Military Training Exercises

Images depict soldiers engaged in various training exercises, including terrain model building and casualty assessment, showcasing teamwork and tactical skills.

Pfc. Bryan Zurita, a mechanic assigned to the 4th Engineer Battalion, 36th Engineer Brigade, III Armored Corps, based out of Fort Carson, Colorado, ties a knot on a rope and attaches it to the end of an antenna pole during the III Armored Corps Best Squad Competition 2022 on Fort Hood, Texas, June 23, 2022. The purpose of the rope is to make sure the antenna that he is helping to install will be sturdy and will not fall when it is turned upright. The III Armored Corps pulled only the best from across its divisions and separate brigades to compete in this years inaugural competition. The best squad goes on to compete at the U.S. Army Forces Command competition at Fort hood in August.

Iowa Army National Guard Soldiers build a sand table during a field training exercise as part of a U.S. Pathfinder course at Camp Dodge in Johnston, Iowa, on Sept. 8, 2022. Nearly 30 Soldiers graduated the course, which was taught by a mobile training team at the Army National Guard Warrior Training Center in Fort Benning, Georgia. Army Pathfinders are trained to provide navigational aid and advisory services to military aircraft in areas designated by supported unit commanders. During the Pathfinder course, students are instructed in aircraft orientation, aero-medical evacuation, close combat assault, ground to air communication procedures, control center operations, all three phases of a sling load operation, helicopter landing zone and pick up zone operations, and drop zone operations dealing with U.S. military fixed and rotary wing aircraft for personnel and equipment.

041204-F-5343T-109. Base: Avon Park Air Force Range State: Florida (FL) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Pfc. Bryan Zurita, a mechanic assigned to the 4th Engineer Battalion, 36th Engineer Brigade, III Armored Corps, based out of Fort Carson, Colorado, ties a knot on a rope and attaches it to the end of an antenna pole during the III Armored Corps Best Squad Competition 2022 on Fort Hood, Texas, June 23, 2022. The purpose of the rope is to make sure the antenna that he is helping to install will be sturdy and will not fall when it is turned upright. The III Armored Corps pulled only the best from across its divisions and separate brigades to compete in this years inaugural competition. The best squad goes on to compete at the U.S. Army Forces Command competition at Fort hood in August.

Soldiers of the 79th IBCT, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, prepare a terrain model during training exercises on Camp Roberts, Calif., April 8, 2022. For a combined arms rehearsal, a good terrain model is necessary to enhance collaboration and dialogue requisite for good planning and unity of effort.

Tech. Sgt. James Summers, 4th Civil Engineer Squadron fire station chief, instructs Airmen on the proper procedure to assess a casualty's airways during Tactical Combat Casualty Care training in conjunction with a Multi-Capable Airman exercise at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina, Sept. 15, 2022. The TCCC course provides skills to assess and manage a combat casualty.

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Collin Nicholson, a mortarman with 3d Battalion, 3d Marines, 3d Marine Division fires an M252 81 mm mortar system during Resolute Dragon 22 on Shikaribetsu Maneuver Area, Hokkaido, Japan, Oct. 6, 2022. Resolute Dragon 22 is an annual bilateral exercise designed to strengthen the defensive capabilities of the U.S.-Japan Alliance by exercising integrated command and control, targeting, combined arms, and maneuver across multiple domains. Nicholson is a native of Mission Viejo, California.

Hellenic air force airman assigned to the 31st Saros and U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Spencer Voght, 86th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron aeromedical evacuation technician, takes cover while participating in the simulated aeromedical evacuation during Stolen Cerberus IX at Elefsina Air Base, Greece, May 5, 2022. The simulation involved multiple shooters and several injured patients needing medical care. Stolen Cerberus IX enhances interoperability and airlift capabilities between U.S. and Greek Armed Forces.

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Collin Nicholson, a mortarman with 3d Battalion, 3d Marines, 3d Marine Division, fires an M252 81 mm mortar system during Resolute Dragon 22 on Shikaribetsu Maneuver Area, Hokkaido, Japan, Oct. 6, 2022. Resolute Dragon 22 is an annual bilateral exercise designed to strengthen the defensive capabilities of the U.S.-Japan Alliance by exercising integrated command and control, targeting, combined arms, and maneuver across multiple domains. Nicholson is a native of Mission Viejo, California.

U.S. Army Paratroopers assigned to 54th Brigade Engineer Battalion, 173rd Airborne Brigade, prepare c4 explosive for the setup of the confidence charge during live-fire demolition at Pocek Range in Postonja, Slovenia, Dec. 7, 2022.The exercise was held to demonstrate different demolition and explosive breaching training techniques. The 173rd Airborne Brigade is the U.S. Army Contingency Response Force in Europe, capable of projecting ready forces anywhere in the U.S. European, Africa or Central Commands' areas of responsibility.

