McEntire Joint National Guard Base, home of the South Carolina Air National Guard’s 169th Fighter Wing, co-hosts nighttime arming and refueling training during Exercise Agile Lion, Jan. 14, 2020. Multi-functional Airmen and F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jets from the 4th Fighter Wing at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, N.C., execute integrated combat turns during the exercise. This training simulates mobile command and control which enables joint interoperability. A C-130J Hercules military transport aircraft from the 19th Airlift Wing, Little Rock Air Force Base, Ark., assists in the prepositioning of support personnel, equipment and fuel needed to support the fleet of F-15s participating in the exercise. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Master Sgt. Edward Snyder, 169th Fighter Wing Public Affairs)

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McEntire Joint National Guard Base, home of the South Carolina Air National Guard’s 169th Fighter Wing, co-hosts nighttime arming and refueling training during Exercise Agile Lion, Jan. 14, 2020. Multi-functional Airmen and F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jets from the 4th Fighter Wing at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, N.C., execute integrated combat turns during the exercise. This training simulates mobile command and control which enables joint interoperability. A C-130J Hercules military transport aircraft from the 19th Airlift Wing, Little Rock Air Force Base, Ark., assists in the prepositioning of support personnel, equipment and fuel needed to support the fleet of F-15s participating in the exercise. (U.S. Air Force photo by Capt. Stephen Hudson, 169th Fighter Wing Public Affairs)

LEGAZPI, Philippines (July 6, 2016) Personnel assigned to hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) dance with local audience members during a Pacific Partnership 2016 U.S. Pacific Fleet Band performance at Penaranda Park. Community relation events bring together the local community and Pacific Partnership personnel and are an essential component of the mission. Pacific Partnership is visiting the Philippines for the seventh time since its first visit in 2006. Partner nations are working side-by-side with local military and non-government organizations to conduct cooperative health engagements, community relation events and subject matter expert exchanges to better prepare for natural disaster or crisis. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Lindsey E. Skelton/Released)

C-130H Hercules transports with the 440th Airlift Wing approach Pope Army Airfield, April 17, 2014 for a joint airborne operation. Sixty active and Army Reserve Soldiers from Fort Bragg, N.C. and 30 Air Force special tactics airmen from Pope participated in the event highlighting the joint capabilities of the men and women of who serve in the 440th and the airborne forces. (U.S. Army photo by Timothy L. Hale/Released)

McEntire Joint National Guard Base, home of the South Carolina Air National Guard’s 169th Fighter Wing, co-hosts nighttime arming and refueling training during Exercise Agile Lion, Jan. 14, 2020. Multi-functional Airmen and F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jets from the 4th Fighter Wing at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, N.C., execute integrated combat turns during the exercise. This training simulates mobile command and control which enables joint interoperability. A C-130J Hercules military transport aircraft from the 19th Airlift Wing, Little Rock Air Force Base, Ark., assists in the prepositioning of support personnel, equipment and fuel needed to support the fleet of F-15s participating in the exercise. (U.S. Air Force photo by Capt. Stephen Hudson, 169th Fighter Wing Public Affairs)

Local Afghan contractors work at the construction site of the new Cadastre building in Kandahar, Jan. 23. Afghan contractors demolished the old building, cleaned the site, and laid the foundation for the new building. The Kandahar Provincial Reconstruction Team works to mentor the Afghan provincial government with its increasing workload involving similar projects. (U.S. Army Photo by Staff Sgt. Jeff Neff/Released)

A Royal New Zealand Air Force C-130H Hercules, with the No. 40 Squadron, drops a high velocity combat deliver system above Londonderry Drop Zone, during the Advanced Tactics Aircrew Course (ATAC) near RAAF Richmond, Australia, March 13, 2017. The ATAC was hosted by the Advanced Airlift Tactics Training Center, based out of St. Joseph Mo., which has the mission of increasing the war-fighting effectiveness and survivability of mobility forces. This is the first time the AATTC has taught courses overseas. (U.S. Air National Guard photos by Staff Sgt. Patrick Evenson)

