Two U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle aircraft fly over northern Iraq Sept. 23, 2014, after conducting airstrikes in Syria. The aircraft were part of a large coalition strike package that was the first to strike Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) targets in Syria. President Barack Obama authorized humanitarian aid deliveries to Iraq as well as targeted airstrikes to protect U.S. personnel from extremists known as ISIL. U.S. Central Command directed the operations. (DoD photo by Senior Airman Matthew Bruch, U.S. Air Force/Released)
Sergeant Bobby Johnson's hat flies off as he watches with other United States Army Soldiers as the Black Hawk helicopters take off after their emergency management consequence training exercise during the mock disaster in Montague on Sept. 24, 2014. (AP Photo/The Muskegon Chronicle, Andraya Croft)
This US Air Forces Central Command photo released by the Defense Video & Imagery Distribution System (DVIDS) shows US Air Force Maj. Erik Schillo, a KC-135 Stratotanker pilot with the 340th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron, pre-flighting his jet before taking off from a base in the US Central Command Area of Responsibility in support of a mission to conduct air strikes in Syria, September 23, 2014. Multiple KC-135 Stratotankers were part of a large coalition strike package that was the first to strike ISIL targets in Syria. AFP PHOTO / US Air Force / Staff Sgt. Shawn Nickel == RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE / MANDATORY CREDIT: "AFP PHOTO / US Air Forces Central Command via DVIDS / Staff Sgt. Shawn Nickel" / NO SALES / NO MARKETING / NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS / DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS ==Staff Sgt. Shawn Nickel/AFP/Getty Images
A picture dated on June 13, 2014 and made available by UAE's official news agency WAM on September 25, 2014 shows Major Mariam al-Mansouri, the first female pilote to join the Emirates Air Forces, gesturing as she sits in the cockpit of her F-16 fighter jet. Mansouri, 35, "led the squadron" of UAE fighter jets that participated in raids targeting Islamic State jihadists in Syria as part of the US-led campaign against extremists. She is reportedly the first female UAE pilot of a fighter jet. She graduated from Abu Dhabi's Khalifa bin Zayed Air College in 2007 and is veteran pilot of F-16 warplanes. AFP PHOTO/HO/WAM == RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO/HO/WAM" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS ==HO/AFP/Getty Images
U.S. Marines with Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, assigned to the 3rd Marine Division, III Marine Expeditionary Force participate in an island seizure exercise in a compound held by Soldiers with the 1st Battalion, 294th Infantry Regiment, Guam Army National Guard who were role-playing as the opposing forces during Valiant Shield 2014 in Tinian, Northern Mariana Islands, Sept. 20, 2014. Valiant Shield is a biennial U.S. Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps exercise held in Guam, focusing on real-world proficiency in sustaining joint forces at sea, in the air, on land and in cyberspace. (DoD photo by Lance Cpl. Tyler Ngiraswei, U.S. Marine Corps/Released)
U.S. Navy C-2A Greyhound aircraft ground support personnel and crew members taxi the aircraft in support of exercise Valiant Shield 2014 at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, Sept. 18, 2014. Valiant Shield is a biennial U.S. Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps exercise held in Guam, focusing on real-world proficiency in sustaining joint forces at sea, in the air, on land and in cyberspace. (DoD photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Chelsy Alamina, U.S. Navy/Released)
ARLINGTON, VA - SEPTEMBER 24: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army Gen. Martin Dempsey speaks during the Newman's Own Award Ceremony at the Pentagon, September 24, 2014 in Arlington Virginia. Newmans Own is partnered with the Fisher House and Military Times to give grants to various nonprofit volunteer groups and has given away more than one million dollars to 158 organizations. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
About 500 Shiite volunteers from Tal Afar attend a combat training session at a military camp in the Shiite shrine city of Karbala in central Iraq on September 25, 2014 to join the fight against jihadists of the Islamic State (IS) group which led a sweeping offensive in June that overran much of the country's Sunni Arab heartland. The militant organisation has taken control of important cities including Mosul, Saddam Hussein's hometown Tikrit and Tal Afar in northern Iraq, as well as Fallujah and part of Ramadi in the west. AFP PHOTO / MOHAMMED SAWAFMOHAMMED SAWAF/AFP/Getty Images
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