PACIFIC OCEAN (June 7, 2016) Sailors assigned to the Blackjacks of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 21 conduct maintenance on an MH-60S helicopter on the flight deck of hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) in preparation for the first mission stop in Timor Leste. The Sailors are also known as maintainers, and are responsible for the upkeep of the aircraft before and after flight. Deployed in support of Pacific Partnership 2016, Mercy is scheduled to visit Timor Leste, the Republic of the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia. 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)

A U.S. Air Force 44th Fighter Squadron F-15 Eagle and U.S. Navy Strike Fighter Squadron 27 and 102 (VFA-27, VFA-102) F/A-18 Super Hornets, assigned to Naval Air Facility Atsugi, Japan, fly in formation during a training sortie Feb. 16, 2017, over the Pacific Ocean. The joint training bolstered communications and operations capability between the two services, which both serve to enhance peace and security for assets and allies in Japan and throughout the Indo-Asia Pacific Theater. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Peter Reft/Released)

NAVAL STATION JULHASAN ARASAIN, Philippines (July 5, 2016) U.S. Navy Lt. Kelly Nobles, a biochemist and native of Raleigh, North Carolina, embarked aboard hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19), gives a presentation during a preventative medicine subject matter expert exchange during Pacific Partnership 2016. During the exchange, U.S. and Filipino personnel shared their preventative medicine experience and expertise to gain knowledge and perspective in the field. 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 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 Hank Gettys/Released)

DILI, Timor-Leste (June 8, 2016) Rear Adm. Charles Williams, commander of Task Force 73, salutes during the Pacific Partnership 2016 opening ceremony at the Timor-Leste Ministry of Defense. Pacific Partnership has a longstanding history with Timor-Leste, having first visited in 2006, and four subsequent times since. 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 includes a water rescue, a field hospital for patient triage and transport, and a mass casualty simulation. 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. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Brittney Vella/Released)

KUANTAN, Malaysia (Aug. 3, 2016) Lt. Col. Siti Nordiana binti Dollah, Malaysian Army talks about the importance of treating mental health at the Multinational Maritime Workshop portion of the Asia Pacific Military Health Exchange. The workshop was held in conjunction with aviation and land force workshops, each giving multinational subject matter experts a chance to share knowledge in their fields. This is the first time Mercy and Pacific Partnership have visited Malaysia. During the mission stop partner nations work 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 1st Class Elizabeth Merriam/Released)

LEGAZPI, Philippines (June 29, 2016) Capt. Lynelle Boamah, director of medical services aboard hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19), examines a patient 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)

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. 29, 2016) Padang Cement Rescue Team members move a patient from an Indonesian Bell 412 helicopter during a Pacific Partnership 2016 search and rescue field training exercise. Participants received and treated patients at the Padang Cement Factory field hospital, assembled for the earthquake mass casualty scenario. The exercise spanned across three locations in Padang and included a water rescue, a field hospital 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 Lindsey E. Skelton/Released)

JAVA SEA (Sept. 2, 2016) Lt. Jeremy Wano (left), from Latrobe, Pennsylvania, and Lt. Gabrielle Jung, from Aurora, Colorado, the youngest and oldest dental officers attached to USNS Mercy (T-AH 19), cut a cake during the Navy Dental Corps birthday celebration on the mess decks. Deployed in support of Pacific Partnership 2016, Mercy is sailing to her homeport of San Diego. (U.S. Navy Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Lindsey E. Skelton/Released)

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Anthony Salvo, a loadmaster with Marine Aerial Refuel and Transport Squadron 352, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing (Forward), prepares a pallet of supplies for an aerial drop from a KC-130J Hercules aircraft before taking off from Camp Leatherneck, Afghanistan, June 25, 2010. The drop is intended to resupply Afghan National Army soldiers. (DoD photo by Sgt. Jeffrey D. Anderson, U.S. Marine Corps/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)

U.S. Air Force Senior Master Sgt. Todd Butcher, with the New Jersey Air National Guard’s 177th Fighter Wing, stands for a portrait at the Federal Medical Station inside the Atlantic City Convention Center, Atlantic City, N.J., April 24, 2020. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Matt Hecht)

