Builder 2nd Class Khiaro Promise, assigned to Underwater Construction Team One (UCT ONE), conducts scuba dive during diver training aboard USAV Matamoros (LCU-2026). Diver training is a two-week, joint training evolution between UCT ONE and Underwater Construction Team Two designed to reinforce standard operating procedures, qualify personnel, maintain proficiency, and evaluate dive protocol during scuba, surface supplied and recompression chamber operations. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Tyler N. Thompson/Released)U.S. Army Pvt. 1st Class Arias patrols past a group of Afghan children while providing security in a rural area near the Nangarhar Police Regional Logistics Center in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province, Jan. 6, 2015. Arias is assigned to the 3rd Cavalry Regiment, Train, Advise, Assist Command East.
U.S. Army photo by Capt. Jarrod Morris U.S. Marines with the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit's Maritime Raid Force board a gas and oil platform during maritime interoperability training off the coast of Santa Barbara, Calif., Jan. 16, 2015. MIT prepares the MRF for their upcoming deployment by enhancing their combat skills, and teaching them techniques for boarding vessels. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Jamean Berry/ Released)U.S. Marines assigned to 4th Marine Regiment unfold tents during the setup of the Fire Support Coordination Center (FSCC) aboard Camp Wilson, Twentynine Palms, Calif., Jan. 17th, 2015. The Marines assigned to 4th Marine Regiment are participating in this Integrated Training Exercise (ITX) to act as a command element for the Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force (SPMAGTF), in which 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment falls under in preparation of their upcoming Unit Deployment Program (UDP) to Okinawa, Japan. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Aaron S. Patterson, MCBH Combat Camera/Released)U.S. Soldiers from Company A, 1-111th Aviation Battalion, South Carolina Army National Guard, load a UH-60 Black Hawk onto a C-17 Globemaster III from the 701ST Airlift Squadron, 315th Airlift Wing, Joint Base Charleston, during drill weekend at McEntire Joint National Guard Base, Eastover, S.C., Jan. 10, 2015. The joint training exercise allows both units to gain knowledge, practice, and experience loading a UH-60 Black Hawk, and provides an opportunity for the South Carolina Army National Guard to meet the Army’s Future Force projection of a knowledge-based component of a joint, interagency, intergovernmental, multinational (JIIM) force. (U.S. Army National Guard Photo by Staff Sgt. Di Giovine / Released)A 31st Rescue Squadron pararescueman freefalls with a parachute after jumping from a 36th Airlift Squadron C-130 Hercules during training missions over Yokota Air Base, Japan, Jan. 7, 2015. The training was part of ‘Jump Week’, a week-long training during which members of the 31st RQS link up with the 36th AS to maintain mission readiness and rescue tactics in preparation for real-world emergencies. (U.S. Air Force photo by Osakabe Yasuo/Released)U.S. Marine Cpl. Gilbert B. Heath, a low altitude air defense gunner with 2nd Platoon, Bravo Battery, 3rd Low Altitude Air Defense Battalion and Security Forces, Special Purpose Marine Air Ground Task Force-Crisis Response-Central Command, does a tactical reload during a live fire and maneuver exercise on Jan. 11, 2015, in the Central Command area of operations. The live fire exercise was conducted to prepare for a future, larger-scale range to help keep SPMAGTF-CR-CC’s Security Forces primed and ready if called to action. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Tony Simmons/Released)U.S. Army Spc. John Gilbert, left, U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Christopher Bentley, center, commander of Train, Advise, Assist Command East, and U.S. Army 1st Lt. Steven Sanders depart a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province, Jan. 6, 2015. Gilbert and Sanders are assigned to the 3rd Cavalry Regiment, Train, Advise, Assist Command East.
U.S. Army photo by Capt. Jarrod Morris U.S. Army medics evacuate casualties to a nearby location during a training exercise on Hohenfels Training Area in Hohenfels, Germany, Jan. 16, 2015. The soldiers are assigned to 4th Squadron, 2nd Cavalry Regiment.
U.S. Army Photo by Sgt. William Tanner Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, listens as a student asks a question during a Keystone leadership course at the National Defense University on Fort McNair in Washington D.C., Jan., 15, 2015. The course objective is to educate command senior enlisted leaders.
DoD photo by U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Daniel Hinton
