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U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Sean Kloc, 2nd Battalion, 23rd Marine Regiment from Los Angeles, Calif., provides security on a corner during danger-crossing scenarios during UNITAS-Partnership of the Americas 2012 on Sept. 5.

UNITAS-Partnership of the Americas gives the participating multinational troops from Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay an opportunity to exercise critical thinking based on realistic scenarios, reinforce essential tactics and techniques and build on a strong foundation of professional cooperation.

Capt. Dennis Zabka checks his mask for leaks at Barksdale Air Force Base, La., Aug. 27, 2012. Zabka, a pilot assigned to the 11th Bomb Squadron. is competing in the Global Strike Challenge. 

Chief Personnel Specialist Kevin Sun, assigned to the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) reunites with his dog and other loved ones in Pearl Harbor after completing Pacific Partnership 2012. Mercy is in Pearl Harbor to drop off several partner nations and other crew on its way back to San Diego after the completion of Pacific Partnership 2012.

Sgt. Maj. Micheal P. Barrett, the 17th Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps, participates in the military funeral for retired Sgt. Maj. Henry H. Black, the 7th Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps, at Quantico National Cemetery, Triangle, Va. 

U.S. Army soldiers from 50th Brigade, 1st Battalion, 114th Infantry mortar platoon, New Jersey Army National Guard, fire 81mm mortars at Fort Drum, N.Y., during training on Aug. 19. The 1-114 IN has its headquarters in Woodbury, Gloucester County, N.J.

A crew aboard a new 45-foot Response Boat – Medium from Coast Guard Station Cape Charles, Va., conducts tactical turn training in the Chesapeake Bay, Friday, Aug. 24, 2012. The station’s RB-M is the 100th boat of 166 being delivered to the Coast Guard to replace the aging 41-foot Utility Boat fleet.

Soldiers from the 325th Combat Support Hospital, 139th Medical Brigade, 807th Medical Command (Deployment Support), deployed from Independence, Mo., work on patients, in an 84 bed combat support hospital that the unit built from the ground up a week prior, in a mass casualty exercise for disaster relief on Sagami (Army) General Depot in Sagamihara Japan, during U.S. Army Pacific’s Medical Exercise 2012.

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Brandon Bamford (left), 2nd Cavalry Regiment, pushes through a 12 mile foot march during U.S. Army Europe’s Expert Infantryman Badge qualification in Grafenwoehr, Germany.

Flight deck personnel watch as a CH-53E Sea Stallion helicopter assigned to the Flying Tigers of Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron (HMM) 262 takes off from the flight deck aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6). Bonhomme Richard, commanded by is the lead ship of the only forward-deployed amphibious assault group.

Caroline Scott welcomes home husband, Sgt. Jerry Scott, a paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team, Aug. 20, 2012, at Pope Army Airfield’s Green Ramp, Fort Bragg, N.C. Sgt. Scott’s unit is returning from a six-month deployment to Afghanistan.

Soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 204th Air Defense Artillery travel through flooded waters on Washington St. in Ocean Springs, Miss. on Tuesday morning, August 28. The Newton-based Guard unit is among approximately 1500 Mississippi National Guardsmen responding to Hurricane Isaac.

Four UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters from the 1st Air Cavalry Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division take off simultaneously from Cooper Field Aug. 21, here. The 1st ACB returned to Fort Hood this past May after a year-long deployment to Afghanistan where the brigade provided aviation assets to coalition ground forces across four regional commands.