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Evan Stafford, combat engineer non-commissioned Officer, 837th Brigade Engineer Battalion, 37th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, reveals a mock-improvised explosive device (IED) during a training exercise at Camp Grayling, Michigan, Aug. 23, 2022. Overseen by U.S. Army Combat Engineers, the training lane put Soldiers through a realistic training environment, allowing them to find and understand the weapons and technology used by enemy forces, increasing their readiness, lethality, and unit cohesion.

Soldiers from the 720th Explosive Ordnance Disposal, in Baumholder, Germany, and their Moldovan counterparts, exchange knowledge in detection and marking of unexploded ordnance, at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center, Hohenfels, Germany, on October 7, 2022.

U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Terrell Turner-Cunningham, 822nd Base Defense Squadron heavy gunner, improvises a shelter used for perimeter security during exercise Agile Flag 22-2 at MacDill Air Force Base, Florida, July 24, 2022. Base Defense Group Airmen, assigned under the 93rd Air Ground Operations Wing, provided base and airfield security throughout the exercise. Agile Flag 22-2 is Air Combat Commands first lead-wing certification event designed to demonstrate the 23rd Wings capability to generate combat air power while continuing to move, maneuver, and sustain the Wing and subordinate force elements in a dynamic and contested environment. (U.S. Airman 1st Class Rachel Coates)

U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Moises Teran (left) and Sgt. Tyree Whitfield, psychological operations specialists attached to 3d Battalion, 2d Marines, set up a Next Generation Loudspeaker during Exercise Shinka 22.1 at Combined Arms Training Center, Camp Fuji, Japan, June 9, 2022. Shinka exemplifies a shared commitment to realistic training that produces lethal, ready, and adaptable forces capable of decentralized operations across a wide range of missions. 3/2 is forward-deployed in the Indo-Pacific under 4th Marines, 3d Marine Division as part of the Unit Deployment Program. Whitefield is a native of Columbus, Georgia and Teran is a native of Antioch, Illinois.

U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Robert Owen, center, 3rd platoon sergeant assigned to Alpha Company, 588th Brigade Engineer Battalion, 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, collects an inert mine clearing line charges rope after a demolition range as part of Defender 22 at Drawsko Pomorskie, Poland, May 12, 2022. Defender Europe 22 is a series of U.S. Army Europe and Africa multinational training exercises taking place in Eastern Europe. The exercise demonstrates U.S. Army Europe and Africas ability to conduct large scale ground combat operations across multiple theaters in support of NATO.

U.S. Marines with Battery A, Battalion Landing Team 2/4, 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit, perform tactical combat casualty care on a simulated casualty during a Tactical Recovery of Aircraft Personnel course at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, April 25, 2022. The TRAP course develops the Marines proficiency in recovery operations, enabling rapid, efficient, and safe recovery of personnel and equipment when necessary while forward deployed in the Indo-Pacific region.

040209-M-6795S-002. Base: Marine Corps Base, Camp Fuji State: Honshu Country: Japan (JPN)

001212-F-2902B-003. Base: Mcguire Air Force Base State: New Jersey (NJ) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Major Command Shown: AMC

U.S. Air Force Airmen from across the nation are at the Alpena Combat Readiness Training Center taking part in the Medical Readiness University's (MRU) Tactical Combat Casualty Care course provided by Air National Guard Medical Service (ANGMS), at Alpena, Michigan, August 30, 2022. 93 students, 16 instructors and support staff from 47 units trained for nine days in a variety of realistic combat scenarios. MRU assists the Air Force Surgeon General allowing medical personnel an opportunity to receive hands-on training, execution, employment and deployment for a variety of assigned ANGMS mission sets which may not be acquired elsewhere at a reduced cost for the entire enterprise.

030909-M-9023R-006. Subject Operation/Series: CROCODILE 2003 Base: Camp Samuel Hill State: Queensland Country: Australia (AUS) Scene Major Command Shown: H&S 2nd Battalion 3rd Marine Reg

Spc. Dakota Van Brocklin, a health care specialist with the Iowa Army National Guards 134th Medical Ground Ambulance Company, pulls a simulated casualty to safety as part of the 2016 Army National Guard Best Warrior Competition at Joint Base Cape Cod, Mass., Tuesday, June 21, 2016. The competition is a mentally and physically challenging three-day event that tests Soldiers on a variety of tactical and technical skills to determine the Army Guards Soldier and noncommissioned of the year. The winners move on to compete in the Department of the Army Best Warrior Competition, battling it out with Soldiers from throughout the Army to be named the Armys Soldier and NCO of the year.

U.S. Army combat medics treat a simulated casualty during training 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.

Polish soldiers set up a tent for Final Training Exercise (FTX) III, a part of Cooperative Osprey '96. FTX III consists of Airfield Security, Convoy Operations and Humanitarian Assistance Operations. Subject Operation/Series: COOPERATIVE OSPREY '96 Base: Marine Corps Base, Camp Lejeune State: North Carolina (NC) Country: United States Of America (USA)

U.S. Marine Corps Master Sgt. Jason Hedrick, a marksmanship instructor with the Marine Corps Individual Ready Reserve, fires a World War II M1 Grand rifle during the Marine Corps Championships on Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, March 31, 2023. Marines who place in the top 10-percent at their respective Marine Corps Marksmanship Competition receive an invitation to participate in the Marine Corps Championships that consists of 10 days of competition in precision rifle, action rifle, precision pistol, action pistol, and multi gun action shooting.

