Staff Sgt. James Soroka, left, and Sgt. Brandon Dukes, both medics assigned to the 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade practice endotracheal intubation, March 3, 2016. Both Soldiers are attending paramedic training at Fayetteville Technical Community College to obtain the paramedic certification they need to remain flight medics. (U.S. Army photo by Eve Meinhardt/WAMC PAO)

Jeremiah Hit, a den leader in Pack 713, holds up the Cub Scout Sign to get the attention of his Scouts in order to explain the importance of cleaning up their neighborhoods and local environment and why they should always pick up after themselves. The Scouts picked up trash in the Linden Oaks housing community, Aug. 31.

The 18th Field Artillery Brigade Commander, Col. John L. Rafferty Jr. (center), talks to brigade leaders on Jan. 19 about the 1863 Battle of Chancellorsville at Hazel Grove, the elevated location that gave the Confederate Army a tactical advantage during the battle.

Lt. Gen. Joseph Anderson, commander Fort Bragg and XVIII Airborne Corps, center, completes a putt, alongside, from left to right, Sgt. Griffin Wilde, 1st Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, Lt. Col. Terry Nihart, XVIII Airborne Corps, and Michael Anderson, the commander’s son, during the CG’s Golf Scramble, April 2, at Stryker Golf Course. The scramble promotes camaraderie and allows service members and their Families, retirees, and community leaders to interact with Fort Bragg leadership.

Rebecca, right, Daniel, middle, Micah, 13, left and Paul Johnson, 11 don their costumes and have a good time during the Renaissance Faire at Smith Lake Saturday.

More than 2,000 runners from Fort Bragg and surrounding communities take to the streets for annual 10-mile race, Friday.

Jasmine Williams, left, reaches third base just before Nicole Schmidt gets the ball. Williams keep Diva’s scoring opportunity alive in the playoffs at Pope Softball Field.

Dave Beishline flies one of his last flights before retirement Dec. 10, 2014, as part of Operation Toy Drop.

Registered nurses Cathryn Bryan, center, and Caitlin Bley deliver the placenta after delivering a baby from a patient simulator in the hallway at Womack Army Medical Center during a mass casualty exercise, June 8. WAMC staff practiced evacuating patient role players and mannequins from the various floors of the hospital as part of the exercise.

Melea Stoltenbergn an Air Force spouse, face-off against an opponent during the All-American Fencing Academy tournament on Nov.1. She finished in second place.

Staff Sgt. Christopher T. Gifford, a paratrooper assigned to 1st Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division takes notes before participating in a virtual mission inside a reconfigurable vehicle tactical trainer, May 5, at Fort Bragg. Gifford is one of more than 20 noncommissioned officers stationed at Fort Bragg enrolled in the Master Driver Trainer Qualification Course. The two-week course, taught by a mobile training team from the U.S. Army Transportation School at Fort Lee, Virginia, qualifies motor transport operators to plan, organize and develop a safe and effective driver’s training program within their units.

Airmen from the 440th Maintenance Group and 2nd Airlift Squadron here, participated in a Crash, Damaged or Disabled Aircraft Recovery exercise here, Jan. 21 to Jan. 22. CDDAR teams ensure a specialized airbag is properly placed under aircraft for lift during the recovery exercise.

Family members of the 1st Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, play a game of duck, duck, goose during the squadron’s Cav. Kid’s Day on Fort Bragg, N.C., Aug. 22. (82nd Airborne Division Photo by Sgt. Eliverto V. Larios)

The streets of Fort Bragg were jam packed with runners lined up on Reilly Road for the first ever Neon 5K Night run. Participants ran with glow stick items they recieved from MWR staff. Runners were treated to several vendors displaying their services or porducts under tents set up across from Hedricks Stadium. Kids had the opportunity to take photos with their favorite superhero or disney princess as Batman, Wolverine, Captain America, Queen Elsa and Snow White all showed up for the festivities before the run.

Soldiers of Headquarters Battery, 108th Air Defense Artillery Brigade, test their newly issued M-50 joint service general purpose

masks in the 82nd Airborne Division’s gas chamber at Fort

Bragg, in September.

Kortni Adams, shortstop, catches and pitches the ball to Jodie Swavely-Brown to force an out at second base.

