The Air Force is training military dogs to sniff out explosives and drugs and to also bite on command for deployment purposes. Staff Sergeant Chad Bunda works with his two-year-old German Shepard "Bastas" at Hill Air Force Base on Wednesday, July 1, 2015. (Briana Scroggins/Standard-Examiner via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT LOCAL TV OUTWorld War II veteran Sgt. Jack A. Rickel, of Front Royal, Va., left, receives overdue medals from retired Lt. Gen. Edgar E. Stanton, III, Wednesday, July 8, 2015, in a ceremony held in Winchester, Va. The medals were over 60 years overdue because of Rickel mistakingly being listed as missing-in-action and an Army records warehouse fire, according to The Winchester Star. (Scott Mason/The Winchester Star via AP) MANDATORY CREDITGen. Joseph Dunford attends a hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee about his nomination to be the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, July 9, 2015. Dunford is currently Commandant of the Marine Corps.ROCKHAMPTON, AUSTRALIA - JULY 08: U.S Paratroopers from the 4/25th Infantry Division make a jump from a C-17 Globemaster as part of exercise Talisman Sabre on July 8, 2015 in Rockhampton, Australia. Talisman Sabre is a biennial military exercise that trains Australian and U.S. forces to plan and conduct combined task force operations to improve combat readiness and interoperability on a variety of missions from conventional conflict to peacekeeping and humanitarian assistance efforts. TS15 will incorporate force preparation activities, Special Forces activities, amphibious landings, parachuting, land force manoeuvre, urban operations, air operations, maritime operations and the coordinated firing of live ammunition and explosive ordnance from small arms, artillery, naval vessels and aircraft. (Photo by Ian Hitchcock/Getty Images)U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Carlos Peralta with India Company, 3rd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force—Crisis Response—Central Command, uses an entrenching tool to prepare a heavy machine gun emplacement during the unit’s Mission Readiness Exercise in Southwest Asia, June 24, 2015. The Marines and Sailors of SPMAGTF-CR-CC provide the commander of USCENTCOM with a flexible, task-organized set of solutions to emerging crisis within an area of responsibility spanning 20 countries. (U.S. Marine Corps Photo by Corporal Cansin P. Hardyegritag)U.S. Marines practice an amphibious assault in amphibious vehicles during Talisman Sabre 2015 at Fog Bay, Australia, July 8, 2015. The biennial exercise enables nearly 30,000 U.S. and Australian defense forces to conduct operations to increase their ability to plan and execute operations from combat missions to humanitarian assistance efforts. The Marines are assigned to 2nd Battalion, 5th Regiment.
U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Louis Rojas 150708-N-CF750-196
RABAUL, Papua New Guinea (July 7, 2015) Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron Two One performs a search and rescue demonstration in Rabaul, Papua New Guinea, as part of Pacific Partnership humanitarian and disaster relief training. USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) is in Papua New Guinea for its second mission port of PP15. Pacific Partnership is in its tenth iteration and is the largest annual multilateral humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness mission conducted in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region. While training for crisis conditions, Pacific Partnership missions to date have provided real world medical care to approximately 270,000 patients and veterinary services to more than 38,000 animals. Critical infrastructure development has been supported in host nations during more than 180 engineering projects. (U.S. Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Greg Badger/Released)A U.S. soldier trains his working dog on Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, July 4, 2015. The soldier is assigned to the 709th Military Police Battalion, 18th Military Police Brigade. U.S. Army photo by Chief Warrant Officer 2 Ryan BoasU.S. Marines attend an opening ceremony for the Agile Spirit 2015 military exercises at the Vaziani base, outside Tbilisi, Georgia, Wednesday, July 8, 2015. The two-week-long exercises, which began Wednesday at the Vaziani base, are to focus on peacekeeping and support activities. About 220 U.S. troops are taking part, while platoon-level contingents from Lithuania, Latvia, Romania and Bulgaria are present. (AP Photo/Shakh Aivazov) Lieutenant Colonel Michale Yap (R) of the US Army receives a pin in honor of those whose served in the US armed forces from November 1, 1955 to May 15, 1975 during a Congressional ceremony in the Emancipation Hall of the US Capitol in Washington, DC on July 8, 2015, to mark the 50th anniversary of Vietnam War. AFP PHOTO/MANDEL NGANMANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty ImagesThe guided-missile destroyer USS Preble is underway to participate in exercise Talisman Sabre 2015 in the Timor Sea, July 6, 2015. The bilateral training exercise help to maintain a high level of interoperability between U.S. and Australian forces.
U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class David Flewellyn