U.S. Army Central volunteers pick up trash during an organized cleanup, outside Shaw Air Force Base, Oct. 14, 2022. This is an annual clean-up, hosted by USARCENT Headquarters Headquarters Battalion, including service members and civilians who collected over twenty bags of trash along the highway.

U.S. Army Central volunteers pick up trash during an organized cleanup, outside Shaw Air Force Base, Oct. 14, 2022. This is an annual clean-up, hosted by USARCENT Headquarters Headquarters Battalion, including service members and civilians who collected over twenty bags of trash along the highway.

Soldiers of the 2nd of the 151st Infantry Battalion, from the Indiana Army National Guard, practice crowd and riot control tactics with the German Bundeswehr(Army) at Hohenfels Training Center, Germany, on October 7, 2022. Task Force Nighthawk is training to be the 31st rotation of U.S. forces to support Operation Joint Guardian in Regional Command East, KFOR in Kosovo.

051002-A-4339E-015. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Liberty State: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 48TH BRIGADE COMBAT TEAM

Staff Sgt. Calvin Miller, a combat engineer assigned to Eighth Army stationed at Camp Humphreys, Republic of Korea, conducts a simulated tactical search of an individual during a series of warrior tasks and battle drills June 6 at Lightning Academy, Schofield Barracks East Range, Hawaii, at the 2022 USARPACs Best Warrior Competition. The USARPAC BWC 2022 is an annual week-long competition consisting of competitors from multiple USARPAC units across the Indo-Pacific. The noncommissioned officers and junior enlisted Soldiers are evaluated in several categories such as general military knowledge, basic Soldier skills, and physical fitness.

030402-F-1404F-004. Base: Rock City Country: Georgia (The Country) (GEO)

Members of the 105th Engineers Battalion, NC National Guard, clear a vertical obstacle as a team on the X-miler ruck event during the 2017 Sapper Stakes Invitational held at Camp Butner on April 9, 2017. The event brings together the engineer community to build leadership and comradery from across the state of North Carolina Guard and Reserve Component engineer units. (NCNG

220611-N-PG340-1019 NAVAL AIR WEAPONS STATION CHINA LAKE, Calif. (June 11, 2022) U.S. Navy Seabees with Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 5 participate in training during Operation Turning Point, also known as their Field Training Exercise. Operation Turning Point is an around-the-clock exercise that focuses on constructing advanced bases while maintaining proficiency in tactics and survivability. NMCB-5 is homeported out of Port Hueneme, California. They train on high-quality construction, expeditionary logistics, and combat operations to execute construction and engineering projects for major combat operations, disaster response, and humanitarian assistance.

Soldiers assigned to the 7th Transportation Brigade - Expeditionary build a team bridge to pass a barrel during the Leaders Reaction Course event at XVIII Airborne Corps Best Squad Competition for Corps' Separates Competition at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, June 7, 2022. The competition tested squads physical, technical and tactical abilities under stress and fatigue to determine which squad would partake in the next competition at Fort Stewart, Georgia, in July 2022

Sgt. 1st Class Dain Neininger and Sgt. Chaise Rheinlander, 1st Cavalry Division, assess a canine casualty during the Sgt. Maj. Jack L. Clark Jr. U.S. Army Best Medic Competition, Jan. 25, 2022, Fort Hood, Texas. The competition is a grueling 72 hours with many events to test the Soldiers abilities. (U.S. Army photo by Dylan Bailey)

U.S. Marines with 1st Battalion, 3d Marines, 3d Marine Division prime field expedient demolition charges at Combined Arms Training Center, Camp Fuji, Japan, May 11, 2022. This exercise tested and strengthened the Marines ability to conduct distributed operations, while demonstrating their readiness to rapidly secure and defend key terrain to maintain regional security. 1/3 is forward-deployed in the Indo-Pacific under 4th Marines as a part of the Unit Deployment Program.

Marine Raiders with Special Operations Task Force 511.2 and Marines with 3rd Marine Air Wing demonstrate the capabilities of the RQ-20 Puma III AE, and the RQ-12A Wasp IV to service members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines during Marine Aviation Support Activity 22 in Palawan, Philippines, June 10, 2022. Marine Aviation Support Activity 22 is a bilateral exercise between the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the U.S. Marine Corps, aimed at increasing interoperability and improving aviation-related capabilities in support of U.S.-Philippine mutual defense.

