Secretary of Defense Ash Carter speaks by phone with Army 1st Lt. Shaye Haver and 1st Lt. Kristen Griest to congratulate the two for their recent graduation from the rigorous Army Ranger School from his office at the Pentagon, Aug. 20, 2015. Haver and Griest are the first women to successfully complete the course after the Army began allowing women to participate in the elite program. (DOD Photo by Glenn Fawcett/Released)
Air Force commandos practice extinguishing an aircraft fire during an exercise on Cannon Air Force Base, N.M., Aug. 14, 2015. The commandos, assigned to the 27th Special Operations Civil Engineer Squadron, conducted joint fire training on base with the Clovis, N.M., fire department as part of a mutual aide agreement. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Alexxis Mercer
U.S. Soldiers of 173rd Airborne Brigade descend from the sky after exiting a C-130 Hercules aircraft while conducting airborne operations during exercise Allied Spirit II at the U.S. Army’s Joint Multinational Readiness Center in Hohenfels, Germany, Aug. 13, 2015. Allied Spirit II is a multinational decisive action training environment exercise that involves over 3,500 Soldiers from both the U.S., allied, and partner nations focused on building partnerships and interoperability between all participating nations and emphasizing mission command, intelligence, sustainment and fires. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Justin De Hoyos /Released)
A U.S. Navy Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC) departs a beach in Arta, Djibouti, July 20, 2015. LCACs for USS Anchorage delivered U.S. Marines from the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit and their equipment for sustainment training. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Maria Bowman)
Capt. Kristen Griest and 1st Lt. Shaye Haver speak with the media at Fort Benning, Georgia, after becoming the first women ever to complete the Army's fabled Ranger School. Video courtesy of the Defense Department
Rct. Brendan T. Slossar, Platoon 2081, Golf Company, 2nd Recruit Training Battalion, slides down a Confidence Course obstacle Aug. 17, 2015, on Parris Island, S.C. This obstacle requires recruits to slide across a rope in three different positions without falling into the pond beneath. Slossar, 18, from Port Huron, Mich., is scheduled to graduate Oct. 23, 2015. Parris Island has been the site of Marine Corps recruit training since Nov. 1, 1915. Today, approximately 20,000 recruits come to Parris Island annually for the chance to become United States Marines by enduring 13 weeks of rigorous, transformative training. Parris Island is home to entry-level enlisted training for approximately 50 percent of males and 100 percent of females in the Marine Corps. (Photo by Sgt. Jennifer Schubert)
Aviators from the California Army National Guard’s 1st Battalion, 126th Aviation Regiment, Sgt. Matthew Hammond, left, crew chief, and Sgt. Jameson Freymond, flight engineer, maneuver a Bambi bucket into their CH-47 Chinook Aug. 18 following a wildfire mission in Northern California. (U.S. Army National Guard photo/Staff Sgt. Eddie Siguenza)
Members of the Air Force Honor Guard stand by to present the colors during a wreath-laying ceremony commemorating the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, Aug. 14, 2015, at the Air Force Memorial in Arlington, Va. (Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Joshua L. DeMotts)
150815-N-PD309-006 SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (Aug. 15, 2015) A tender boat is hoisted aboard the Military Sealift Command (MSC) hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) off the coast of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic during Continuing Promise 2015. Continuing Promise is a U.S. Southern Command-sponsored and U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command/U.S. 4th Fleet-conducted deployment to conduct civil-military operations including humanitarian-civil assistance, subject matter expert exchanges, medical, dental, veterinary and engineering support and disaster response to partner nations and to show U.S. support and commitment to Central and South America and the Caribbean. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Deven Leigh Ellis/Released)
The Experimental Aircraft Association’s B-17, also known as “Aluminum Overcast,” banks right above Hill Air Force Base, Utah, Aug. 13, 2015. EAA’s B-17 is painted to resemble B-17G No. 42-102515 of the 398th Bombardment Group (Heavy) that flew from Royal Air Force Nuthampstead, England, during World War II. That aircraft was shot down over Le Manior, France, on Aug. 13, 1944, during its 34th combat mission. (U.S. Air Force photo/R. Nial Bradshaw)
Marine recruiters from the subdivision of St. Joseph walk off the Kansas City Chiefs practice field during Military Day at NFL football training camp, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2015 in St. Joseph, Mo. (Andrew Carpenean/The St. Joseph News-Press via AP)
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