An Air Force F-22 Raptor assigned to the 3rd Wing flies over Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Feb. 27, 2018. The F-22 Raptor is the U.S. Air Force’s premium fifth-generation fighter asset. ( Jamal Wilson/Air Force)
Soldiers from 3rd Squadron, 71st Cavalry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (LI), fire rounds down-range using a M120 120mm mortar, into the impact zone during a mortar live-fire exercise here on Fort Drum, March 7, 2018. (Staff Sgt. James Avery/Army)
Recruits with Kilo Company, 3rd Recruit Training Battalion, crawl under barbed wire during a bayonet assault course at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, Jan. 30. The recruits were instructed to utilize their rifles to help shield them from the barbed wire as they crawled to the next portion of the course. Annually, more than 17,000 males recruited from the Western Recruiting Region are trained at MCRD San Diego. Kilo Company is scheduled to graduate March 16. (Cpl. Erick Clarosvillalta/Marines)
Sailors and Marines observe an F-35B Lightening II with Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 121 fly above the amphibious assault ship USS Wasp (LHD 1), marking the first time the aircraft has deployed aboard a U.S. Navy ship and with a Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) in the Indo-Pacific. VMFA-121 is assigned under the Okinawa-based 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit 931st MEU), will remain embarked aboard Wasp for a regional patrol meant to strengthen regional alliances, provide rapid-response capability and advance the Up-Gunned ESG concept. (MC1 Alexandra Seeley/Navy)
Marines from Mountain Warfare Training Center, Bridgeport, Calif., prepare to compete in the First Annual International Mountain Warfare Training Patrol Competition at the Chiemgau Arena in Ruhpolding, Germany. The competition is a challenging international competition that focuses on the mountain infantry's capabilities. (Capt. Karen Anne Holliday/Marines)
Airman 1st Class Daquan Hayes, 823rd Base Defense Squadron fire team member, Moody Air Force Base, Jan. 12, 2018. The 823rd is one of three operational security forces squadrons under the 820th Base Defense Group whose mission is to provide high-risk force protection and integrated base defense for expeditionary forces. (Bennie J. Davis III/Air Force)
An F/A-18E Super Hornet assigned to the "Stingers" of Strike Fighter Attack Squadron (VFA) 113 launches from the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71). Theodore Roosevelt and its carrier strike group are deployed to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations in support of maritime security operations to reassure allies and partners and preserve the freedom of navigation and the free flow of commerce in the region. (MC3 Alex Corona/Navy)
Air Force Col. Paul Zurkowski, a pilot assigned to the 104th Fighter Squadron, is sprayed by family members March 3rd, 2018, after his fini flight at Warfield Air National Guard Base, Middle River, Md. Spraying pilots with fire hoses and champagne is part of a tradition that celebrates a pilot’s fini flight, or final flight, with their unit or on a certain aircraft. (A1C Sarah M. McClanahan/Air Force)
In efforts to begin rescue missions with civilian and state entities, Idaho's 124th Air Support Operations Squadron (ASOS) conducted their first ever training event that involved approximately 70 civilians from local rescue teams. ASOS, specifically Tactical Air Control Party (TACP) Airmen, have extensive outdoor training, survival skills, and the equipment for helping search and rescue teams, which were showcased during avalanche rescue training, snowmobile training, sling load training, and stretcher hoist rescue training of lost persons with the 1-183rd Aviation Battalion's UH-72 Lakota Rescue Helicopters on March 1-4, 2018 in Cascade, Idaho. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Becky Vanshur/released)
Marines with Weapons Company, 3rd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division brace for an explosion during a breaching exercise on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson (JBER), Ala., March 1, 2018. Marines with Kilo Co. conduct squad attacks during ISBC for Arctic Edge-18 in order to enhance readiness and combat effectiveness in an extreme cold weather environment. (Lance Cpl. Tanner Seims/Marines)
Pfc. Ryan Oliver, a Denver, Colorado native and a wheeled vehicle mechanic with the 82nd Brigade Engineer Battalion, 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, jumps into a lake during cold-water immersion training with the U.K. 1st Royal Welsh Battalion in Tapa, Estonia on March 7, 2018 as part of an rapid response readiness exercise in support of Atlantic Resolve. The 2nd ABCT demonstrates readiness by training and exercising it’s ability to quickly mass, mobilize and perform it’s warfighting functions with NATO allies and by building and displaying maximum proficiency in its capabilities. (Spc. Hubert D. Delany III/Army)
Spc. Logan Muir, a Bowie, Maryland native and a wheeled vehicle mechanic with the 82nd Brigade Engineer Battalion, 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, completes cold-water immersion training with the U.K. 1st Royal Welsh Battalion in Tapa, Estonia on March 7, 2018 as part of a rapid response readiness exercise in support of Atlantic Resolve. T(Spc. Hubert D. Delany III/Army)
Chief Master-at-Arms Adam Turner, left, from Floyd, Va., takes the runner sash from Chief Air Traffic Controller Stephanie Breault, from Dracut, Mass., during the biennial Ekiden relay race at Naval Air Facility Atsugi. The Ekiden was hosted by Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Air Patrol Squadron 3 to foster teamwork and cooperation between the various commands on the installation. (MC2 Matthew C. Duncker/Navy)
U.S. Army Pvt. Daniel Nieves with Archer Battery, Field Artillery Regiment, 2d Cavalry Regiment carries propellant charges for M777 Howitzers during Exercise Dynamic Front 18 at the U.S. Army’s Grafenwoehr Training Area (Germany), March 08, 2018. Exercise Dynamic Front 18 includes approximately 3,700 participants from 26 nations at the U.S. Army’s Grafenwoehr Training Area (Germany), Feb. 23-March 10, 2018. Dynamic Front is an annual U.S. Army Europe (USAREUR) exercise focused on the interoperability of U.S. Army, joint service and allied nation artillery and fire support in a multinational environment, from theater-level headquarters identifying targets to gun crews pulling lanyards in the field. (Gertrud Zach/Army)