U.S. Soldiers assigned to C Battery, 2nd Cavalry Regiment Field Artillery Squadron, work together to move mud away from the M777 Howitzer during a live fire exercise at the Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany, Feb. 6, 2024. 2nd Cavalry Regiment provides V Corps, Americas forward-deployed corps in Europe, with combat-credible forces capable of rapid deployment throughout the European theater to defend the NATO alliance. Army

Staff Sgt. Caleb Stinson and Sergeant 1st Class Jason Pate, 68W Combat Medics, 232nd Medical Battalion, conduct damage control and resuscitation during the Best Medic Competition, Sep. 29, 2022 at Joint Base San Antonio-Camp Bullis, Tx. Medics who earn entry into the Best Medic Competition are already among the "best of the best." To be eligible for entry, medics must have received either the Expert Field Medical Badge (EFMB) or the Combat Medical Badge (CMB).2 Both badges require the utmost determination and competence to receive. The overall pass rate for the Expert Field Medical Badge is less than 20%, making it one of the hardest and most respected forms of recognition you can earn in the army.

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Rainer Zeiber (left), a Reading, Pennsylvania native and small unmanned aircraft systems operator with 2d Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2d Marine Division, prepares an AeroVironment RQ-20 Puma for flight during exercise Mjolnir Strike on Atlantic Airfield, North Carolina, June 27, 2023. Exercise Mjolnir Strike 3-23 is a fire support-focused training opportunity for Joint Terminal Attack Controllers and Joint Fires Observers across II MEF to increase proficiency while incorporating multiple fire support capabilities, such as ground-based indirect fires and close air support.

2nd Lt. Alan Sheppard, an Army Health Services Admin with the 254th Combat Operational Stress Control Team, conducts an inventory of his packing list on the in-processing day at the 30th Medical Brigade Best Squad Competition at Franken Kaserne military base, Ansbach, Germany on Feb. 26, 2024. Each candidate was given a mandatory packing list and if any item is not present, their team will suffer both negative points and will not have that item present for the competition. Events like these are used as a test of grit and toughness, foster readiness and esprit de corps, and are a fundamental part of the Brigade's method of building lethal, cohesive teams and expert leaders. Army

Staff Sgt. Tyler Fisher makes notes on a casualty collection card during an event to qualify for the Expert Soldier Badge at Fort McCoy, Wisonsin on May 11, 2022.

020326-M-3022S-005. Base: Fort A. P. Hill State: Virginia (VA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Major Command Shown: 24 MEU

U.S. Marines with 1st Air Naval Gunfire Liaison Company, I Marine Expeditionary Force Information Group, unload concertina wire for the combat operation center during company field exercise 1-23 at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, Oct. 11, 2022. 1st ANGLICO conducted COFEX 1-23 to develop, sustain, and enhance core competencies required to support I Marine Expeditionary Force across the companys Training and Readiness standards and the Warfighting Functions.

010716-M-5834A-037. Base: Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

U.S. Marines with Combat Logistics Battalion 4, Combat Logistics Regiment 3, 3rd Marine Logistics Group, create a terrain model for convoy operations during exercise Winter Workhorse 23 at the Central Training Area, Okinawa, Japan, Dec. 5, 2022. Winter Workhorse is an annual exercise for CLR-3 to train to carry out mission-essential tasks in forward-deployed, austere environments.

U.S. Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Damienandr, hospital corpsman, left, and Lance Cpl. Dylan Stansbury, mortarman, right, with 3d Littoral Combat Team, 3d Marine Littoral Regiment, 3d Marine Division, perform a simulated medical evaluation, during exercise Bougainville II at Marine Corps Training Area Bellows,Hawaii, Nov. 3, 2022. Bougainville II is a field exercise that allows the MLR and its subordinate units to conduct expeditionary advanced base operations across the island of Oahu. BVII displays the MLRs ability to rapidly establish and displace expeditionary advance bases while executing command and control in a dispersed environment. 3d MLRs Bougainville II is integrated into the Joint Pacific Multinational Readiness Center training rotation 23-01 that strengthens defense relationships, fosters multinational interoperability, increase readiness, and reinforces the unified land power network of the Joint Force. This rotation of JPMRC includes participants from all U.S. joint servi

U.S. Air Force National Guard Airman 1st Class Elijah Oxborrow, Explosive Ordnance Disposal Techinician,inspects several contaminated and compromised depleted uranium rounds on June 23, 2022 at Tooele Army Depot, UT. The Utah Air National Guard Explosive Ordnance Disposal Squadron was tasked to execute an Emergency detonation of several depleted uranium rounds that had been compromised.

030130-M-9892R-004. Country: Japan (JPN) Scene Major Command Shown: 3rd Medical Battalion

U.S. Air Force pararescuemen and Royal Malaysian Air Force Pasukan Khas Udara personnel prepare for a search and rescue scenario during Exercise Pacific Angel at Subang Air Base, Malaysia, Aug. 18, 2022. More than 75 Airmen from various Pacific Air Force units conducted subject matter expert exchanges, search and rescue exercises, expeditionary medicine, and other specialty skills and training with the Royal Malaysian Air Force and multinational civilian and military participants.