The streets of Fort Bragg were jam packed with runners lined up on Reilly Road for the first ever Neon 5K Night run. Participants ran with glow stick items they recieved from MWR staff. Runners were treated to several vendors displaying their services or porducts under tents set up across from Hedricks Stadium. Kids had the opportunity to take photos with their favorite superhero or disney princess as Batman, Wolverine, Captain America, Queen Elsa and Snow White all showed up for the festivities before the run.

Retired Col. Dennis J. Cahill (left) joins retired Lt. Col. Dennis Kennedy and the 96th Civil Affairs Battalion Commander, Lt. Col. William H. Wilkins, at the Somalia Campaign streamer ceremony, June 12, 2015. Cahill and Kennedy were deployed as civil affairs direct support team leaders to Somalia during Operation RESTORE HOPE, in Dec. 1992 to May 1993.

Members of the Company C, 1st Battalion, 319th Airborne Field Artillery Regiment, conduct M777 howitzer emplacement drills on Monday as part of their training for special certification. They train once every six months for certification purposes.

Paratroopers with 82nd Airborne Division walk off of Sicily Drop Zone at Fort Bragg, N.C., following a static line jump during the Saturday Proficiency Jump Program (SPJP) on Feb. 20, 2016. The SPJP builds proficiency, experience, and confidence of individual Paratroopers, ensuring the XVIII Airborne Corps remains ready for contingency response missions. (US Army Photo by Sgt. Tierney P. Curry)(Released)

Lee Greenwood, singing “Proud to be an American” to the

crowd at the pre-race demonstrations at Charlotte Motor Speedway,

Sunday. The Speedway is the location of the Let Freedom

Race Coca Cola 600 with more than 3,000 Fort Bragg Soldiers

attending the event.

Staff Sgt. David Bazzle, a Paratrooper, assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, teaches a class in resilience techniques, during the inagural"Panther Resilience Rodeo" at Fort Bragg, N.C., Jan. 8, 2016. The event brought together life-wellness educators from around the installation, to train Soldiers in physical, emotional, spiritual, social and family strength. (U.S. Army Photo by Sgt. Anthony Hewitt/Released).

Sandra Johnson places a stone in memory of her

daughter, Staff Sgt. Donna Johnson, as part of Gold

Star Parents Day, Sunday. The tree, located in front of

Survivor Outreach Services, was dedicated to fallen

servicemembers in 2010. Johnson and other Gold Star

parents placed stones memorializing their lost loved

ones during the luncheon honoring their sacrifi ce.

A paratrooper assigned to the British 16 Air Assault Brigade conducts an assault on Freedom City as the culminating event for Combined Joint Operational Access Exercise 15-01 on Fort Bragg, N.C., April 18, 2015. More than 3,500 American and British paratroopers participated in CJOAX 15-01, a major milestone in the 82nd Airborne Division's interoperability program. The goal of the interoperability program is to ultimately create the capability to seamlessly integrate a U.K. brigade into the Division, allowing the two units to operate quickly and effectively in the event they were to deploy as a part of a coalition crisis response force. (82nd Airborne Division photo by Staff Sgt. Jason Hull/Released)

Soldiers, Family members and civilians participate in the monthly

Community 5K Run/Walk at Hedrick Stadium, Saturday. More than

800 members of the Fort Bragg community took part in the event

that promotes the Army Performance Triad which focuses on the key

actions — activity, nutrition and sleep.

Fort Bragg youth participate in Vacation Bible School, June 22 to 26, at Irwin Intermediate School. This year’s theme was Jungle Safari: Where kids explore the nature of God.

Soldiers jump from an aircraft during day two of the David E. Grange Jr. Best Ranger Competition at Fort Benning, Georgia. The competition tests the physical, mental, technical and

tactical skills of Rangers in events such as swimming, sling load recovery, weighted carry, orienteering and a foot march. Staff Sgt. Carlos Mercado and 2009 winner Master Sgt. Chad

Stackpole, representing the 82nd Airborne Division, came in second place in this year’s competition. For more photos, visit www.paraglideonline.net

Andrey Platonov fixes a mug of beer at Oktoberfest, Saturday, at McKellar's Lodge. Hosted by the German Army Liaison Office, XVIII Airborne Corps, Octoberfest helps to renew Fort Bragg's airborne partnership with German. (Photo by Tina Ray/Paraglide)

Master Sgt. Adam Angrisanio, a Paratrooper assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division, repels from a tower during the annual Best Ranger Competition at Fort Benning, Ga., April 8, 2017. (U.S. Army Photo by Spc. Ryan Mercado)

Yajaira Jimenez is a

fast and furious, highly

capable, ball of efficiency.

