In this photo taken Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2015, Marines participate in the 33rd annual Mud Operations at the Nu'upia Ponds Wildlife Management Area in Kaneohe, Hawaii. The Kaneohe Bay Marines mounted their heavily armed amphibious assault vehicles and zipped and romped their way around the base's Nuupia Ponds mud flats. In doing so, the 26-ton battle machines kicked up heavy showers of mud as some ride-along passengers held on like they were riding a mechanical bull. (AP Photo/Honloulu Star-Advertiser, Craig T. Kojima)
A Humvee with a makeshift slingshot used to remove snow and ice from an aerostat is seen February 4, 2015 at the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland. The Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System (JLENS) uses traditional technologies like radar while overcoming limitations by deploying the sensors in the air using a pair of tethered blimps. AFP PHOTO/BRENDAN SMIALOWSKIBRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images
A Philippine Marine posts security after fast-roping out of an MV-22B Osprey tiltrotor aircraft Jan. 22 at Basa Air Field. Fast-roping is just one of the multiple training events conducted during Aviation Assault Support Exercise 15.1. AASE expands and promotes cooperative training opportunities with the Armed Forces of the Philippines to enhance core skill proficiency and to increase operational readiness. The Philippine Marines are with various units and the U.S. Marines are with 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment currently assigned to 3rd Marine Division, III Marine Expeditionary Force under the unit deployment program. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Ryan C. Mains/Released).
U.S. Soldiers, assigned to 173rd Airborne Brigade, attend the 7th Army Joint Multinational Training Command’s Combined Arms Training Center‘s Counter-Improvised Explosive Device (C-IED) Train the Trainer (T3) Course at Rose Barracks, Vilseck, Germany, Feb. 4, 2015. The purpose of the C-IED T3 Course is to train selected personnel for unit-led IED defeat training. With a highly-trained cadre of IED defeat instructors to conduct unit training, commanders can be confident that soldiers in their command will have a better understanding of how IEDs are deployed, how to identify potential IED sites, and the tactics, techniques, and procedures required before, during, and after an IED event. (U.S. Army photo by Visual Information Specialist Gertrud Zach/released)
Sgt. Darren Westmoreland, military working dog handler, K-9 unit, Provost Marshal’s Office, pulls Colli, MWD, PMO, off Staff Sgt. Charlie Hardesty, kennel master, K-9 unit, PMO, as he serves as a simulated perpetrator, during a demonstration at Joshua Tree Elementary School Jan. 29, 2015. Colli and Baby were the two MWDs used for the demonstration to show the kids the different types of tasks the dogs are capable of. (Official Marine Corps Photo by Lance Cpl. Julio McGraw/Released)
U.S. Navy Fire Controlman 3rd Class Adam Brown, assigned to the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Halsey, reunites with his wife, Alyssa Brown, after returning home from a seven-month deployment to the Western Pacific Jan. 5, 2015, at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii. The nearly 280 Sailors assigned to the USS Halsey conducted various theater security operations, readiness training, community relations projects, escort support and good will activities with partner nations during their deployment to the Western Pacific. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Christopher Hubenthal)
U.S. Marines with Combat Logistics Detachment 1, Combat Logistics Battalion 13, 1st Marine Logistics Group, practice "combat gliding" during Integrated Training Exercise 2-15 at Camp Wilson on Twentynine Palms, California, Jan. 31, 2015. ITX 2-15, executed by Special Purpose Marine Air Ground Task Force 4, is conducted to enhance the integration and warfighting capability of all elements of the Marine Air Ground Task Force. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Kathryn Howard/Released)
Two Bangladesh F-7BG Defenders, a BAF C-130B Hercules, and two U.S. Air Force C-130H Hercules aircraft prepare to take off from BAF Base Bangabandhu, Bangladesh, during Exercise COPE SOUTH Jan. 28, 2015. The U.S. C-130H is assigned to the 374th Airlift Wing, Yokota Air base, Japan; the BAF F-7BGs are assigned to 5th Squadron and the BAF C-130B is assigned to 101st Special Flying Unit at BAF Base Bangabandhu. COPE SOUTH is a Pacific Air Forces-sponsored, bilateral tactical airlift exercise conducted in Bangladesh, with a focus on cooperative flight operations, day and night low-level navigation, tactical airdrop, and air-land missions as well as subject-matter expert exchanges in the fields of operations, maintenance and rigging disciplines. (Courtesy photo by Bangladesh Air Force)
U.S. Army paratroopers from Company C, 1st Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade, move towards an objective Feb. 4, 2015, during training at Longare Complex, Vicenza, Italy. The 173rd Airborne is the Army’s Contingency Response Force in Europe, capable of rapidly projecting forces in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. (U.S. Army image by Visual Information Specialist Paolo Bovo/Released)
A U.S. Marine with Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 462, Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, Calif., kneels on the ramp of a CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter during Integrated Training Exercise 2-15 at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms (MCAGCC), Calif., Feb. 4, 2015. MCAGCC conducts relevant live-fire combined arms training, urban operations, and Joint/Coalition level integration training that promotes operational forces readiness. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Matthew Smith/Released)
A flight crew from Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak, Alaska, shares stories of their missions and experiences with students from Academy Charter School in Palmer Jan. 29, 2015. The children also had the opportunity to sit inside an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter during the visit. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Shawn Eggert.
Staff Sgt. John Freeseha, instructor and instructor with the Animal Packers Course, begins singing the Marine’s Hymn after completing a plunge into freezing water during an Ice-Breaker Drill as part of Winter Mountain Leaders Course 1-15 at Levitt Lake, Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center, Bridgeport, California, Jan. 30, 2015. It was the first time in approximately three years since the drill was conducted at MCMWTC. (Official Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Charles Santamaria/Released)
U.S. Marines assigned to Delta Company, 1st Tanks Battalion, 1st Marine Division, wake up the morning of the Tank Mechanized Assault Course during Integrated Training Exercise (ITX) 2-15 at the Delta Prospect Training Area aboard Camp Wilson, Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, Calif., Feb. 1, 2015. ITX 2-15, being executed by Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force 4 (SPMAGTF-4), is being conducted to enhance the integration and warfighting capability from all elements of the MAGTF. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Aaron S. Patterson, MCBH Combat Camera/Released)
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