U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Kealan Kucera, a motor vehicle operator with Combat Logistics Regiment 3, 3rd Marine Logistics Group, secures a tourniquet on a simulated casualty during exercise Winter Workhorse 24 on Combined Arms Training Center Camp Fuji, Japan, Feb. 3, 2024. Kucera is a native of Nebraska. Winter Workhorse is a regularly scheduled training exercise that is designed to enhance warfighting capabilities in contested environments. Marine Corps

030205-M-1852W-015. Base: Marine Corps Base, Camp Fuji State: Honshu Country: Japan (JPN) Scene Major Command Shown: 3rd Bn, 12th Marines

The Florida National Guard CERFP team clears the road along route 98 on the Florida panhandle coast. (Bradley Logan/NGB-SRSC)

Tech. Sgt. James Cannon, 8th Security Forces Squadron flight sergeant, left, and Senior Airman Noah Pate, 8th SFS patrolman, right, maneuver past a simulated deceased adversary during a training event at Kunsan Air Base, Republic of Korea, Aug. 18, 2022. Routine training provides opportunities for Wolf Pack Airmen to immerse in simulated real-world scenarios and ultimately remain mission ready.

220426-N-PG340-1071 PORT HUENEME, Calif. (April 26, 2022) U.S. Navy Seabees with Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 5 set up cover and concealment on the camp during the battalions second Command Post Exercise onboard Naval Base Ventura County Port Hueneme, California. The U.S. Navy Seabees with NMCB-5 are homeported out of Port Hueneme. They train on high-quality construction, expeditionary logistics, and combat operations to execute construction and engineering projects for major combat operations, disaster response, and humanitarian assistance.

U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Remaccson Mark, supply administrative chief, a Tampa, Florida native, rakes the ground at Gate 1 on Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, April 21, 2022. The Marines with Security Battalion participated in the base-wide Spring Clean-up” in order to maintain a safe, healthy, and effective environment for all Marines, Sailors, and government employees who work and live on base. The Marines on base have a responsibility to keep their base clean.

Secretary of the Army Eric Fanning helps carry a stretcher with a simulated casualty to load onto an ambulance during an informative, hands-on visit to the Sustainment Training Center training site at the Iowa National Guards Camp Dodge Joint Maneuver Training Center in Johnston, Iowa.

France, Brittany, Morbihan, Saint-Pierre-Quiberon on 2022-03-30. Students from the Ecole Militaire Interarmes (EMIA), the military academy responsible for training army officers recruited internally, i.e. from the ranks of non-commissioned officers and other ranks, take part in a training course at Fort de Penthievre, a fortified structure on the Quiberon peninsula that has become a training base. Photograph by Martin Bertrand.France, Bretagne, Morbihan, Saint-Pierre-Quiberon le 2022-03-30. Les eleves de l' ecole militaire interarmes ( EMIA ), l' ecole militaire chargee de la formation des officiers de l' armee de Terre issus du recrutement interne, c'est-a-dire issus des rangs des sous-officiers et des militaires du rang, participe a un stage d'aguerrissment au Fort de Penthievre, un ouvrage fortifie sur la presqu'ile de Quiberon devenu une base d'entrainement. Photographie de Martin Bertrand.

U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Andrew Jeter and Lance Cpl. Logan Castillo-Rivera, an aviation meteorological equipment technician and a rifleman both assigned to Maritime Surveillance Platoon, 3rd Intelligence Battalion, III Marine Expeditionary Force Information Group, discuss which major landmarks they will display in their terrain model at the Jungle Warfare Training Center, Camp Gonsalvez, Okinawa, Japan, Sept. 12, 2022. MSP is an experimental unit whose mission is to decrease the commanders' uncertainty of the maritime domain through the employment of radars and other sensors. MSP provides the Marine Corps with its only organic maritime sensor surveillance capability in support of the Marine Air-Ground Task Force and Navy commanders' intelligence collection efforts.

Army JROTC Cadets from Missouri Military Academy work together to get their teammates across the water in the one-rope bridge event, one of the five challenges Cadet Raider Teams had to compete in November 5 at the 2022 Army JROTC National Raider Championships. This outdoor competition featured all-service and Army JROTC Cadet teams from around the country competing in physically and mentally challenging team events November 3-6 at the Gerald Lawhorn Boy Scout Camp in Molena, Ga. (Photo by Sarah Windmueller, U.S. Army Cadet Command Public Affairs)

U.S. Marines, Sailors and Airmen with Weapons Training Battalion set up explosives while conducting a live fire range at the Methods of Entry School on Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, Sept. 29, 2022. MOES conducted a general demolition range to teach Marines about techniques to successfully breach doors, windows, walls and other fixtures of man-made structures.

U.S. Marines, Sailors and Airmen with Weapons Training Battalion set up explosives while conducting a live fire range at the Methods of Entry School on Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, Sept. 29, 2022. MOES conducted a general demolition range to teach Marines about techniques to successfully breach doors, windows, walls and other fixtures of man-made structures.