The energetic manager

for the AAFES South

Post Exchange Food

Court on Fort Bragg.

Pvt. Kwymire Felder, food service specialist, 122nd Aviation Support Battalion, 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade, lightly coats the bottom of a pan prior to placing salmon on for baking at Fort Bragg, N.C., March 19. Sgt. Earl Lendore, a fellow food service specialist, had just shown Felder how to properly coat the pan.

Military spouses and Soldiers from Fort Bragg participate in the Spartan workout ckass during the third annual Spouse Wellness Conference May 7 at Hercules Fitness Center. The workout was led by Spartan Race founder/CEO Joe DeSena.

Above: NASCAR driver Kasey Kahne takes part in

an artillery exercise alongside Fort Bragg Soldiers,

April 23. The Coca-Cola 600 pre-race press event was

coordinated by the Fort Bragg Public Affairs Office,

Community Engagement Team to give Kahne a taste

of Army life on Fort Bragg.

Paratroopers from the 1st Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, paint children’s faces during the squadron’s Cav. Kid’s Day on Fort Bragg, N.C., Aug. 22. (82nd Airborne Division Photo by Sgt. Eliverto V. Larios)

National Museum of the Marine Corps

Quantico, Virginia’s Iron Mike is officially titled "Crusading for Right". It depicts a World War I Marine holding a 1903 Springfield rifle, wearing a pack with a bayonet.

At the end of the war, US Army General John J. Pershing commissioned the French sculptor Charles Raphaël Peyre (sometimes Raphael Charles, 1872—1949) to commemorate the service of the US Army’s "doughboys". The sculptor, unaware of the differences between the branches of service, used a Marine private as a model and included the Eagle, Globe and Anchor insignia on the helmet.

Today, the original statue stands at the Marine Corps Base Quantico in front of Butler Hall, home of the Marine Corps Training and Education Command. A reproduction with the name "Iron Mike" on its pedestal stands in front of the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Triangle, Virginia.

Andrea Ray, Master Resilience Training performance expert and teen course instructor, talks to the teens attending a Comprehensive Soldier and Family Fitness Training class, Aug. 5, about “activating events” in their lives and how their brains drive their reactions to these events.

Smoke Bomb Hill Chapel

Parishioners sing hymns together during the annual Long Street Presbyterian Church

reunion, June 29. The annual event attracts present and past members to the historical

church, located on the Fort Bragg reservation. The church is one of the oldest Presbyterian

churches in North Carolina

Military spouses attending the third annual Fort Bragg Spouse Wellness Conference listen to the keynote speaker, Joe DeSena Spartan Race founder/CEO May 7 at the Family Readiness Group Center. DeSensa spoke to the spouses about overcoming adversity as a road to success.

3rd Aerial Port Squadron defeats 382nd Air Support Operations Squadron 23-13 at Hercules Fitness Center softball field Monday. The game was close in the first two innings. By the third inning, 3rd APS started taking control of the game outscoring 682nd ASOS by three runs in the third and fourth innings. Due to time, the game ended in the fifth inning as 3rd APS held their opponent scoreless in the final inning for the victory.

Paratroopers assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division load a CH-47 Chinook assigned to the 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade during airborne operations, Fort Bragg, N.C. Jan. 6. In two days, over 1,500 paratroopers are expected to exit the Chinook.

The Fight Lab 44 MMA match at Sports USA on 7 Feb 15 drew a large audience to watch 10 bouts. A mixture of weight classes were represented in the fights and the night ended with three pro fights.

Bout 10 saw Willam Brown, in black with blue stripe, fight Nick Grady, in black. William Brown Wins by Decision (Unanimous Decision)

Students from The Nueva School, in San Mateo, California, get a lesson about Fort Bragg and military history from Linda Carnes-McNaughton, Fort Bragg archeologist, during a visit to Long Street Church, Feb. 24.

Samuel Alexander Oppong, 16 months, holds a glow necklace

before the start of the 2nd Annual Neon Run at the corner of Longstreet

and Reilly roads, Saturday.

Soldiers take combatives training

Rebecca Jackson and Michael Edwards, both with Nutrition Connection Health and Fitness, participate in kettlebell training, Feb. 11, at Hercules Physical Fitness Center, at Pope Field. Edwards is training to participate in her third Mike-to-Mike Half Marathon, April 3

Col. