Posted: 05/01/2014
U.S. Marine Master Sgt. Dean Beutz (left) with Lima Battery, 3d Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, gives Ryan Forbes (center), a 13-year-old San Diego native diagnosed with Medulloblastoma, a form of brain cancer, an empty primer casing from an M-777 Lightweight 155mm howitzer during a Make-A-Wish Foundation event aboard Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center (MCAGCC) in Twentynine Palms, Calif., May 13, 2014. Make-A-Wish Foundation partnered with 11th Marine Regiment to help Forbes fulfill his wish to become a Marine for a day. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Ismael Ortega, 1st Marine Division Combat Camera)