220718-N-PI330-1016 NAVAL STATION ROTA, Spain (July 18, 2022) Lt. j.g. Caleb Tilley, left, and Steelworker Constructionman Jason Dulerain, assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 133 (NMCB 133), set up c-wire during a camp layout training in Rota, Spain, July 18, 2022. NMCB 133 is on a scheduled deployment in the U.S. Naval Forces Europe area of operations, employed by U.S. Sixth Fleet to defend U.S., allied, and partner interests.

060411-A-6365W-230. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Forward Operating Base Gabe Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 101ST

U.S. Soldiers with Company A, 10th Brigade Engineer Battalion, 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division work together as a team to master an obstacle at the Leaders Reaction Course at the 7th Army Training Commands Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany, May 24, 2022. 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division is part of the 1st Infantry Division and V Corps, America's Forward Deployed Corps in Europe that works alongside NATO Allies and regional security partners to provide combat ready forces, executes joint and multinational training exercises, and retains command and control for its rotational and assigned units in the European Theater.

Alaska Air and Army National Guardsmen, assigned to Joint Task Force- Alaska, fill and place sand bags to reinforce the Koyuk Native Store warehouse for Operatin Merbok Respnse in Koyuk, Alaska, Sept. 28, 2022. More than 130 members of the Alaska Organized Militia, which includes members of the Alaska National Guard, Alaska State Defense Force and Alaska Naval Militia, were activated following a disaster declaration issued Sept. 17 after the remnants of Typhoon Merbok caused dramatic flooding across more than 1,000 miles of Alaskan coastline. (Alaska National Guard photo by Sgt. Seth LaCount)

Roughly 60 Navy hospital corpsmen participated in Operation Commanding Force, the annual two-week training exercise, at Fort Drum. The culminating event on July 21 included tactical field care and medical evacuation procedures with reservists going through a litter obstacle course. The training was supported by cadre from the Bridgewater-Vaccaro Medical Simulation Training Center (MSTC), the 10th Combat Aviation Brigades 3rd General Support Aviation Battalion (DUSTOFF) and medics from 1st Brigade Combat Team and 2nd Brigade Combat Team. (Photo by Mike Strasser, Fort Drum Garrison Public Affairs)

U.S. Marines and Navy corpsmen with 3d Littoral Combat Team, 3d Marine Littoral Regiment, 3d Marine Division, conduct a casualty evacuation training event during exercise Bougainville III at Pohakuloa Training Area, Jan. 19, 2024. Bougainville III is a 3d LCT live-fire exercise focused on decentralized operations to prepare the battalion to command and control forces from dispersed locations.

U.S. Marines with Chemical Biological Incident Response Force, relay communications during a mission readiness exercise at Naval Support Facility Indian Head, Maryland, Jan. 10, 2023. The exercise was conducted in order to practice realistic training to improve, sustain, and develop standards of procedures safely.

SPC Terrence Zordel removes the straps from a 55-gallon drum of water that was dropped from a C-130 Hercules aircraft at the Fuji Drop Zone. Base: Marine Corps Base, Camp Fuji State: Honshu Country: Japan (JPN)

041228-M-0036Y-159. Base: Al Asad State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

041006-M-0374B-010. Base: Marine Corps Base, Camp Fuji State: Honshu Country: Japan (JPN)

U.S. Army Pfc. Lincoln Jonas, a Soldier assigned to the 20th CBRNE participates in the stress shoot event of the 2022 20th CBRNE Best Warrior Competition, at Fort Indiantown Gap Pa., July 12, 2022.Command Sgt. Major Jorge Arzabala, senior enlisted advisor for the 20th Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and Explosives (CBRNE) Command, said this years Best Squad Competition and Best Warrior Competition is focused on the basic fundamentals every Soldier should master.

MSGT Walter Filipiak (left) and A1C Steven Skripka (right) of the 48th Security Police Squadron, Lakenheath, UK, assemble an antenna during an exercise. The green boxes and black discs the men are wearing are part of the MILES (Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement Simulation) equipment which, when targeted by a laser emitter equipped weapon, will beep indicating a hit. Exact date shot unknown. Subject Operation/Series: PEACEKEEPER CHALLENGE Base: Raf Lakenheath State: East Anglia Country: England / Great Britain (ENG)

Medics from Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 181st Infantry Regiment, 44th Infantry Brigade Combat Team move Soldiers role playing as a wounded enemy prisoners to the M998 Casualty Evacuation Humvee to transport the wounded prisoners to higher medical care, during a Mass Casualty drill during the eXportable Combat Training Exercise (XCTC) exercise at Ft. Drum, N.Y. on July 19, 2022. A Mass Casualty exercise tests a medical unit's ability to respond to multiple casualties arriving at the Battalion Aid Station in a short amount of time. 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. The Soldiers from the 181st are part of the Massachusetts Army National Guard and the rest of the 44th Infantry Brigade is composed of units from New Jersey.

Members with the 221st and 239th Combat Communications Squadrons practice Tactical Combat Casualty Care maneuvers during Exercise BUMBU 22 at Camp Shelby, Mississippi, June 9, 2022. BUMBU 22 is a training exercise involving five geographically-separated combat communications squadrons from across the 254th Combat Communications Group.