A U.S. Air Force 44th Fighter Squadron F-15 Eagle and U.S. Navy Strike Fighter Squadron 27 and 102 (VFA-27, VFA-102) F/A-18 Super Hornets, assigned to Naval Air Facility Atsugi, Japan, fly in formation during a training sortie Feb. 16, 2017, over the Pacific Ocean. The joint training enhanced U.S. forces interoperability, which serves to bolster both services’ capability to defend assets and allies in Japan and throughout the Indo-Asia Pacific Theater. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Peter Reft/Released)

Soldiers with the Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 50th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, New Jersey Army National Guard, load personal gear onto a C-17 Globemaster III from the New York Air National Guard's 105th Airlift Wing during a deployment exercise at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., May 11, 2015. The exercise, part of the unit’s annual training, was to test the transportation capabilities of the 50th IBCT. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Mark C. Olsen/Released)

Chief Petty Officer Mark Fisher places an Assessment Sticker on a vessel displaced by Hurricane Irma in the area of Dinner Key, near Miami, Oct. 4, 2017. Boaters are urged to exercise extreme caution in ports and waterways affected by Hurricane Irma, as navigational hazards have been created by the storm. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Chief Petty Officer Nick Ameen.

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)

Army Reserve Master Sgt. Chris Hecker, operations noncommissioned officer-in-charge, U.S. Army Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command (Airborne) waits to board a C-130H Hercules transport plane during a joint airborne operations exercise with the U.S. Air Force Reserve 440th Airlift Wing from Pope Army Airfield, April 17, 2014. Sixty active and Reserve Soldiers from Fort Bragg, N.C. and 30 Air Force special tactics airmen from Pope participated to highlight the joint capabilites of the two services.

DILI, Timor Leste (June 13, 2016) Chief Musician Ian Charleton, of the U.S. Pacific Fleet Band embarked aboard hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) and native of College Station, Texas, plays saxophone during a community relations event as part of Pacific Partnership 2016. This year 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 Hank Gettys/Released)

Col. Timothy McGuire, of Alamo, Calif., commander of the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, Multi-National Division-Baghdad, recites the oath of reenlistment to Spc. John MacMurray at halftime of the combined forces soccer match at Shaab Stadium May 23 in the Rusafa district of eastern Baghdad. MacMurray, of Minerva, Ohio, reenlisted for four more years of military service. MacMurray serves as a intelligence specialist for Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 3rd BCT, 82nd Abn. Div.

(U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. James Selesnick)

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 includes a water rescue, a field hospital for patient triage and transport, and a mass casualty simulation. 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. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Brittney Vella/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)

LEGAZPI, Philippines (July 6, 2016) Members of the U.S. Pacific Fleet Band sing with Sofia Capili, a Legazpi native, during a Pacific Partnership 2016 community relation event 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)

U.S. Army Reserve paratroopers from the U.S. Army Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command (Airborne) make final preparations for 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)

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NORFOLK (Jan. 4, 2011) Sailors aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Bainbridge (DDG 96) man the rails prior to departing Naval Station Norfolk for a scheduled deployment. Bainbridge is deploying to the Mediterranean Sea to conduct joint operations as part of NATO operations. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Tamekia Perdue/Released)

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.

(U.S. Army National Guard photo by Sgt. John Angelo/Released)

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U.S. Navy Boatswain's Mate 2nd Class Kristal Scudamore, left, assigned to the amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6), exchanges ship ball caps with Australian sailors assigned the landing ship heavy HMAS Tobruk (L 50), aboard Bonhomme Richard at sea in the Pacific Ocean June 26, 2008, during the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise. Sailors from Bonhomme Richard and Tobruk crossed decks to experience life aboard each vessel. RIMPAC, the world's largest multinational exercise, is scheduled biennially by the U.S. Pacific Fleet in the Hawaiian operating area. RIMPAC 2008 includes participants Australia, Canada, Chile, Japan, the Netherlands, Peru, the Republic of Korea, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Drew Williams

