Combat Exercise Activities

Dynamic training exercises featuring troops in simulated combat, focusing on tactical movements, coordination, and use of weaponry in various environments.

Marine Aircraft Group 49 is a United States Marine Corps Reserve aviation unit that is based at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey. This Marine Units reinforce the Active Marine Forces during war time, national emergencies and contingency operations throughout the world. They provide personnel and assault support for active-duty forces. They are here on the Fort Dix Range Complex at Range27A during an M18 Pistol Instructional Firearms Training (Images are provided by the Fort Dix (TSC) Training Support Center / Daniel Amburg)

A U.S. Soldier of 1st Battalion, 4th Infantry Regiment assaults an objective while conducting a raid during exercise Combined Resolve VII at the U.S. Armys Joint Multinational Readiness Center in Hohenfels Germany, Sept. 6, 2016. Combined Resolve VII is a 7th Army Training Command, U.S. Army Europe-directed exercise, taking place at the Grafenwoehr and Hohenfels Training Areas, Aug. 8 to Sept. 15, 2016. The exercise is designed to train the Armys regionally allocated forces to the U.S. European Command. Combined Resolve VII includes more than 3,500 participants from 16 NATO and European partner nations.

Leaders of the 79th Infantry Brigade Combat Team participate in a combined arms rehearsal at Joint Readiness Training Center, Fort Polk, Louisiana, July 27, 2022. The rehearsal is a military practice that ensures subordinate plans are synchronized with those of other units and the plans achieve the intent of the higher Commander.

SINGAPORE - U.S. Army Infantry Soldiers from the 1-2 Stryker Brigade Combat Team out of Joint Base Lewis McChord, Washington participate in a Field Training Exercise (FTX) during Exercise Tiger Balm 2022 here, June 15, 2022. The Annual Tiger Balm Exercise showcases and shares several different training events and activities, including the Field Training Exercise (FTX).

U.S. Marines with 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2d Marine Division, conduct a live-fire range during a Marine Corps Combat Readiness Evaluation on Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, Oct. 4, 2022. The purpose of a MCCRE is to formally evaluate the units combat readiness in preparation for deployment.

U.S. Marines with 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2d Marine Division, conduct a live-fire range during a Marine Corps Combat Readiness Evaluation on Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, Oct. 4, 2022. The purpose of a MCCRE is to formally evaluate the units combat readiness in preparation for deployment.

Marine Aircraft Group 49 is a United States Marine Corps Reserve aviation unit that is based at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey. This Marine Units reinforce the Active Marine Forces during war time, national emergencies and contingency operations throughout the world. They provide personnel and assault support for active-duty forces. They are here on the Fort Dix Range Complex at Range27A during an M18 Pistol Instructional Firearms Training (Images are provided by the Fort Dix (TSC) Training Support Center / Daniel Amburg)

Soldiers from the 940th Movement Control Team get into defensive positions and scan for opposing forces during a perimeter defense scenario at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin, July 25, 2022. The scenario was one of many iterations and exercises that make up Warrior Exercise (WAREX) 782202, designed to enhance Soldier readiness and maintain a lethal fighting force by practicing Army Warrior Tasks and drills.

Soldiers of Squad 7, representing U.S. Army Reserve, conduct hot load training with a UH-60 Black Hawk during the Army's first-ever Best Squad Competition held on Fort Bragg, North Carolina, Oct. 3, 2022. The Army Best Squad Competition tests Soldiers on their individual and collective ability to adapt to and overcome challenging scenarios and battle-readiness events, evaluating their physical endurance, technical skills, and tactical abilities under stress and extreme fatigue.

Pfc. Trevor Surico-Pink, left, and Spc. Daniel Johnson, assigned to B Company, 2nd Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, move down a walkway while clearing building during urban operations training as part of Exercise Cartwheel near Nadi, Fiji, September 15, 2022. Exercise Cartwheel is a multilateral military-to-military training exercise with the U.S., Republic of Fiji Military, Australian, New Zealand, and British forces that builds expeditionary readiness and interoperability by increasing the capacity to face a crisis and contingencies by developing and stressing units at the highest training levels.