PADANG, Indonesia (Aug. 22, 2016) Steelworker 3rd Class Roy Hughes, from Boston, plays with local children at the construction site of the Padang Sarai village community center. Pacific Partnership 2016 and Tentara Nasional Indonesia service members are working together to build a community center that will also serve as a shelter in a disaster for the village of Padang Sarai. This is the fifth time Pacific Partnership has visited Indonesia. Partner nations are working side-by-side with local organizations during disaster response training, civil engineering projects, Women, Peace, and Security seminars, medical subject matter expert exchanges and a live field training exercise aimed at improving the capacity of local government, civilian agencies and partner militaries to collectively respond in crisis. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Marine Corporal Amanda Mireles/Released)

McEntire Joint National Guard Base, home of the South Carolina Air National Guard’s 169th Fighter Wing, co-hosts nighttime arming and refueling training during Exercise Agile Lion, Jan. 14, 2020. Multi-functional Airmen and F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jets from the 4th Fighter Wing at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, N.C., execute integrated combat turns during the exercise. This training simulates mobile command and control which enables joint interoperability. A C-130J Hercules military transport aircraft from the 19th Airlift Wing, Little Rock Air Force Base, Ark., assists in the prepositioning of support personnel, equipment and fuel needed to support the fleet of F-15s participating in the exercise. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Master Sgt. Edward Snyder, 169th Fighter Wing Public Affairs)

McEntire Joint National Guard Base, home of the South Carolina Air National Guard’s 169th Fighter Wing, co-hosts nighttime arming and refueling training during Exercise Agile Lion, Jan. 14, 2020. Multi-functional Airmen and F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jets from the 4th Fighter Wing at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, N.C., execute integrated combat turns during the exercise. This training simulates mobile command and control which enables joint interoperability. A C-130J Hercules military transport aircraft from the 19th Airlift Wing, Little Rock Air Force Base, Ark., assists in the prepositioning of support personnel, equipment and fuel needed to support the fleet of F-15s participating in the exercise. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Master Sgt. Edward Snyder, 169th Fighter Wing Public Affairs)

KUANTAN NAVAL BASE, Malaysia (Aug. 13, 2016) Rear Adm. John W. Korka, commander, Naval Facilities Engineering Command Pacific, gives remarks during the Pacific Partnership 2016 closing ceremony in Malaysia. The ceremony highlighted the importance of partnership in the region and the work completed, knowledge exchanged and relationships grown during the mission stop. This was Pacific Partnership's first visit to Malaysia. During the mission stop, partner nations worked side-by-side with local military and civilian organizations in a search and rescue exercise, civil engineering projects, community relation events and subject matter expert exchanges. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Hank Gettys/Released)

Local Afghan contractors work at the construction site of the new Cadastre building in Kandahar, Jan. 23. Afghan contractors demolished the old building, cleaned the site, and laid the foundation for the new building. The Kandahar Provincial Reconstruction Team works to mentor the Afghan provincial government with its increasing workload involving similar projects. (U.S. Army Photo by Staff Sgt. Jeff Neff/Released)

U.S. Navy F/A-18 Super Hornets assigned Strike Fighter Squadrons 27 and 102 (VFA-27, VFA-102), Naval Air Facility Atsugi, Japan, prepare to launch during a training exercise Feb. 16, 2017, at Kadena Air Base, Japan. VFA-27 and VFA-102 flew with Kadena’s 44th Fighter Squadron in the first joint aerial combat exercise between USN and U.S. Air Force fighter squadrons stationed in Japan. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Peter Reft/Released)

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EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. (May 1, 2010) The Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) 41st annual Memorial Service is held at the Kauffman EOD Training Complex to honor the men and women who lost their lives on active duty as a result of an EOD mission since the declaration of World War II. This year, 16 names were added to the memorial, bringing the total to 254 names. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Jennifer A. Villalovos/Released)

McEntire Joint National Guard Base, home of the South Carolina Air National Guard’s 169th Fighter Wing, co-hosts nighttime arming and refueling training during Exercise Agile Lion, Jan. 14, 2020. Multi-functional Airmen and F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jets from the 4th Fighter Wing at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, N.C., execute integrated combat turns during the exercise. This training simulates mobile command and control which enables joint interoperability. A C-130J Hercules military transport aircraft from the 19th Airlift Wing, Little Rock Air Force Base, Ark., assists in the prepositioning of support personnel, equipment and fuel needed to support the fleet of F-15s participating in the exercise. (U.S. Air Force photo by Capt. Stephen Hudson, 169th Fighter Wing Public Affairs)