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States Coast Guard Medium Endurance-class cutter USCGC Seneca (WMEC-906)

gets underway from the Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba after taking

on fuel and stores. The Seneca is deployed to the U.S. 4th Fleet

Caribbean area conducting counter-narco-terrorism and migrant

operations. The Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba is a logistical hub

for U.S. Naval, U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Army and Allied vessels operating

in the Caribbean theater. (U.S. Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication

Specialist Bill Mesta/Released)

PADANG, Indonesia (Aug. 29, 2016) Lt. Cmdr. Frank Margaron, from Naperville, Illinois, attached to USNS Mercy (T-AH 19), explains how to apply a tourniquet to local first responders during a Pacific Partnership 2016 search and rescue field training exercise. Participants received and treated patients at the Padang Cement Factory field hospital, assembled for the earthquake mass casualty scenario. The Pacific Partnership search and rescue field training exercise spanned across three locations in Padang and included a water rescue, a field hospital 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 Lindsey E. Skelton/Released)

DILI, Timor Leste (June 13, 2016) Personnelman Seaman Apprentice Alejandro Gonzalez, a native of La Puente, California and a member of a Pacific Partnership 2016 soccer team dribbles down the field during a match with the Timor Leste Defense Force soccer team during a community relations event. 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 USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) 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 Hank Gettys/Released)

Night vision photo of a U.S. Marine assigned to the 273rd Marine Wing Support Squadron, Air Operations Company, Fuels Platoon at Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, S.C., guides an AH-64 Apache during a Forward Air Refueling Point operation with the South Carolina National Guard at McEntire Joint National Guard Base, S.C. on May 14. Elements of the South Carolina Air and Army National Guard and the U.S. Marines conduct joint operations which are crucial to the ongoing success of operational readiness and deployments around the world. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Airman 1st Class Ashleigh S. Pavelek/Released)

DA NANG, Vietnam (July 19, 2016) A Vietnamese girl looks into the camera while Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Gentry Skahen, a native of Las Vegas and embarked aboard hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19), paints another child's face during a Pacific Partnership 2016 English conversation community relation event. Mercy is joined by JS Shimokita (LST-4002) and Vietnam People's Navy ship, Khánh Hóa for Pacific Partnership. Partner nations are working side-by-side with local 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 Hank Gettys/Released)

Thiès, Senegal - Colonel Anthony Fernandez III, the Task Force commander for WA-12 and Brigadier General Papa Samba Kamara, the Chief of Staff for the Army Senegalese Forces, salute the Senegalese flag during their national anthem as part of the closing ceremony for Exercise Western Accord 2012 here, July 19. U.S. service members, primarily Reservists from the Marines, Army, Navy, and Air Force are took part in WA-12 -- 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)

PADANG, Indonesia (Aug. 29, 2016) The Padang Cement Rescue Team brings burn victims to a field hospital during a Pacific Partnership 2016 search and rescue field training exercise. Participants received and treated patients at the Padang Cement Factory field hospital, assembled for the earthquake mass casualty scenario.The Pacific Partnership search and rescue field training exercise spanned across three locations in Padang and included a water rescue, a field hospital 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 Lindsey E. Skelton/Released)

Terry Tanner of the Environmental Protection Agency and his Coast Guard counterparts finish an assessment of a vessel in Garrison Bight, a harbor on Key West, Florida, Oct. 2, 2017. Assessed vessels are prioritized for removal based on their threat to the environment and their hazard to navigation. U.S. Coast Guard video by Petty Officer 2nd Class David Weydert.

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)

PADANG, Indonesia (Aug. 22, 2016) The Honorable Brian McFeeters, chargé d'affaires, Indonesia and Maj. Gen. Ben Yura Rimba, surgeon general, Tentara Nasional Indonesia review the troops at the Pacific Partnership 2016 opening ceremony. 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. (University of California-San Diego Predental Society photo by Ted Wendel/Released)

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.

(U.S. Army National Guard photo by Sgt. John Angelo/Released)

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DILI, Timor Leste (June 20, 2016) A group of students at Aimutin School perform a traditional dance during a ribbon cutting ceremony marking the completion of the renovation of the school for Pacific Partnership 2016. Timorese Soldiers, U.S. Navy Seabees, U.S. Marines and Australian engineers have been working together to renovate the school's courtyard and facade. This year marks the sixth time the mission 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 Hank Gettys/Released)

Staff Sgt. Joe Coates, 177th Fighter Wing Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD), New Jersey Air National Guard, checks to make sure all the inert BDU-50, 500-pound practice bombs were rendered safe – a controlled detonation operation – during a joint operation with EOD Airmen from the 177th 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. 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 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)

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.