Technical Sgt. Corban Lundborg, an airman with the 4th Combat Camera Squadron, conducts close-quarter battle (CQB) training July 12, 2022, at the Naval Weapons Station, Joint Base Base Charleston, SC. During this event airmen conducted refresher training on effective room-clearing techniques, designed to ensure team members are capable of integrating with combat teams while providing combat camera capabilities.4th Combat Camera Squadron's mission is to provide senior Department of Defense and joint leaders with a directed imagery capability in support of strategic, operational and planning requirements during wartime operations, worldwide crises, contingencies, joint exercises and humanitarian operations.Photos by Technical Sgt. Christopher S Muncy

New York Army National Guard Spc. Christian Leenhouts (in focus) with the 2nd Squadron 101st Cavalry, 27th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 42nd Infantry Division, and other service members competed in the 26th Annual Marksmanship Advisory Council Region One (MAC1) Combat Championships held at Camp Ethan Allen Training Site in Jericho, August 19-21, 2022. The MAC1 provides a combat focused marksmanship sustainment training event and competition for all the states in New England and New York. These matches are the second priority in the Chief of the National Guard Bureaus guidance for sustainment training events. The matches are operational focused marksmanship sustainment exercises, designed to validate and sustain perishable marksmanship skills essential to mobilization readiness and success.

Soldiers of the 730th Area Support Medical Company, South Dakota Army National Guard, run to their next squad lane during the 152nd Combat Sustainment Support Battalions first annual Best Squad Competition at Dakota Nature Park in Brookings, S.D., Sept. 11, 2022. The competition challenged seven squads of soldiers from each of the 152nd's associated units mentally, physically and technically using multiple tasks focused on core-level soldier skills.

Sgt. Matthew Fiore, a UH-60 helicopter repairer with Alpha Company of the 1st batallion, 171st Avaition Regiment, carries kettlebells during the stress shoot event in the Region 3 Army National Guard Best Warrior Competition held at Camp Blanding Joint Training Center, Fla., on May 9th, 2022. Soldiers in the Army National Guard gather to compete, build esprit de corps, and represent their respective states for the upcoming national competition.

On Range 47B on the Fort Dix Range Complex the soldiers from the 508th MP Company are completing the M240B Machine Gun Qualification. Qualification with the M240B machine gun Crew consists of achieving the minimum standards for 10-meter day and transition day firing tables. This qualification is completed with a team which includes an observer and a soldier manning the M240 machine gun. (Photos taken by the Fort Dix TSC Training Support Center)

Soldiers fire their pistols down range as part of the annual "TAG Match" shooting competition on July 24th, 2022 at Wendell H. Ford Training Center.

MONROE, La. ñ Louisiana Army National Guardsmen Sgt. Matthew B. Sellers of Lafayette, La., and Staff Sgt. Jamie L. Eppinette of Bastrop, La., sprint to secure their ammunition during the Machine Gun Prisoner-of-War team competition at the Winston P. Wilson Matches, held at the Marksmanship Training Center at Camp Joseph T. Robinson in Little Rock, Ark., Oct. 13-16. Louisiana finished in fifth place overall in the annual national competition.

(CAMP SHELBY, Miss.) --- Alabama National Guard Assistant Adjunct General Maj. Gen. Jerry Martin observes Soldiers with the 1166th Military Police Company training on the M240B machine gun, July 22, 2022. This was one of many units Martin visited during their annual training.

Maj. Jennifer Baker, Brigade S4 (left), speaks with Capt. Johnson Lam, assistant Brigade S2, coordinating actions between logistics with intelligence in the brigade's sustainment rehearsal at Rodriguez Live Fire Complex, Republic of Korea, on May 12, 2022; the sustainment rehearsal's purpose was to synchronize the brigade's actions during the exercise, providing effective training to the unit. Soldiers from across the 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team Ready First, 1st Armored Division (the current 2nd Infantry Division (ROK-US Combined Division) rotational brigade) participated in the Warrior Ready Strike training exercise to increase their proficiency, learn about operating in the Republic of Korea, and re-affirm the commitment to the ROK-US Alliance.

U.S. Marines with 8th Engineer Support Battalion, Combat Logistics Regiment 27, set a tripwire obstacle during Summer Pioneer 2022 on Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, July 20, 2022. Summer Pioneer 2022 is a naval engineering exercise demonstrating integrated U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Navy formations to establish and sustain Expeditionary Advanced Bases and Maritime Domain Awareness.

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Matthew Miele, a Brick, New Jersey native, and a rifleman with 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2d Marine Division, provides security during a Marine Corps Combat Readiness Evaluation (MCCRE) on Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, Oct. 6, 2022. The purpose of a MCCRE is to formally evaluate the units combat readiness in preparation for deployment.

U.S. Army Soldiers participating in Jungle School perform medical evacuation and jungle penetrator training at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, on Sept. 22, 2022. Jungle students learned how to load a casualty onto the HH-60M Blackhawk correctly and were shown how the jungle penetrator works.

