A blanket of green smoke sweeps by as an instructor watches infantrymen with Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, provide fire suppression during a platoon attack at Range 410A on Marine Corps Air Ground Combat...
Members of 3rd Platoon, Alpha Battery, 1st Battalion, 77th Field Artillery Regiment, 172nd Infantry Brigade, work at dislodging their M-777 155 mm howitzer from the three-foot deep hole it dug its spades into after firing...
Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus speaks during at a press conference at Naval Air Station Patuxent River about the U.S. Navy flight demonstration team, the Blue Angels, conducting demonstration flights with a 50-50 mix of...
Scott Tolzien, Chargers’ back-up quarterback, falls back for a pass today at the Miramar Youth Sports Complex. The event brought performances from the Charger Girls followed by the Chargers’ football players practicing,...
The aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) departs Naval Station Norfolk ahead of Hurricane Irene. Vice Adm. Daniel Holloway, commander of U.S. 2nd Fleet, ordered all ships in the Hampton Roads area to set...
Seaman Haley Kurkowski prepares to fire a messenger line to the Military Sealift Command fleet replenishment ship USNS Yukon from the San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship USS New Orleans during a replenishment...
U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Andre Pegues of Fayetteville, N.C., a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crew chief with Company C, 3rd General Support Aviation Battalion, 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division, waves during...
USS John C. Stennis action
Seaman Lynn Adrian, from Harris, Minn., wipes down an F/A-18F Super Hornet assigned to the Black Aces of Strike Fighter Squadron 41 aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis....
Airman 1st Class Jason Vanover, 5th Munitions Squadron maintenance crew member, helps to assemble unguided conventional bombs during a practice run for the second annual Air Force Global Strike Command Global Strike...
Recruit Philip Pinckney listens to his fellow recruits' concerns during the Crucible, July 29, at Page Field here. Pinckney, a graduate of The Citadel military college, gave the recruits advice on how to manage their...
Sailors prepare to launch an F/A-18C Hornet assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 15 aboard the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77). George H.W. Bush is deployed to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility...
Marines assigned to the Death Rattlers of Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 323 move ordnance aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan is conducting operations supporting maritime security operations and...
Amphibious assault vehicles drive along Red Beach here en route to an urban training town June 19 during the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit's two-week field exercise. The vehicles carried Marines and sailors of Battalion...
Competitors warm up before the APFT at the Army Reserve Best Warrior Competition at Fort McCoy, Wis., Monday, June 20, 2011.
Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Marisol Hernandez
Sailors perform maintenance on deck edge doors of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis. The John C. Stennis Carrier Strike Group is participating in a joint task force exercise off the coast of Southern...
The U.S. Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron Thunderbirds fly the Diamond formation during Air Show Turkiye 2011 at Cigli Air Base, June 5. The Thunderbirds performed alongside other world renowned aerial demonstration...
Personnel assigned to the Spanish navy submarine SKS Galerna climb up to the U.S. Navy Submarine Rescue Diving and Recompression System's Pressurized Rescue Module, Falcon, during an underwater rescue exercise. Participants...
Lance Cpl. Orlando Tovar, a squad automatic rifleman with Company Charlie, 1st Battalion, 23rd Marine Regiment, Task Force Belleau Wood, patrols the streets of Zaranj during a visit from Maj. Gen. John A. Toolan, commanding...
Soldiers from the 21st Theater Sustainment Command’s 5th Quartermasters Detachment prepare to march as the French Army Band passes by during a dedication ceremony at the Signal Monument in St. Mere Eglise, France, June 6....
North Dakota National Guard members working at the Raging Rivers sandbag site in Mandan, N.D., along with civilians loading sandbags from the site, remove their hats and bow their hands for a minute of silence at 3 p.m. May...
Water floods areas along the Souris River Basin near Minot, N.D. June 2. The Corps of Engineers is currently reinforcing levees within the city of Minot and other communities along the river to protect citizens from this...
Lance Cpl. Richard Carr, a Marine Attack Squadron 513 airframe mechanic and Durham, N.C., native, sprays the underside of one of the squadron's AV-8B Harriers at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, June 3. Keeping Harriers free...