DILI, Timor Leste (June 20, 2016) A group of students at Aimutin School perform a traditional dance during a ribbon cutting ceremony marking the completion of the renovation of the school for Pacific Partnership 2016. Timorese Soldiers, U.S. Navy Seabees, U.S. Marines and Australian engineers have been working together to renovate the school's courtyard and facade. This year marks the sixth time the mission 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 Hank Gettys/Released)

LEGAZPI, Philippines (July 6, 2016) The U.S. Pacific Fleet Band performs at a Pacific Partnership 2016 community relation event 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)

PADANG, Indonesia (Aug. 28, 2016) Indonesian first responders and Tentara Nasional Indonesia medical personnel lift a simulated casualty onto a stretcher during a Pacific Partnership 2016 mass casualty drill rehearsal 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 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)

An interpreter, right, translates for U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Roberto Mendez, left, an instructor at Joint Security Academy Southwest, as he explains baton techniques to Afghan students of the academy at Camp Leatherneck, Afghanistan, June 28, 2010. The students are part of Class 10-7 and will become Afghan uniformed policemen following the nine-week training program. (DoD photo by Cpl. Lindsay L. Sayres, U.S. Marine Corps/Released)

C-130H Hercules transports with the 440th Airlift Wing take off from Pope Army Airfield, April 17, 2014 during 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)

Amid the fractured urban landscape of post-war Zagreb in early 1996, this image captures a rugged and improvised tactical satellite communications station operated by the U.S. Army’s 7th Signal Brigade. Perched in front of a battle-scarred apartment block, the makeshift wooden shelter—draped in camouflage netting for concealment and protection—supports two large satellite dishes critical to establishing secure voice and data communication for U.S. and NATO forces across the Balkans during Operation Joint Endeavor.

Constructed from basic plywood and reinforced with scavenged materials, the shelter’s utilitarian form belies its strategic importance. These SATCOM systems enabled real-time battlefield coordination, long-distance command relay, and operational integration between multinational peacekeeping units deployed as part of IFOR (Implementation Force) following the signing of the Dayton Accords.

The 7th Signal Brigade, based in Germany and deployed throughout the region, played a vital role in restoring and maintaining digital links across a theater where civilian infrastructure was either destroyed or unreliable. This specific node may have served the U.S. Army’s forward operations center, acting as a hub for encrypted data, satellite phones, and logistic coordination channels, helping keep soldiers connected and missions on course.

The surrounding building shows visible war damage—charred windows, broken balconies, and general disrepair—contextualizing the military’s communications setup not in an isolated outpost but within a living, recovering urban environment. It’s a sobering portrait of military presence, improvisational engineering, and the effort to rebuild and maintain peace in a region recently torn apart by ethnic conflict.

KUANTAN, Malaysia (Aug. 10, 2016) Royal Australian Air Force Squadron Leader Amanda Norris, from Ipswich, Queensland, assigned to hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19), addresses an audience of International Islamic University of Malaysia nursing students during a Pacific Partnership 2016 subject matter expert exchange on women and children. The exchange included discussions about Women, Peace and Security, community health assessments and nursing. WPS highlights the importance of womenâs roles during a natural disaster or crisis and emphasizes the need for women to be part of the decision-making process during an emergency, along with the rights women and children have when left vulnerable from these disasters.This is the first time Mercy and Pacific Partnership have visited Malaysia. During the mission stop partner nations are working 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)

Senior Airman Pean Saliasi, right, yells fire in the hole while Master Sgt. Dustin Heines, both with 514th Air Mobility Wing Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD), Air Force Reserve, Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., holds a remote control detonator during a joint render safe operation with EOD Airmen from the 177th Fighter Wing, New Jersey Air National Guard and the 514th at Detachment 1, Warren Grove Gunnery Range, N.J., May 1, 2015. 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)