Sgt. First Class Richard Trcka, Czech army, practices the kneeling position for the M-4 qualifying event during the Texas Military Department Best Warrior Competition at Camp Swift, Texas, March 31, 2023. The friendly, six-day competition challenges service members on professional military knowledge, marksmanship, obstacle course and land navigation.

U.S. Army spur candidates assigned to the 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, pick up their mission-oriented protective posture suit during a chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear training lane at Drawsko Pomorskie, Poland, June 25, 2022. Soldiers from various units participated in a Spur Ride, a challenging event where physical fitness and teamwork are needed to emerge and earn their spurs.

The New Jersey Army National Guard 114th Infantry Regiment and 150th Aviation Regiment conduct air assault insertion and company attack at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., Feb. 10, 2023. This exercise trained on warrior tasks and demonstrated combat capabilities in preparation for Joint Regional Training Center Rotation May 2023.

U.S. Marines with 7th Communication Battalion, III Marine Expeditionary Force Information Group, engage simulated enemy forces at the Jungle Warfare Training Center, Camp Gonsalves, Okinawa, Japan, May 26, 2022. Marines with 7th Comm. Bn took part in a Basic Jungle Survival Skills course conducted May 22-27 to prepare for jungle operations. III MIG functions as the vanguard of III MEF, operating in the Indo-Pacific regions information environment, and supports Marine Air Ground Task Force operations with communications, intelligence, and supporting arms liaison capabilities.

1st Lt. Harvey Situ, from Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), drags a 90 lb. skedco to the next obstacle during the Week of the Eagles Stress Shoot Competition May 23, Fort Campbell, Ky. The stress shoot competition consisted of eight different teams competing to see which team could be the fastest at clearing the course while also being the most accurate.

Soldiers from the 4th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary) are competing in the 2022 U.S. Army Reserve Small Arms Championship from Sept. 11 thru Sept. 17 on Camp Robinson, N. Little Rock, Arkansas.ARROWS FORWARD to 1st Lt. Chance Hernandez, Master Sgt. Jason Lee, and Sgt. Robert Flores from San Antonio, Texas, and Staff Sgt. Cameron L. MacDonnell from Huntsville, Texas.The competition is a live-fire training event that tests Soldiers ability to employ both primary and secondary weapon systems. The program is designed to develop marksmanship skills at the entry and intermediate level.If shooting weapons, building relationships that can last a lifetime, and getting paid sounds good to you, click the link to sign up and learn more.https://armyreservemarksman.info/newsletter/BIG THANKS to the 143rd Sustainment Command (Expeditionary) for helping with coverage.

From left, Staff Sgt. Joseph Wyner, Tech. Sgt. Michael Strempfer, Staff Sgt. David Fostier, and Capt. Patrick Randall of New Hampshire National Guard's "Team Alpha" blaze through a pistol match during the 51st Winston P. Wilson Pistol and Rifle Championships on March 31, 2022, at Camp Robinson, Arkansas. Two, four-man squads of NHNG Soldiers and Airmen competed against shooters from around the world during the weeklong event. The group placed ninth out of 47 qualifying teams. U.S. Air National Guard photo by Tech. Sgt. Charles Johnston.

U.S. Marine Corps Combat Skills Program (CSP) participants execute a live fire range on Camp Devil Dog in Jacksonville, North Carolina, June 9, 2022. The CSP included training in convoy operations, patrolling, creating skirmish holes, and live fire ranges to reinstate the combat mindset that every Marine is a rifleman.

Cadets from 1st Regiment, Advanced Camp participate in situational training exercise lanes and a grenade range during Cadet Summer Training on Fort Knox, Ky., June 8, 2022. Cadets were trained on proper throwing form and tested on their ability to react to various field scenarios.

U.S. Army Soldiers from Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division carry a mock wounded soldier out of harms way during a simulated fire fight as part of a mission readiness exercise at Fort Stewart, Ga., Feb. 28, 2007. The 3rd ID is conducting training with the assistance from observer controller teams from the National Training Center in preparation for a future deployment.

Members from the 221st and 239th Combat Communications Squadrons practice Tactical Combat Casualty Care maneuvers during Exercise BUMBU 22 at Camp Shelby, Miss., June 5, 2022. BUMBU 22 brings five combat communications squadrons with the 254th Combat Communications Group from their home stations located across the nation together for a consolidated training exercise. (Air National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Adrian Brakeley)

Soldiers assigned to Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 113th Infantry Regiment, 44th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, New Jersey Army National Guard conduct a Live Fire Exercise on July 12, 2022 at the eXportable Combat Training Capability (XCTC) exercise at Fort Drum, New York. More than 2,500 Soldiers are participating in the training event, which enables brigade combat teams to achieve the trained platoon readiness necessary to deploy, fight, and win.

