Marine Corps Sgt. Danielle V. Beck fires an M41A4 Saber missile launcher during a live-fire exercise on Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, N.C., Jan. 14, 2015. Beck is an anti-tank missileman assigned to Weapons Company, Ground Combat Element Integrated Task Force.
U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Alicia R. Leaders
U.S. Marines with Combat Logistics Battalion 26, 2nd Marine Logistics Group, hike to their next bivouac site at the U.S. Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center (MWTC) Bridgeport, Calif., Jan. 20, 2015. MWTC trains Marines across the warfighting functions for operations in mountainous, high altitude, and cold weather environments in order to enhance a unit's ability to shoot, move, communicate, sustain, and survive in mountainous regions of the world. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Anthony L. Ortiz / Released)Command Sgt. Maj. Gregory F. Nowak, right, the command sergeant major of Joint Forces Command – United Assistance and the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), and Command Sgt. Maj. Ian Griffin, left, the command sergeant major for the 101st Sustainment Brigade, deployed as Task Force Lifeliner, JFC-UA, inspect the undercarriage of a vehicle at the United States Department of Agriculture inspection point at Camp Buchanan, Liberia, Jan. 23, 2015. Soldiers of the 129th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, assisting JFC-UA, operate the USDA inspection point in order to ensure that all vehicles and equipment headed back to the U.S. meet customs standards. This is part of redeployment operations as service members deployed in support of Operation United Assistance head home after completing their missions in Liberia. Operation United Assistance is a Department of Defense operation in Liberia to provide logistics, training and engineering support to U.S. Agency for International Development-led efforts to contain the Ebola virus outbreak in western Africa. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Caitlyn Byrne, 27th Public Affairs Detachment/RELEASED)150121-N-FT110-218
ARABIAN GULF (Jan. 21, 2015) An EA-18G Growler from the Cougars of Electronic Attack Squadron (VAQ) 139 launches from the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) as the ship conducts flight operations in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility supporting Operation Inherent Resolve. Carl Vinson is deployed to the area supporting maritime security operations, strike operations in Iraq and Syria as directed, and theater security cooperation efforts in the 5th Fleet area of responsibility. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman D’Andre L. Roden/Released)
U.S. Marine Corps Pfc. Joseph P. Clem, a rifleman assigned to Fox Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment (2/3), fires the AT-4 launcher during simulated machine gun fire at Range 104 aboard Camp Wilson, Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, Calif., Jan. 20th, 2015. Fox Company is increasing their proficiency in skills pertaining to their Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) prior to upcoming events for Integrated Training Exercise (ITX). (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Aaron S. Patterson, MCBH Combat Camera/Released)A combined force of Royal Thai, Malaysian and U.S. military engineers provide support to a column being raised by a crane at Ban Khong-Plong elementary school, located in Khok Samrong district, Lop Buri Province, Thailand, Sunday, Jan. 25, 2015. As part of Exercise Cobra Gold 2015, these engineers have been working on a new multipurpose facility at Ban Khong-Plong that will serve as a library for children ages 4-12 and a local marketplace.U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Douglas Edmiston provides security during a shura near Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, Jan. 17, 2015. Edmiston is assigned to 2nd Squadron, 3rd Cavalry Regiment.
U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class David Wheeler U.S. Marine Cpl. Craig Lewis, a communications chief with the 5th Air Naval Gunfire Liaison Company, uses two stacked devices, (on the top) the joint terminal attack controller laser targeting device and (on the bottom) the PAS-25, a thermal optic to see at night, Jan. 13 at Idesuna-Jima range W-174, Okinawa, Japan. Marines effectively combine the devices' capabilities to mark targets at night with a laser so pilots know where to attack. Lewis is from Gilbert, Ariz., and is with the 5th ANGLICO detachment assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Abbey Perria/Released)
