Best pics of the week: Sept. 30, 2018

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  • U.S. soldiers assigned to the 1st Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade engaged targets with the Carl Gustaf 84mm weapon system in Grafenwoehr, Germany, Sept. 8, 2018, during Saber Junction 18. (Capt. Joseph Legros/Army)
  • A KC-130J Hercules Aerial Refueling Tanker and an F-35B Lightning II conduct an aerial refueling on Sept. 18, 2018, during Exercise Valiant Shield 18 while flying to Andersen Air Force Base, Guam. (Lance Cpl. Seth Rosenberg/Marine Corps)
  • A U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III sits on the flightline, Sept. 16, 2018, at Joint Base Charleston, S.C.. Following Hurricane Florence, Air Force search and rescue assets staged at Charleston in order to be ready to provide rescue capabilities if the need were to arise. (Staff Sgt. Ryan Callaghan/Air Force)
  • Vehicles are staged outside of Forward Operating Base Gerber, near Camp Buehring, Kuwait, as soldiers from the Mississippi National Guard’s 155th Armored Brigade Combat Team prepare to use them to conduct Iron Union 8 training exercise with United Arab Emirates. (Staff Sgt. Michael Williams/Army National Guard)
  • A U.S. Navy F/A-18E Super Hornet returns to Andersen Air Force Base in Guam from a mission on Sept. 19, 2018, in support of exercise Valiant Shield 2018. (Senior Master Sgt. Roger Parsons/Air National Guard)
  • A U.S. Air Force B-52H Stratofortress bomber and two Koku Jieitai (Japan Air Self-Defense Force) F-15 fighters execute a routine bilateral training mission on Sept. 26, 2018, over the East China Sea and the Sea of Japan. This mission was flown in support of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command’s continuous bomber presence operations, which are key to improving combined interoperability, tactical skills and relationships. These missions are consistent with international law and the United States’ long-standing and well-known freedom of navigation policies. (USINDOPACOM)
  • The amphibious assault ship USS Wasp (LHD 1) performs maneuvers Sept. 27, 2018, as sailors and Marines assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit fire weapons at a target during a Defense of the Amphibious Task Force drill in the South China Sea. (MC1 Daniel Barker/Navy)
  • A U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer, assigned to the 337th Test and Evaluation Squadron, Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, takes off at Andersen AFB, Guam, on Sept. 23, 2018. Valiant Shield is a biennial, U.S. only, field training exercise with a focus on integration of joint training among U.S. forces. (Senior Airman Gerald R. Willis/Air Force)

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