U.S. Army Soldiers assigned to the 14th Field Hospital, 44th Medical Brigade, assemble in the living support area after an aerial movement to their validation field exercise at Fort Stewart, Georgia Sept. 7, 2022. The 14th FH validation exercise ensures that their Soldiers are ready to deploy expeditionary role three medical capabilities anytime and anywhere they are needed.

U.S. Army Reserve Soldiers with the 412th Civil Affairs Battalion conduct sustained airborne training during Operation Viking at Joint Base Cape Cod, Mass., July 19, 2022. Operation Viking is an intense joint task force exercise designed to prepare soldiers with realistic training simulating deployment of civil affairs units in direct support of a contingency operation in Africa.

U.S. Airmen take cover behind a barrier during a Shoot-Move-Communicate exercise during the 325th Fighter Wing Augmentation Program at Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, May 20, 2022. SMC training is meant to train Airmen how to use small unit tactics and communication amongst team members while navigating a small range or obstacle course.

Combat engineers with the 116th Brigade Engineer Battalion participated in their annual training of demolition and explosive breaching through doors and wall structures on May 6, 2022. Combat engineers provide support of mobility, counter mobility and survivability for Soldiers within the 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team during combat missions. Our job is to make sure that we proficiently enable our combat personnel to move from point A to point B, said Sgt. 1st Class Robert Smith, platoon sergeant with the 116th BEB. Counter mobility is to keep the enemy from moving forward, so that we can move forward with our mission. We go in and get the good guys if they are trapped or we go in where there are bad guys behind a door, and it is imperative we do this safely with maximum survivability.

U.S. Marines with 2d Battalion, 10th Marine Regiment, 2d Marine Division, call in coordinates for the notional fire of a High Mobility Artillery Rocket System as part of a HIMARS rapid infiltration drill during exercise Rolling Thunder on North Auxiliary Airfield, South Carolina Oct. 20, 2022. Rolling Thunder is a two-week training exercise that is conducted with the integration of French Artillerymen from 3d RAMa to increase 2d MarDivs combat readiness against a peer competitor through employing fires via simulated EABs.

FORT HOOD, Texas - U.S. Army Soldiers representing U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command, maneuver their training mannequin through an obstacle at the Medical Simulation Training Center, Fort Hood, Texas, August 18, 2022. These Soldiers represent the best in the U.S. Army Forces Command.

Officer Trainee conducts expeditionary skills training at U.S. Air Force Officer Training School, Feb 26, 2024. OTS develops Warrior-Minded Leaders of Character committed to oath, values, and creed of the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force. Air Force

U.S. Army Spc. Zechariah Musselman, an Army plumber assigned to the 136th Engineer Company, Maine Army National Guard, disassembles an M249 Squad Automatic Weapon at Stones Ranch Military Reservation, East Lyme, Connecticut, May 10, 2022. The M249 fulfills the squad automatic weapon role, providing an infantry squad with a high volume, accurate, sustained fire automatic weapon that can be carried and employed by a single soldier.

The 87th Mission Support Group provides expeditionary combat and base support and leadership across JB MDL. These 87th CES (Civil Engineer Sqadron) are on the Fort Dix Range Complex at the CACTF located on Range 59E completing their Urban Operations Training. This training for urban operations trains soldiers to prepare on shooting and breaching small buildings. (Photos taken by the Fort Dix TSC Training Support Center)

Providers assigned to the Special Troops Battalion, 82nd Airborne Division conduct set up and security operations on Fort Bragg, NC, March 28, 2022. The Field Training Exercise ensures Paratroopers stand ready to fight, win, and meet the 18 hour deployment standard.

U.S. Army soldier Spc. Aiden Gallo-Murphy with the 412th Alpha Company qualifies with his m4 at the qualification course, during Operation Viking at Joint Base Cape Cod, Mass., July 23, 2022. Operation Viking is an intense joint task force exercise designed to prepare Soliders with realistic training simulating deployment of civil affairs units in direct support of a contingency operation in Africa.

Soldiers from across the 101st Division Artillery Brigade, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), compete in the culminating event of the Division Artillerys Best of the Best competition on Fort Campbell, Ky., October 21, 2022. Soldiers from across the brigade competed in numerous different competitive events to win the competition.

An Iowa Army National Guard Soldier assigned to Company B, 1st Battalion, 133rd Infantry Regiment, observes as members of the Kosovo Security Force conduct a wedge formation live-fire exercise at Camp Atterbury, Indiana, on May 19, 2022. Approximately 15 KSF troops embedded with companies in the 1-133rd Infantry during a two-week annual training exercise. The KSF Soldiers conducted the live-fire exercise with two other U.S. infantrymen. Senior leaders in the IANG and KSF visited each company near the end of the exercise to observe the full integration of KSF troops and recognize Soldiers who demonstrated excellence throughout their training. The tour was also an opportunity for KSF leaders to gain a more comprehensive understanding of IANG training requirements, equipment and logistics.

Instructors with the United States Military Academy learn how to properly stage a claymore mine for Civilian Military Experience (CME) at Camp Buckner in West Point, NY on June 2, 2022. Civilian Staff and faculty support the USMA Mission to create commissioned leaders of character and are responsible for contributing a culture of character growth. The CME provides civilian faculty an immersive military training experience that resembles cadet field training in order to provide shared understanding of the demands of cadet life and Army leadership.

U.S. Air Force Airmen assigned to the 35th Security Forces Squadron simulated a hot pad perimeter breach and securing Agile Combat Employment (ACE) assets during Exercise Beverly Sunrise 22-06 at Misawa Air Base, Japan, Aug. 30, 2022. The exercise is part of an effort to incorporate ACE, a proactive and reactive operational scheme of maneuver executed within threat timelines to increase survivability, and continue to generate combat power despite enemy attempts at saturation attacks on forward airfields.

U.S. Army 1st Lt. Brentten Wiley, a military intelligence officer assigned to the 37th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, loads a magazine into his M4A1 carbine at Camp Grayling, Michigan, Aug. 25, 2022. Soldiers from the 37th IBCT conducted the new M4A1 qualification course of fire, which sees Soldiers challenged by the integration of support barriers, unprompted magazine reloading, and a variety of position changes to better ensure they are prepared and ready to face combat.

Soldiers with the 370th Chemical Company participate in weapons qualifications on ranges at Fort McCoy, Wis., as part of the Red Dragon exercise in August, 2022. U.S. Army photo by Kevin W. Clark

Airmen from the 171st Air Refueling Wing and the 911th Airlift Wing take part in a Combat Lifesaver Course, May 15, 2022, near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The students were run through a series of realistic trauma scenarios using tactical maneuvers to approach casualties then provide frontline life-saving medical treatment.

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Staff Sgt. David Greenwood, a Defender assigned to the 926th Security Forces Squadron, based at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, instructs a fireteam of Defenders from the 403rd Security Forces Squadron stationed at Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi, during a move, shoot, communicate course, May 13, 2022, at Camp James A. Garfield Joint Military Training Center, Ohio. The event was part of the two-week Integrated Defense Leadership Course, based at Youngstown Air Reserve Station, Ohio, and using training grounds at CJAG. IDLC was designed to provide Reserve Defenders with intensely focused hands-on training to achieve and maintain combat readiness. Greenwood was an IDLC student in February 2022 before becoming a cadre member. (U.S. Air Force photo/Eric M. White)

U.S. Marines with the Maritime Special Purpose Force, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit practice different positions on barricades during a Close Quarters Tactics (CQT) course at Stone Bay, North Carolina, Sept. 20, 2022. CQT consists of day and night live-fire training in a close quarters environment with explosive and ballistic breaching tactics, techniques, and procedures. The CQT course builds upon the MSPF's current capabilities and ensures the unit is capable of supporting MEU Mission Essential Tasks (METs).

U.S. Army Sgt. Kyle Black, a convoy commander with Charlie Company, 2nd Battalion, 121st Infantry Regiment, sets up a defensive position while directing vehicles in his resupply convoy, en route to provide support to objective Cobra during eXportable Combat Training Capabilities (XCTC) training at Fort Stewart, Ga., Sept. 22, 2013.

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U.S. Army Tech. Sgt. Corban Lundborg and Senior Airmen Joseph LeVille, visual information specialists assigned to 4th Combat Camera Squadron, 315th Airlift Wing, participate in a technical skills lane that includes timed events such as creating a portrait, interview set up, and a manuel drawing while competing in the 2022 Spc. Hilda I. Clayton Best Combat Camera Competition at Fort A.P. Hill, Virginia, May 22, 2022. The annual multi-day competition tests the tactical and technical proficiency of visual information and public affairs specialists across the DOD and participating international competitors.

Louisiana National Guard Soldiers with the 61st Troop Command conduct land navigation training during annual training at Camp Shelby, Mississippi, May 14, 2022. Land navigation is an essential skill for all Soldiers.

