Photos of the day: Sizing a small island in South China Sea, by a PLAN Marine company

A combat-readiness patrol and high-sea training taskforce under the South China Sea Fleet of the Navy of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) carried out beach-seizing and landing training in the waters of the South China Sea on March 21, 2012. The officers and men are pushing an assault boat out of the dock. (chinamil.com.cn/Qian Xiaohu, Song Xin Gao Yi and Gan Jun)