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (Sept. 19, 2016) Service members aboard hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) render honors to the USS Arizona Memorial as Mercy arrives at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam. Pacific Partnership 2016 deployed in May, visiting six ports, during which civilian and military personnel from 14 partner nations worked together, exchanging knowledge and best practices in order to improve collective disaster response preparedness in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region. Upon departure from Hawaii, Mercy, with the embarked Pacific Partnership 2016 team, will sail to her homeport of San Diego. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Lindsey E. Skelton/Released)

Tech. Sgt. John F. Hurley Jr., left, 177th Fighter Wing Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD), New Jersey Air National Guard, along with Master Sgt. Dustin Heines, center, and Senior Airman Pean Saliasi, both with 514th Air Mobility Wing EOD, Air Force Reserve, Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., examine a section of a BDU-50, 500-pound practice bomb that was cut lengthwise after being wrapped with explosive cutting tape (ECT) during a joint render safe operation with EOD Airmen from the 177th and the 514th at Detachment 1, Warren Grove Gunnery Range, N.J., May 1, 2015. The ECT is used to cut through empty and concrete ordnance. Beginning on April 28, 2015, the EOD Airmen retrieved all the ordnance that was dropped at the Range during the past year, and on May 1, 2015, rendered safe – a controlled detonation operation – 30 inert BDU-50, 500-pound practice bombs and two cartridges from BDU-33, 25 pound practice bombs, for later reclamation. Warren Grove Gunnery Range, which is operated by the 177th Fighter Wing, provides a training environment for all military and ground combat forces. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Mark C. Olsen/Released)

Staff Sgt. Thomas Bland of the Headqaurters and Headquarters Company of the 27th Infantry Brigade Combat Team works in the signal section of a Joint Operations Center in Buffalo, New York, May 27. Bland is part of the headquarters element overseeing members of the Army and Air National Guard, New York State Guard, and New York Naval Militia serving as part of the COVID-19 response mission in the western end of New York State. (Army National Guard Photo by Capt. Avery Schneider)

New York City, NY- Service members from the New York Guard and New York National Guard reported to the Javits Convention Center in New York City at 0630 in the morning on November 25, 2019. The service members unboxed pallets of turkeys and other foods, packed them into 3100 bags, and then loaded the bags onto 18 NYS Department of Transportation vehicles which were then used to distribute the Turkey bags across the NYC/Long Island and Westchester areas.

The New York Military Force members were participating in the annual program sponsored by New York State Governor Andrew M. Cuomo’s initiative to distribute the ingredients for a Thanksgiving meal to needy families. Joint Operation “Turkey Drop” included forty Service members of the New York Guard, State Volunteer Defense Force, and 10 soldiers from the New York National Guard Joint Task Force Empire Shield, assigned to Bravo Company, FT Hamilton, NY. The service members were thanked for their efforts by Brigadier General John Andonie, New York Army National Director, Chief of Staff, who observed the joint mission efforts. Division of Military and Naval Affairs Photos by New York Guard Captain Mark Getman/Released.

McEntire Joint National Guard Base, home of the South Carolina Air National Guard’s 169th Fighter Wing, co-hosts nighttime arming and refueling training during Exercise Agile Lion, Jan. 14, 2020. Multi-functional Airmen and F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jets from the 4th Fighter Wing at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, N.C., execute integrated combat turns during the exercise. This training simulates mobile command and control which enables joint interoperability. (U.S. Air Force photo by Capt. Stephen Hudson, 169th Fighter Wing Public Affairs)

McEntire Joint National Guard Base, home of the South Carolina Air National Guard’s 169th Fighter Wing, co-hosts nighttime arming and refueling training during Exercise Agile Lion, Jan. 14, 2020. Multi-functional Airmen and F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jets from the 4th Fighter Wing at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, N.C., execute integrated combat turns during the exercise. This training simulates mobile command and control which enables joint interoperability. A C-130J Hercules military transport aircraft from the 19th Airlift Wing, Little Rock Air Force Base, Ark., assists in the prepositioning of support personnel, equipment and fuel needed to support the fleet of F-15s participating in the exercise. (U.S. Air Force photo by Capt. Stephen Hudson, 169th Fighter Wing Public Affairs)

Paratroopers fill the skies over Pope Army Airfield during a joint airborne operation with the 440th Airlift Wing, April 17, 2014. Sixty active and Army Reserve Soldiers from Fort Bragg, N.C. and 30 Air Force special tactics airmen from Pope participated in the event highlighting the joint capabilities of the men and women of who serve in the 440th and the airborne forces. (U.S. Army photo by Timothy L. Hale/Released)

A Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force soldier performs a search on U.S. Navy Master-at-Arms 3rd Class Patrick Southerland March 2, 2010, during a training exercise as part of exercise Guard and Protect at Commander Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Japan. The exercise marks the 6th annual cooperative training between the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force and U.S. Navy security forces. (DoD photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Mike R. Mulcare, U.S. Navy/Released)

1st Lt. Hemanth Nalamothu, platoon leader, 1st platoon, 84th Engineer Support Company, 6th Engineer Battalion (Airborne), 2nd Engineer Brigade, recovers a parachute from a Small Unit Support Vehicle after it was air dropped above the Arctic Circle as part of Arctic Pegasus May 1 near Deadhorse, Alaska. The goal of this Arctic mobility exercise is to enhance U.S. Army Alaska’s proficiency for conducting Arctic airborne operations, mobility and ground maneuvers in extreme cold-weather conditions. (Photo by Staff Sgt. Mylinda DuRousseau, 1/25 SBCT Public Affairs)

U.S. service members carry a local woman unable to walk into the gates of the clinic in Thiès, Senegal, July 11. The medical care provided by the U.S. is part of Exercise Western Accord 2012. U.S. service members, primarily Reservists from the Marines, Army, Navy, and Air Force are taking part in Western Accord -- a multi-lateral exercise with Senegalese and several Western African nations. The training exercise runs from June 26 – July 24 and involves Armed Forces of Senegal, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Gambia and France. (USMC photo by Lance Corporal Jessica DeRose)

McEntire Joint National Guard Base, home of the South Carolina Air National Guard’s 169th Fighter Wing, co-hosts nighttime arming and refueling training during Exercise Agile Lion, Jan. 14, 2020. Multi-functional Airmen and F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jets from the 4th Fighter Wing at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, N.C., execute integrated combat turns during the exercise. This training simulates mobile command and control which enables joint interoperability. (U.S. Air Force photo by Capt. Stephen Hudson, 169th Fighter Wing Public Affairs)

McEntire Joint National Guard Base, home of the South Carolina Air National Guard’s 169th Fighter Wing, co-hosts nighttime arming and refueling training during Exercise Agile Lion, Jan. 14, 2020. Multi-functional Airmen and F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jets from the 4th Fighter Wing at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, N.C., execute integrated combat turns during the exercise. This training simulates mobile command and control which enables joint interoperability. A C-130J Hercules military transport aircraft from the 19th Airlift Wing, Little Rock Air Force Base, Ark., assists in the prepositioning of support personnel, equipment and fuel needed to support the fleet of F-15s participating in the exercise. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Master Sgt. Edward Snyder, 169th Fighter Wing Public Affairs)

McEntire Joint National Guard Base, home of the South Carolina Air National Guard’s 169th Fighter Wing, co-hosts nighttime arming and refueling training during Exercise Agile Lion, Jan. 14, 2020. Multi-functional Airmen and F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jets from the 4th Fighter Wing at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, N.C., execute integrated combat turns during the exercise. This training simulates mobile command and control which enables joint interoperability. (U.S. Air Force photo by Capt. Stephen Hudson, 169th Fighter Wing Public Affairs)

Approximately 200 youth, ages 10-15 converge on Camp Ripley, Minnesota in August to attend the Annual Minnesota National Guard Youth Camp. The youth, dependents, nieces, nephews, brothers, sisters and grandchildren of Minnesota Guard members, spend seven days experiencing Camp Ripley and its surrounding environment during the one week camp session.

