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A member of the Iraqi Army’s digging team, who supports the Air Force Engineering Installation team with various types of heavy equipment, layers the floor of a manhole site with gravel at Camp Taji, Iraq, Sep. 30, 2019. In support of Combined Joint Task Force-Operation INHERENT RESOLVE, the EI team bolsters lethality and enhances US and allied forces’ decision making through remediation of legacy communications solutions throughout Camp Taji, Iraq. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Luke Kitterman)

Air Force E & I team spark communication improvements at Camp Taji

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1AD teams with U.S. Air Force for strategic exercise

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A pilot flying an MC-130J Commando II assigned to the 17th Special Operations Squadron, 353rd Special Operations Group, Kadena Air Base, Japan, completes refueling operations with a KC-135 Stratotanker from the 909th Air Refueling Squadron, KAB, during Exercise Gryphon Pacific 20-1, Nov. 15, 2019, over the Pacific Ocean. Aerial refueling in order to expedite the operational timeline was essential to ensuring success during the exercise. Launching from Guam, two MC-130J Commando II aircraft with Global Access Special Tactics teams onboard rapidly established and controlled landing zones capable of facilitating additional forces at both Wake Island and Kwajalein Atoll in the same night. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Benjamin Sutton)

Anytime, Anywhere: Gryphon Pacific 20-1 challenges Special Operators

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Marines with Battalion Landing Team, 1st Battalion, 5th Marines, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, prepare Combat Rubber Raiding Craft during a simulated boat raid, on Kin Blue, Okinawa, Japan, Dec. 5th, 2019. The 31st MEU is currently preparing for deployment through MEU Exercise, a two-week evolution that prepares the Marine Air Ground Task Force for amphibious operations integrated with the Navy. The 31st MEU, the Marine Corps’ only continuously forward deployed MEU, provides a flexible and lethal force ready to perform a wide range of military-operations. (Official U.S. Marine Corps Photo by Sgt Audrey M. C. Rampton)

BLT 1/5 conducts simulated boat raid at Kin Blue

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SECFOR Provides Base Defense in Somalia

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SAN DIEGO (Dec. 4, 2019) – Sailors combat a simulated fire during a flight deck fire drill aboard Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2). Essex is underway for the first time following an eight-month planned maintenance availability. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class William Phillips/RELEASED)

USS ESSEX Sea Trials

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191105-N-MD802-1019 GULF OF ADEN (Nov. 5, 2019) A MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter, attached to the “Proud Warriors” of Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron 72, prepares to land on the flight deck of the guided-missile destroyer USS Farragut (DDG 99). Farragut is part of the East Coast Surface Action Group and is operating in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations in support of naval operations to ensure maritime stability and security in the Central Region, connecting the Mediterranean and the Pacific through the Western Indian Ocean and three strategic choke points. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Jack D. Aistrup)

Flight Ops USS Farragut

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191113-N-MD802-1545 GULF OF OMAN (Nov. 13, 2019) Gas Turbine Systems Technician (Mechanical) 2nd Class Michael Beal, a member of the visit, board, search and seizure (VBSS) team aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Farragut (DDG 99), participates in VBSS training on the fo’c’sle. Farragut is part of the East Coast Surface Action Group and is operating in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations in support of naval operations to ensure maritime stability and security in the Central Region, connecting the Mediterranean and the Pacific through the Western Indian Ocean and three strategic choke points. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Jack D. Aistrup)

VBSS Training aboard USS Farragut

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U.S. Marines assigned to Comanche Company, 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division, prepare and execute training during Steel Knight 20 (SK20) at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, California on 2 Dec. 2019. SK20 is an annual training exercise executed by approximately 13,000 Marines and Sailors designed to improve and assess the 1st Marine Division’s ability to fight and win a complex, dispersed, peer or near-peer threat. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Benjamin Aulick)

3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion at Steel Knight 20 (SK20)

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U.S. Marine Crops 1st Lt. William Mayes, a platoon commander, left, and Lance Cpl. Fox Mosher, an infantry rifleman, center, both with Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, use an L3Harris Falcon III An/PRC-117G as a form of communication during Steel Knight 20 (SK20) at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, Dec. 6, 2019. SK20 is an annual training exercise executed by approximately 13,000 Marines and Sailors designed to improve and assess the 1st Marine Division’s ability to fight and win against a peer or near-peer threat. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Ana S. Madrigal)

Steel Knight 2020 Amphibious Assualt

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