Airmen from the 171st Air Refueling Wing and the 911th Airlift Wing take part in a Combat Lifesaver Course, May 15, 2022, near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The students were run through a series of realistic trauma scenarios using tactical maneuvers to approach casualties then provide frontline life-saving medical treatment.

Airman 1st Class Austin Schreiner, of the 219th Security Forces Squadron, uses a rope to swing across an obstacle during confidence course training at Camp Gilbert C. Grafton, near Devils Lake, N.D., July 12, 2018.

Air Force security forces members pull a simulated aircraft crash victim to safety during the Emerald Warrior exercise at Hurlburt Field, Fla., March 7, 2012. The primary purpose of Emerald Warrior is to exercise special operations components in urban and irregular warfare settings to support combatant commanders in theater campaigns.

Cadets from 3rd Regiment, Advanced Camp, complete the land navigation course during Cadet Summer Training (CST) at Fort Knox, Ky., June 11, 2022. Using a protractor, compass, and map, Cadets are given six points to plot and locate on the course. | Photo by Courtney Huhta, CST Public Affairs Office

U.S. Marines with Bravo Company, 9th Engineer Support Battalion, 3rd Marine Logistics Group, provide security during a simulated patrol drill on Camp Rodriguez, Republic of Korea, July 6, 2022. Marines with 9th ESB participated in a large-scale field training exercise focused on leveraging the integrated capabilities of joint and allied partners to strengthen all-domain awareness, maneuver, and fires across a distributed mountainous environment.

Spc. Wyatt Walls of the Oregon Army National Guard crosses the finish line of the four-mile Valor Run at the Volunteer Training Site Tullahoma, Tenn., July 28, 2022. The Valor Run consisted of seven stations to honor Medal of Honor recipients by completing tasks at each station. Competitors conducted MOUT training, an Air Assault Course, a four-mile Valor Run, a Peer Evaluation, and media interviews for the days events. The National Best Warrior competition consists of the best of the best Soldiers in the Army National Guard.

Capt. Joshua Moore, the commander of the 24th Ordnance Company, 87th Division Sustainment Support Battalion, 3rd Division Sustainment Brigade, demonstrates how to prepare a block of C-4 during a demolition leader professional development range at Fort Stewart, Georgia, May 24, 2022. The training event was held to teach leaders throughout the battalion to safely employ C-4 in hasty or deliberate demolitions at an ammunition supply point. (U.S. Army photos by Sgt. Aaliyah Craven, 50th Public Affairs Detachment)

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Angel J. Dinsmore, a competitor representing U.S. Army Pacific, prepares for the night vision goggle lane during the Army's first-ever Best Squad Competition, held on Fort Bragg, North Carolina Oct. 2, 2022. Each squad competing in the Army's Best Squad Competition consists of five soldiers; a squad leader, which is a sergeant first class or staff sergeant; a team leader, which is a sergeant or corporal; and three squad members in the ranks of specialist or below.

Recruits with Hotel Company, 2nd Recruit Training Battalion, learn and execute Basic Warrior Training techniques on Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, S.C., November 16, 2022. Recruits are taught basic infantry skills such as land navigation, maneuvering through obstacles, and buddy rushing.

Thirty-five military sniper teams gathered at the 50th Winston P. Wilson and 30th Armed Forces Skill at Arms Meeting Sniper Championships hosted by the National Guard Marksmanship Training Center, with the help of the U.S. Army National Guard Sniper School, which were held at the Fort Chaffee Joint Maneuver Training Center December 4-10, 2020.

Paratroopers across the 82nd Airborne Division finish the 12 mile road march, complete a weapons test, and recieve their E3B on Fort Bragg, NC, April 7, 2023. 371 Paratroopers and Soldiers across multiple units and locations successfully completed E3B.

U.S. Army combat medics train at the Medical Simulation Training Center (MSTC) on Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., Jan. 6, 2022. The MSTC provides state of the art training to aid students in gaining proficiency in treating all areas of trauma and basic medical scenarios.

Members of the 914th Civil Engineer Squadron work together to lift a packed up tent during offsite training in Youngstown, New York, June 11, 2022. Airmen willing to use teamwork to get the task done are essential in making our Air Force stronger against potential adversaries.

U.S. Marines with 3d Battalion, 3d Marines, fire M252 81 mm mortar systems during combat rehearsals at Camp Hansen, Okinawa, Japan, August 8, 2022. This training improved the Marines proficiency at the tactical level and developed small-unit leadership. 3/3 is forward deployed in the Indo-Pacific under 4th Marines, 3d Marine Division as part of the Unit Deployment Program.