Spc. Joel Torres, a medic with A Company, 296th Infantry Battalion, Multinational Battle Group East, intitiates an I.V. on a 296th Soldier that notionally sustained injuries from a simulated vehicle rollover during a quick reaction force exercise in Radivojc/Radivojce, Kosovo, July 13. The Soldiers of the 296th participated in the exercise to validate their QRF skills.

The Week of the Warrior continues as competitors from the 2nd Infantry Division/ROK-U.S. Combined Division finish the third day of events, May 3, 2022, on Camp Humphreys, Republic of Korea. The third day saw the Soldiers complete an air assault from Camp Casey to Camp Humphreys and complete a course that tested various warrior tasks and battle drills.

Sgt. Jeremy Woods (center left), a medical lanes instructor at the Camp Dodge Joint Maneuver Training Center, Johnston, Iowa, helps his medical team load a simulated casualty onto a stretcher with the assistance of Secretary of the Army Eric Fanning, whos holding the casualtys feet. The Secretary received an informative, hands-on brief as he visited the Sustainment Training Center training site on Camp Dodge.

030401-M-4419R-080. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 5th Marines

U.S. Marines with Maritime Raid Force, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, and a U.S. Air Force survival specialist desalinate water using scavenged supplies as part of persistence and reconnaissance training during KAMANDAG 6 in Dadao, Calayan Island, Philippines, Oct. 7, 2022. The training gave the U.S. and Philippine reconnaissance Marines an opportunity to share tactics, techniques, and procedures. KAMANDAG is an annual bilateral exercise between the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the U.S. military designed to strengthen interoperability, capabilities, trust, and cooperation built over decades shared experiences.

U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Caleb Graves, center left, with Combat Logistics Regiment 3, 3rd Marine Logistics Group, checks the pulse of a simulated casualty during exercise Winter Workhorse 24 on Combined Arms Training Center Camp Fuji, Japan, Feb. 3, 2024. Graves is a native of Tennessee. Winter Workhorse is a regularly scheduled training exercise that is designed to enhance warfighting capabilities in contested environments. Marine Corps

Joint training exercise with Det 2. 6 Co. 3/238th AVN MEDEVAC, Cox Health and Missouri State Highway Patrol at Hercules Glade Wilderness, Bradleyville, Mo., Oct. 06, 2022. Multiple Missouri departments teamed up to practice life-saving MEDEVAC scenarios. (Photo by U.S. Army National Guard Spc. Rose Di Trolio.)

NAVAL BASE GUAM, Santa Rita, Guam (Feb. 14, 2023) Navy Cargo Handling Battalion Sailors, operating under Commander, Task Force 75 and Marines from Combat Logistics Regiment 3, conduct a distributed littoral operational fuel transfer system (DLOFTS) evolution during Cope North 2023 at Naval Base Guam, Feb. 14, 2023. The multilateral training event brings together approximately 1,000 U.S. Airmen, Marines, and Sailors alongside 1,000 combined Japan Air Self-Defense Force, Royal Australian Air Force, and French Air and Space Force service members. Exercises like Cope North enhance interoperability among the services and highlight their ability to conduct integrated airpower generation from dispersed locations across the Indo-Pacific Theater, demonstrating coalition airpower resilience and survivability in a contested environment.

HONIARA, Solomon Islands (Sept. 2, 2022) - Pacific Partnership 2022 (PP22) personnel saw wood boards while building a swing set at the Rove Childrens Park during Pacific Partnership 2022. Now in its 17th year, Pacific Partnership is the largest annual multinational humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness mission conducted in the Indo-Pacific. Pacific Partnership is a unifying mission that fosters enduring friendships and cooperation among many nations. The years mission in Solomon Islands will include participants from the United States, Japan and Australia.

A U.S. Army paratrooper lunges for a target during Leapfest 2022 at Exeter, Rhode Island, August 6, 2022. Leapfest is the largest, longest standing, international static line parachute training event and competition hosted by the 56th Troop Command, Rhode Island Army National Guard to promote high level technical training and esprit de corps within the International Airborne community.

Members of the 913th Airlift Group conduct multiple scenarios during the group's Agile Herk Exercise, March 30, 2023, at Little Rock Air Force Base, Ark. The Reservists worked over the course of two days to fulfill readiness and annual training requirements during their super drill weekend.

060105-N-0553R-005. Base: Wollmarket State: Mississippi (MS) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Iowa Army National Guard Soldiers with the Camp Dodge Department of Public Works and Sustainment Training Center work to secure a historic railcar for transport at Camp Dodge in Johnston, Iowa, on Aug. 3, 2022. Three flatbed railcars, a ramp and a short length of track were installed on Camp Dodge in the 1980s and served as a rail load training site for Soldiers for several years before railway operations became largely obsolete in the Iowa National Guard. Rather than scrapping the railcars, the Camp Dodge Training Center arranged to have them transported to the James H. Andrew Railroad Museum in Boone, Iowa, for historical preservation.

