.

Here we see Navy SEAL Tommy Richardson helping out guys from the 82nd Airborne by standing on the base plate of one of their M252 81mm mortars as they get off their first shot in Afghanistan. He has his hand on the shoulders of the guy with his fingers in his ears to help steady himself. This is an example of Army/Navy teamwork at its finest.

A Bit About the M252 81mm Mortar

When a battalion sets up in the field, the M252 mortar is the dependable workhorse quietly ready to send steel downrange—a medium-weight, muzzle-loaded marvel that’s been lending a deadly whisper to indirect fire since the late 1980s. Born from British engineering—the L16A2—but assembled with American refinement, the M252 entered U.

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