Sailors qualify on the M240 machine gun aboard the guided-missile destroyer Forrest Sherman Sept. 17 during the Canadian-led exercise Cutlass Fury off the coast of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. (MCSN Theoplis Stewart II/Navy)
Army Sgt. 1st Class Jesse Robbins and Staff Sgt. Morgan George, members of the Army's parachute demonstration team, the Golden Knights, perform during the Pacific Airshow in Huntington Beach, Calif., Sept. 30. (Megan Hackett/Army)
Randi Devers, 23rd Civil Engineer Squadron Fire and Emergency Services driver, descends into a hole during a confined space extraction exercise at Moody Air Force Base, Ga., Sept. 20. (Staff Sgt. Devin Boyer/Air Force)
Members of Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 211 load a GBU-49 onto an F-35B Lightning II aboard HMS Queen Elizabeth in the Western Pacific Ocean Sept. 12. VMFA-211 is deployed as part of the United Kingdom’s Carrier Strike Group 21. (Lt. Zachary Bodner/Marine Corps)
Tech. Sgt. Tyler Betz, 18th Civil Engineer Squadron barrier maintenance shift lead, loads rubber spacers onto a donut loader on the flightline at Kadena Air Base, Japan, Sept. 21. The donut loader presses rubber spacers onto the arresting cable to hold it in position for an aircraft to hook. (Staff Sgt. Kyle Johnson/Air Force)
Marine Pfc. Kenneth Slizewski, left, and Pfc. Jason Ditzel, with 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, fire an 81mm mortar on Camp Lejeune, N.C., Sept. 28 during Exercise Burmese Chase, a U.S.-led multilateral exercise that includes training on integration of ground and air fires, infantry tactics and naval gunfire alongside NATO allies and partners. (Lance Cpl. Deja Thomas/Marine Corps)
A U.S. Air Force C-130J Super Hercules prepares to land at Powidz, Poland, during an annual rodeo event during Aviation Rotation Detachment 21-4 Sept. 25. (Airman Edgar Grimaldo/Air Force)
The amphibious assault ship Essex and the dry cargo and ammunition ship USNS Wally Schirra transit the Strait of Hormuz. The Essex Amphibious Ready Group is deployed to U.S. 5th Fleet. (Sgt. Alexis Flores/Marine Corps)
Army Green Berets with 1st Battalion, 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne), ascend a cave wall during a basic military mountaineering course in Okinawa, Japan, Sept. 7. (Army)
Aviation Boatswain’s Mate (Equipment) 3rd Class Kemani Morson directs aircraft on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan in the Philippine Sea Sept. 29. (MC3 Gray Gibson/Navy)