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McEntire Joint National Guard Base, home of the South Carolina Air National Guard’s 169th Fighter Wing, co-hosts nighttime arming and refueling training during Exercise Agile Lion, Jan. 14, 2020. Multi-functional Airmen and F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jets from the 4th Fighter Wing at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, N.C., execute integrated combat turns during the exercise. This training simulates mobile command and control which enables joint interoperability. A C-130J Hercules military transport aircraft from the 19th Airlift Wing, Little Rock Air Force Base, Ark., assists in the prepositioning of support personnel, equipment and fuel needed to support the fleet of F-15s participating in the exercise. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Master Sgt. Edward Snyder, 169th Fighter Wing Public Affairs)

McEntire Joint National Guard Base, home of the South Carolina Air National Guard’s 169th Fighter Wing, co-hosts nighttime arming and refueling training during Exercise Agile Lion, Jan. 14, 2020. Multi-functional Airmen and F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jets from the 4th Fighter Wing at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, N.C., execute integrated combat turns during the exercise. This training simulates mobile command and control which enables joint interoperability. (U.S. Air Force photo by Capt. Stephen Hudson, 169th Fighter Wing Public Affairs)

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A section of a BDU-50, 500-pound practice bomb is blown into the air after being wrapped lengthwise with explosive cutting tape (ECT) during a joint render safe operation with Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Airmen from the 177th Fighter Wing, New Jersey Air National Guard, and the 514th Air Mobility Wing, Air Force Reserve, Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., at Detachment 1, Warren Grove Gunnery Range, N.J., May 1, 2015. The ECT is used to cut through empty and concrete ordnance. Beginning on April 28, 2015, the EOD Airmen retrieved all the ordnance that was dropped at the Range during the past year, and on May 1, 2015, rendered safe – a controlled detonation operation – 30 inert BDU-50, 500-pound practice bombs and two cartridges from BDU-33, 25 pound practice bombs, for later reclamation. Warren Grove Gunnery Range, which is operated by the 177th Fighter Wing, provides a training environment for all military and ground combat forces. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Mark C. Olsen/Released)

McEntire Joint National Guard Base, home of the South Carolina Air National Guard’s 169th Fighter Wing, co-hosts nighttime arming and refueling training during Exercise Agile Lion, Jan. 14, 2020. Multi-functional Airmen and F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jets from the 4th Fighter Wing at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, N.C., execute integrated combat turns during the exercise. This training simulates mobile command and control which enables joint interoperability. A C-130J Hercules military transport aircraft from the 19th Airlift Wing, Little Rock Air Force Base, Ark., assists in the prepositioning of support personnel, equipment and fuel needed to support the fleet of F-15s participating in the exercise. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Master Sgt. Edward Snyder, 169th Fighter Wing Public Affairs)

Master Sgt. Daniel Simon, a jumpmaster with the U.S. Army Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command (Airborne), inspects a paratrooper's static line during a joint airborne operation with the 440th Airlift Wing from Pope Army Airfield, April 17, 2014. Sixty active and Army Reserve Soldiers from Fort Bragg, N.C. and 30 Air Force special tactics airmen from Pope participated in the event highlighting the joint capabilities of the men and women of who serve in the 440th and the airborne forces. (U.S. Army photo by Timothy L. Hale/Released)

LEGAZPI, Philippines (June 29, 2016) Capt. Lynelle Boamah, director of medical services aboard hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19), gives a presentation during a pediatric subject matter expert exchange at Bicol Regional Training & Teaching Hospital as part of Pacific Partnership 2016. Pacific Partnership is visiting the Philippines for the seventh time since its first mission in 2006. Partner nations will work side-by-side with local military and non-government organizations to conduct cooperative health engagements, community relations events and subject matter expert exchanges to better prepare for natural disaster or crisis. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Lindsey E. Skelton/Released)

McEntire Joint National Guard Base, home of the South Carolina Air National Guard’s 169th Fighter Wing, co-hosts nighttime arming and refueling training during Exercise Agile Lion, Jan. 14, 2020. Multi-functional Airmen and F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jets from the 4th Fighter Wing at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, N.C., execute integrated combat turns during the exercise. This training simulates mobile command and control which enables joint interoperability. A C-130J Hercules military transport aircraft from the 19th Airlift Wing, Little Rock Air Force Base, Ark., assists in the prepositioning of support personnel, equipment and fuel needed to support the fleet of F-15s participating in the exercise. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Master Sgt. Edward Snyder, 169th Fighter Wing Public Affairs)

McEntire Joint National Guard Base, home of the South Carolina Air National Guard’s 169th Fighter Wing, co-hosts nighttime arming and refueling training during Exercise Agile Lion, Jan. 14, 2020. Multi-functional Airmen and F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jets from the 4th Fighter Wing at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, N.C., execute integrated combat turns during the exercise. This training simulates mobile command and control which enables joint interoperability. A C-130J Hercules military transport aircraft from the 19th Airlift Wing, Little Rock Air Force Base, Ark., assists in the prepositioning of support personnel, equipment and fuel needed to support the fleet of F-15s participating in the exercise. (U.S. Air Force photo by Capt. Stephen Hudson, 169th Fighter Wing Public Affairs)

Master Sgt. Daniel Simon, a jumpmaster with the U.S. Army Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command (Airborne), inspects a paratrooper during a joint airborne operation with the 440th Airlift Wing from Pope Army Airfield, April 17, 2014. Sixty active and Army Reserve Soldiers from Fort Bragg, N.C. and 30 Air Force special tactics airmen from Pope participated in the event highlighting the joint capabilities of the men and women of who serve in the 440th and the airborne forces. (U.S. Army photo by Timothy L. Hale/Released)

LEGAZPI, Philippines (June 29, 2016) Sailors from hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) view a neonatal intensive care unit during a pediatric subject matter exchange tour of Bicol Regional Training & Teaching Hospital as part of Pacific Partnership 2016. Pacific Partnership is visiting the Philippines for the seventh time since its first mission in 2006. Partner nations will work side-by-side with local military and non-government organizations to conduct cooperative health engagements, community relations events and subject matter expert exchanges to better prepare for natural disaster or crisis. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Lindsey E. Skelton/Released)

McEntire Joint National Guard Base, home of the South Carolina Air National Guard’s 169th Fighter Wing, co-hosts nighttime arming and refueling training during Exercise Agile Lion, Jan. 14, 2020. Multi-functional Airmen and F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jets from the 4th Fighter Wing at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, N.C., execute integrated combat turns during the exercise. This training simulates mobile command and control which enables joint interoperability. A C-130J Hercules military transport aircraft from the 19th Airlift Wing, Little Rock Air Force Base, Ark., assists in the prepositioning of support personnel, equipment and fuel needed to support the fleet of F-15s participating in the exercise. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Master Sgt. Edward Snyder, 169th Fighter Wing Public Affairs)

PADANG, Indonesia (Aug. 27, 2016) Col. Pom Widhy Sutedjo, of the Tentara Nasional Indonesian Army (left), Capt. Tom Williams, Pacific Partnership 2016 mission commander (center), and Col. Pub I Putu Gede Suartika, of the Tentara Nasional Indonesia Army, cut a ribbon to commemorate the completion of a new evacuation road in Padang. The evacuation road is a new concrete road built by TNI engineers and U.S. Navy Seabees to provide members of the community a safe route to evacuate if a disaster were to strike. This is the fifth time Pacific Partnership has visited Indonesia. Partner nations are working side-by-side with local organizations during disaster response training, civil engineering projects, Women, Peace, and Security seminars, medical subject matter expert exchanges and a live field training exercise aimed at improving the capacity of local government, civilian agencies and partner militaries to collectively respond in crisis. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class William Cousins/Released)

Sgt. 1st Class Daniel Stroupe, a jumpmaster with the U.S. Army Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command (Airborne), gives final instructions before a joint airborne operation with the 440th Airlift Wing from Pope Army Airfield, April 17, 2014. Sixty active and Army Reserve Soldiers from Fort Bragg, N.C. and 30 Air Force special tactics airmen from Pope participated in the event highlighting the joint capabilities of the men and women of who serve in the 440th and the airborne forces. (U.S. Army photo by Timothy L. Hale/Released)