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New York Army and Air National Guardsmen run a 100 meter dash for the first part of the Lt Col. William Donovan Team Pistol Match at the 38th Annual The Adjutant General's Combat Sustainment Training Exercise (TAG Match) at Camp Smith Training Site, N.Y., June 2, 2017. The TAG Match is a 3-day event conducted by the New York Army National Guard to promote excellence in marksmanship training and offer Soldiers, Airmen and State Militia the opportunity to test their marksmanship skills and weapon systems in a battle-focused environment.

U.S. Marines and Coast Guardsmen wait to shoot the M18 during the Depot Competition in Arms Program on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, Jan. 17, 2024. The Depot Competition in Arms Program enhances the marksmanship proficiency of Marines and sends the top three shooters to compete with the depot shooting team at the Marine Corps Marksmanship Competition.

U.S. Army Reserve Spc. Nicholas Radtke, left, Spc Ashley Carson, Sgt. Matthew Breitrick and Spc William Barrett, all who are assigned to the 452nd Combat Support Hospital, 807th Medical Command (Deployment Support) based in Milwaukee, carry a "casualty" on a collapsible litter during a litter obstacle course on Fort McCoy, Wis., Sept. 16, 2022.

The 2-113 IN from the New Jersey Army National Guard conducts a collective Platoon Plan Attack / Live Fire Exercise on Range 61 on ASA Fort Dix 14-16 OCT in preparation for their JRTC Combat Training Center Exercise in 2023. (Images are provided by the Fort Dix (TSC) Training Support Center / Daniel Amburg)

Spc. Jordan Sherry, a mortarman from 1st Battalion, 66th Armor Regiment, 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, fires the M17 Pistol during the 2023 Best Mortar Competition, April 10, 2023, Fort Benning, Georgia. The pistol marksmanship event tested competitors' ability to effectively employ the M17 pistol at a small arms qualification range.

A U.S. Army Paratrooper derigs his German T-10 parachute after landing on the Drop Zone during Exrcise Falcon Leap onto Ginkelse Heide Drop Zone, Arnhem, Netherlands., Sep. 14, 2022. More than 1000 Paratroopers from all over the world, 13 different nationalities, multiple airdrops per day, and training with each other equipment for two weeks. this is NATO's largest technical airborne exercise

Soldiers from 3rd Battalion, 112th Field Artillery Regiment, 44th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, rush a simulated casualty to a field medical aid station during eXportable Combat Training Capability 22-01 on Fort Drum, NY, July 21, 2022. The New Jersey National Guard Soldiers spent two weeks honing their individual skills and validating their collective training objectives in preparation for upcoming overseas missions.

U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Cody Demorest, a Joint Terminal Attack Controller with All-Domain Effects Team Bravo, 2nd Air Naval Gunfire Liaison Company (2d ANGLICO), II MEF Information Group conducts a Close Air Support mission with an A-10 Thunderbolt II from the 104th Fighter Squadron as part of Defender Europe 22, Kazlų Rūda, Lithuania, May 18, 2022. 2d ANGLICO provides a liaison capability to our joint service and NATO allies by educating the ground forces on Marine Air-Ground Task Force fires and air support.

A Readiness Challenge VIII participant from Air Mobility Command's 60th Civil Engineer Squadron, Travis Air Force Base, California, calls out to his team during a break from the small shelter system build on the final morning of the competition April 22, 2022, at the Silver Flag Exercise Site, Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida. The Department of the Air Force CE event is hosted by the Air Force Civil Engineer Center. After a 20+ year hiatus, the challenge, a premier event for DAF civil engineers, is back. This year's Readiness Challenge is the initial operating capability event before the challenge reaches full operational capability in April 2023. Eight teams representing major commands and U.S. Space Force faced off in about 20 events showing a wide variety of CE capabilities from emergency airfield lighting and water purification to building a guard shack from the ground up and firefighting and EOD operations.

U.S. Marine Corps Marines and Airmen from the 18th Civil Engineer Squadron spread sand during a joint airfield damage repair exercise at Kadena Air Base, Japan, May 26, 2022. Interoperability among different U.S. military branches is critical in deterring aggression from near-peer adversaries by demonstrating the ability to seamlessly integrate and accomplish the mission as one cohesive team.

U.S. Airmen assigned to the 354th Air Expeditionary Wing set up a small shelter system in support of Valiant Shield 22 at Palau International Airport, June 11, 2022. Teams of multi-capable Airmen are more agile and allow Pacific Air Forces to project airpower from different locations. U.S. Joint Forces train routinely across the Indo-Pacific region and demonstrate its capability to project power while simultaneously defending the homeland.

