Best pics of the week: Aug. 20, 2018

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  • Air Force Senior Airman James Bridge, 77th Aircraft Maintenance Unit load crew team member, left center, and Staff Sgt. Samuel Ortiz, 77th AMU load crew team lead, remove a CCG laser guided seeker from a GBU-10 at Shaw Air Force Base, S.C., Aug. 9, 2018. Load crew teams are required to perform training on loading and unloading all munitions from ShawÕs F-16CM Fighting Falcons. (SA Christopher Maldonado/Air Force)
  • A diver explores the wreckage of an American fighter plane from the Second World War, the Lockheed P-38G Lightning, at 38 meters of depth, on August 12, 2018, off the coast of La Ciotat, southern France. The plane was shot down by the German Air Force on January 27, 1944 and the pilot Harry R. Greenup was taken prisoner. (BORIS HORVAT/AFP/Getty Images)
  • Seaman Cesar Ramirez-Fajardo maneuvers through razor wire at the Jungle Warfare Training Center, Camp Gonsalves, Okinawa, Japan. Ramirez-Fajardo, from Orlando, Florida, is a field medical service technician with 3rd Law Enforcement Battalion, III Marine Expeditionary Force Information Group. While going through certain obstacles, Marines and Sailors were required to move through murky water, confined spaces and razor wire. (Pfc. Andrew R. Bray/Marine Corps)
  • The Air Force, Marine Corps and British soldiers conduct Exercise Black Lion and Caduceus in support of Atlantic Resolve, an enduring training exercise between NATO and U.S. Forces at Mihail Kogalniceanu Air Base in Romania, August 16, 2018. U.S. and NATO forces worked together as a cohesive unit to execute a downed aircraft search and rescue mission. (Spc. Hannah Tarkelly/Army)
  • Two hornets and an Osprey with Marine Medium Tilt Rotor Squadron fly over Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, Calif., as a part of an aerial flight formation exercise August 12, 2018. (Lance Cpl. Rachel K. Young/Marine Corps)
  • A Marine with 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division provides security during Military Operations in Urban Terrain training as part of Integrated Training Exercise 5-18 at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, Calif., August 11, 2018. (Lance Cpl. Aaron Douds/Marine Corps)
  • Air Force, Marine Corps and British soldiers conduct Exercise Black Lion and Caduceus, a medical evacuation exercise, in support of Atlantic Resolve, an enduring training exercise between NATO and U.S. Forces at Mihail Kogalniceanu Air Base in Romania, August 16, 2018. U.S. and NATO forces worked together as a cohesive unit to execute a downed aircraft search and rescue mission. (Spc. Hannah Tarkelly/Army)
  • The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Carney (DDG 64) transits the Mediterranean Sea beneath a star covered sky. Carney, forward-deployed to Rota, Spain, is on its fifth patrol in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of operations in support of regional allies and partners as well as U.S. national security interests in Europe and Africa. (MC1 Ryan U. Kledzik/Navy)
  • A group of US Army soldiers take part in a yearly military parade celebrating the Polish Army Day in Warsaw, Poland, Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2018. Poland marks Army Day with a parade and a call for US permanent military base in Poland. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)
  • An Airman checks behind a simulated military escort for combatants at the Emergency Medical Technician Rodeo at Melrose Air Force Range, N.M., August 8, 2018. A total of 21 Air Force bases from around the world visited MAFR and Cannon Air Force Base, New Mexico, to participate in the EMT Rodeo, giving the technicians a wide assortment of scenarios to test their knowledge and training in the medical field. (A!C Gage Daniel/ Air Force)
  • Four F-22 Raptors from the 95th Fighter Squadron, 325th Fighter Wing, Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla., participating in a multi-aircraft flyover in Warsaw, Poland during the 100th Anniversary of Polish Independence and Armed Forces Day. The F-22s forward deployed from Spangdahlem Air Base Germany, to Powidz Air Base, Poland on Aug. 14 for theater familiarization and to conduct interoperability with Polish and NATO aircraft. (SA Joshua Magbanua/Air Force)
  • Lt. Michelle Tanalega, an instructor at the Surface Warfare Officer School (SWOS), goes over the operation of a Conning Officer Virtual Environment (NSS COVE I) simulator with Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC) Midshipman 1st Class James Olsen, a rising senior at the George Washington University from Portland, Oregon. More than 15 midshipmen, from NROTC units across the country, competed to be named the 2018 NROTC National Ship-handler of the Year. The three-day event used the COVE I and III simulators at SWOS as the midshipmen were judged in several virtual reality conning and ship driving scenarios. (Scott A. Thornbloom/Navy)

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