DILI, Timor-Leste (June 9, 2016) Lt. Mark Debano, an optometrist attached to hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19), checks a Timorese patient's eyes at Guido Valadares National Hospital. Pacific Partnership 2016 marks the sixth time the mission has visited Timor-Leste since its first visit in 2006. Medical, engineering and various other personnel embarked aboard Mercy will work side-by-side with partner nation counterparts, exchanging ideas, building best practices and relationships to ensure preparedness should disaster strike. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Hank Gettys/Released)

PADANG, Indonesia (Aug. 28, 2016) Firefighters from the Padang Fire Department man firefighting hoses during a rehearsal for a Pacific Partnership 2016 mass casualty drill at Imam Bonjol soccer field. The Pacific Partnership search and rescue field training exercise spanned across three locations in Padang and included a water rescue, a field hospital patient for patient triage and transport, and a mass casualty at a local soccer field. The day's events were facilitated by Tentara Nasional Indonesia, local first responders and the Pacific Partnership humanitarian assistance and disaster relief team. This is the fifth time Pacific Partnership has visited Indonesia. Partner nations are working side-by-side with local organizations during disaster response training, civil engineering projects, Women, Peace, and Security seminars, medical subject matter expert exchanges and a live field training exercise aimed at improving the capacity of local government, civilian agencies and partner militaries to collectively respond in crisis. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Hank Gettys/Released)

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Brian Hinkle, left, with Echo Company, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 1, jokes with an Afghan National Army (ANA) soldier during Operation Godfather in Durzay, Afghanistan, Jan. 15, 2011. The Marines partnered with the ANA to successfully clear the last remaining Taliban stronghold in the southern area of the Garmsir district. The Marines were deployed to the Helmand province in support of the International Security Assistance Force. (DoD photo by Sgt. Christopher R. Rye, U.S. Marine Corps/Released)

Master Sgt. Dustin Heines, left, 514th Air Mobility Wing Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD), Air Force Reserve, Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., and Staff Sgt. Joe Coates, 177th Fighter Wing EOD, New Jersey Air National Guard, wrap explosive cutting tape lengthwise around an inert BDU-50, 500-pound practice bomb during a joint render safe operation with EOD Airmen from the 177th and the 514th, at Detachment 1, Warren Grove Gunnery Range, N.J., May 1, 2015. The ECT is used to cut through empty and concrete ordnance. Beginning on April 28, 2015, the EOD Airmen retrieved all the ordnance that was dropped at the Range during the past year, and on May 1, 2015, rendered safe – a controlled detonation operation – 30 inert BDU-50, 500-pound practice bombs and two cartridges from BDU-33, 25 pound practice bombs, for later reclamation. Warren Grove Gunnery Range, which is operated by the 177th Fighter Wing, provides a training environment for all military and ground combat forces. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Mark C. Olsen/Released)

DILI, Timor Leste (June 15, 2016) Sailors assigned to USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) play soccer with Timorese students from the National University of East Timor during a Pacific Partnership 2016 community relations event. During the event, the U.S. Pacific Fleet Band played music while Sailors and Timorese students played soccer and various other sports. Pacific Partnership 2016 marks the sixth time the mission has visited Timor Leste since its first visit in 2006. Medical, engineering and various other personnel embarked aboard Mercy are working side-by-side with partner nation counterparts, exchanging ideas, building best practices and relationships to ensure preparedness should disaster strike. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Lindsey E. Skelton/Released)

PADANG, Indonesia (Aug. 19, 2016) Military Sealift Command personnel lower the anchor aboard hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) off the coast of Padang, beginning Pacific Partnership 2016's fifth and final mission stop. This is the fifth time Pacific Partnership has visited Indonesia. Partner nations will work side-by-side with local organizations during disaster response training, civil engineering projects, Women, Peace, and Security seminars, medical subject matter expert exchanges and a live field training exercise aimed at improving the capacity of local government, civilian agencies and partner militaries to collectively respond in crisis. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class William Cousins/Released)