U.S. Marines with Corporals Course, Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Beaufort, compete in tug-of-war during a culminating event at MCAS Beaufort, South Carolina, Feb. 2, 2024. Corporals Course is a month-long professional military education program that develops Marines small unit leadership skills and continues to prepare them to lead Marines. The culminating event consisted of land navigation, an improvised explosive device lane, tug-of-war, grappling and completing the obstacle course with gear. Marine Corps

U.S. Marines with III Marine Expeditionary Force (MEF) prepare to be lifted by a UH-1Y Venom helicopter assigned to Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron (HMLA) 469 during a Helicopter Rope Suspension Techniques (HRST) Masters Course at Landing Zone Sterling, Okinawa, Japan, Sept. 14, 2022. Fast rope and helicopter rope suspension training teaches Marines proper knots, rappelling techniques and builds confidence for maneuvering from air to ground.

U.S. Marines with III Marine Expeditionary Force (MEF) prepare to be lifted by a UH-1Y Venom helicopter assigned to Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron (HMLA) 469 during a Helicopter Rope Suspension Techniques (HRST) Masters Course at Landing Zone Sterling, Okinawa, Japan, Sept. 14, 2022. Fast rope and helicopter rope suspension training teaches Marines proper knots, rappelling techniques and builds confidence for maneuvering from air to ground.

U.S. Marines with III Marine Expeditionary Force and members of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force participate in combat casualty evacuation training during Keen Sword 23 at Amami Ōshima, Japan, Nov. 17, 2022. Keen Sword is a biennial training event that exercises the combined capabilities and lethality developed between III MEF and the JGSDF. This bilateral field-training exercise between the U.S. military and the JGSDF strengthens interoperability and combat readiness of the U.S.-Japan alliance.

A Brazilian Marine briefs U.S. Marines prior to a patrol as part of a bilateral jungle training event in Manaus, Brazil, Sept. 25, 2022. The U.S. Marine Corps continues to seek opportunities to train alongside Brazilian partners in deliberate and dynamic training events. Bilateral training events, such as jungle training, offer both forces a chance to increase interoperability, exchange best practices, and set conditions for future events to continue to grow a long tradition of friendship and cooperation.

Soldiers in the 81st Readiness Division tackle Victory Tower at Ft. Jackson, SC, yesterday, as part of a Building Strong and Ready Teams event put on by the 81st RDs Unit Ministry Team. Wildcats also acted as safeties on the obstacle course, helping out the cadre who run the course on a daily basis.

Soldiers listen to an operation order before going out on mission during a field training exercise.

412th TEC Soldiers bow their heads in unified prayer during religious services at the Vicksburg Reserve Center on 15 October 2022. Photo by Maj. William C. Allred, 412th TEC Public Affairs

220607-N-FV745-1008 RAVLUNDA, Sweden (June 7, 2022) Sailors assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit (EODMU) Eight prepare fuses during a Swedish explosive familiarization training while at exercise BALTOPS 22, June 7, 2022. BALTOPS 22 is the premier maritime-focused exercise in the Baltic Region. The exercise, led by U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa, and executed by Naval Striking and Support Forces NATO, provides a unique training opportunity to strengthen combined response capabilities critical to preserving freedom of navigation and security in the Baltic Sea.

A Soldier encourages his team mate during the obstacle course portion of the Pennsylvania National Guard's Ranger and Sapper Assessment Program on April 22, 2022. The service members worked together to conquer the challenging obstacles across the course

GREYWOLF Troopers took part in M240 Machine Gun weapons training on 25 August, 2022. As part of the training troopers learned about the components of the weapons and competed in disassembling and reassembling the weapon against each other. Training like this promotes familiarization helping troopers build readiness.

U.S. Army Spc. Robert Glocker, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1-114th Infantry Regiment, fires an M17 pistol during the New Jersey National Guards Best Warrior Competition, Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey, April 19, 2022. Competitors are tested on physical fitness, marksmanship, land navigation, and other soldiering tasks. Five Soldiers, one Airman, and seven noncommissioned officers are competing, April 18-21, 2022. The top Soldier and NCO will go on to compete against seven other states of Region I in Niantic, Connecticut, May 10-13, 2022. The Best Warrior Competition recognizes Soldiers who demonstrate commitment to the Army Values, embody the Warrior Ethos, and represent the Force of the Future. (New Jersey National Guard photo by Mark C. Olsen)

U.S. Army Soldiers assigned to 387th Engineer Company, start the first phase of geocell building during Resolute Castle 22 at Cincu Training Area, Romania, June 17, 2022. Our presence in Europe provides the U.S. military with the strategic access vital to meet our NATO commitment to deter and if necessary, respond to threats against our allies.

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