U.S. Marines Corps Lance Cpl. Chancellor Reynolds, left, and Cpl. Miguel Velazquez, right, both combat engineers with Bravo Company, 9th Engineer Support Battalion, 3rd Marine Logistics Group, transport concertina wire to reinforce a defensive position at Camp Rodriguez, Republic of Korea, July 11, 2022. Marines with 9th ESB are participating 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.

U.S. Soldiers, assigned to 21st Theater Sustainment Command, conduct combat casualty care on a simulated casualty at a medical lane during the U.S. Army Europe and Africa Best Squad Competition at Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany, Aug. 9, 2022. Teams across U.S. Army Europe and Africa test their tactical proficiency, communication, and overall cohesion as they compete for the title of Best Squad. Winners of this competition will advance to represent U.S. Army Europe and Africa at the U.S. Army Best Squad Competition at Fort Bragg, North Carolina later this year.

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Christopher Ramos, an explosive ordnance technician with the 99th Civil Engineer Squadron, attaches a remote pull rope to a simulated explosive ordnance cache during Jungle Crab 22 at Jungle Warfare Training Center, Okinawa, Japan, June 23, 2022. During Jungle Crab 22 EOD Marines prepared to support Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations by practicing survival methods in areas where logistical support may not be available. 3rd MLG, based out of Okinawa, Japan, is a forward deployed combat unit that serves as III Marine Expeditionary Forces comprehensive logistics and combat service support backbone for operations throughout the Indo-Pacific area of responsibility.

Soldiers from the Idaho National Guards 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team conducted a mass casualty exercise during the Exportable Combat Training Capability rotation on Orchard Combat Training Center, Idaho on June 10, 2018. The training allowed the medics to exercise and enhance their process of treating casualties in a simulated combat environment. (Nevada Army National Guard

Roughly 60 Navy hospital corpsmen participated in Operation Commanding Force, the annual two-week training exercise, at Fort Drum. The culminating event on July 21 included tactical field care and medical evacuation procedures with reservists going through a litter obstacle course. The training was supported by cadre from the Bridgewater-Vaccaro Medical Simulation Training Center (MSTC), the 10th Combat Aviation Brigades 3rd General Support Aviation Battalion (DUSTOFF) and medics from 1st Brigade Combat Team and 2nd Brigade Combat Team. (Photo by Mike Strasser, Fort Drum Garrison Public Affairs)

U.S. Marines with Marine Rotational Force-Darwin (MRF-D) 22 prepare puff charges for emergency destruction training at Mount Bundey Training Area, NT, Australia, Sept. 6, 2022. The training provided emergency destruction certification to MRF-D 22 ammunition technicians while disposing of unserviceable ammunition.

Paratroopers with the 82nd Airborne Division's 1st Brigade Combat Team discover a weapons cache while sweeping a remote mountain village June 3, 2012, Ghazni Province, Afghanistan. The village is a suspected Taliban safe haven.

U.S. Marines assigned to Marine Wing Support Squadron 172, 4th Marine Regiment, and 3rd Maintenance Battalion set up an expeditionary Light-Weight Water Purification System during an expeditionary water purification competition at U.S. Army Garrison, Okinawa, Japan, on June 22, 2022. The event was a collaborative event within the III MEF engineer utilities community to foster competition and improve tactics, techniques, and procedures in alignment with force design.

PIERRE, S.D. - State Command Sgt. Maj Larry Zimmerman talks with CW5 Lonnie Hofer, State Safety Officer and Sgt. 1st Class Eric Flatmoe (left), a platoon sergeant with the South Dakota Army National Guard's 3rd Platoon, 842nd Engineer Company as they finish the construction of a levee surrounding the Best Western Ramkota Hotel, June 1, 2011 to prevent water damage from the rising Missouri River. More than 900 South Dakota Army and Air Guardsmen have been called upon to assist in the flood relief efforts throughout the state. (SDNG

221004-M-AI445-1173 (October 4, 2022) U.S. Marines assigned to Combat Logistics Battalion 11, Task Force San Francisco, participate in a marksmanship competition against other service members and staff as part of San Francisco Fleet Week (SFFW). SFFW is an opportunity for the American public to meet their Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard teams and experience Americas sea services. During fleet week, service members participate in various community service event, showcase capabilities and equipment to the community, and enjoy the hospitality of the city and its surrounding areas.

U.S. Army Maj. Gen. John H. Phillips, third from left; a native of Pennsylvania and the director for the J-6 command, control, communications, and computers / cyber for U.S. European Command; receives a satellite communications antenna demonstration from U.S. Marines with Combat Logistics Battalion 6, Combat Logistics Regiment 2, 2nd Marine Logistics Group, and Marines with U.S. Marine Corps Forces Europe and Africa, at Setermoen, Norway, Feb. 26, 2024. Phillips engaged with communications Marines in preparation for Exercise Nordic Response 24. Exercise Nordic Response, formerly known as Cold Response, is a NATO training event conducted every two years to promote military competency in arctic environments and to foster interoperability between the U.S. Marine Corps and allied nations. Marine Corps

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