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U.S. Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt. Matthew Nygaard, a Hastings, Minnesota native, the 2025 Marine Corps Engineer Association Combat Engineer Staff Noncommissioned Officer of the Year, and an operations chief with Combat Logistics Battalion 15 (CLB-15), Combat Logistics Regiment 17, 1st Marine Logistics Group, assigned to Joint Task Force-Southern Border (JTF-SB), poses for a portrait before preparing concertina wire to be placed on the southern border barrier in Yuma, Ariz., Aug. 11, 2025. JTF-SB executes full-scale, agile, and all-domain operations in support of U.S. Customs and Border Protection to protect the territorial integrity of the United States and achieve 100% operational control of the southern border. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Mary Torres)