Image 0 of 10Marines with 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines, load a CH-53E Super Stallion during Jungle Warfare, a large-scale field training exercise on Camp Schwab, Okinawa, Japan, Feb. 15, 2022. (Cpl. Jackson Dukes/Marine Corps) Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Jake Sampson, assigned to the amphibious assault ship Makin Island, rides aboard an MH-60S Seahawk helicopter over the Pacific Ocean, Feb. 9, 2022. (MCS2 Jacob D. Bergh/Navy) Soldiers assigned to 2nd Battalion, 12th Field Artillery Regiment, 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, hold on to the cargo during a sling load operations training exercise with a Chinook helicopter, Feb. 9, 2022, at Fort Carson, Colorado. (Scyrrus Corregidor/Army) An Oklahoma Air National Guardsman uses a red light as a signal during night vision training in Oklahoma City, Feb. 10, 2022. (Tech. Sgt. Brigette Waltermire/Air National Guard) The Blue Angels, the Navy’s flight demonstration squadron, fly over the aircraft carrier Carl Vinson as it arrives at its homeport of San Diego following an eight-month deployment to the Indo-Pacific region, Feb. 14, 2022. (MCS2 Haydn N. Smith/Navy) U.S. and Italian soldiers ascend a mountain during Steel Blizzard, a multinational mountain and arctic warfare training exercise, in Usseaux, Italy, Feb. 15, 2022. (Staff Sgt. John Yountz/Army) Marine Corps Cpl. Alex Ray, with Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, crosses a creek during a tactical hike for a mountain exercise at Fola Mine, West Virginia, Feb. 10, 2022. (Lance Cpl. Ryan Ramsammy/Marine Corps) A airman descends over Malemute Drop Zone during airborne training at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Feb. 10, 2022. (Airman 1st Class Julia Lebens/Air Force) Two sailors heave line on the flight deck of the littoral combat ship Milwaukee as the ship arrives in Ocho Rios, Jamaica, for a brief stop for fuel and provisions, Feb. 8, 2022. (MCS2 Danielle Baker/Navy) Army Brig. Gen. Paul Craft, commanding general of Task Force Pickett, and Marine Corps Col. Quintin Jones, commanding officer of the 23rd Marine Regiment, wave goodbye to Afghan evacuees departing Safe Haven Pickett at Fort Pickett, Va., Feb. 1, 2022. This group of evacuees are the final to leave the safe haven and are settling in various communities across the United States. (MCS John Pearl/Navy)
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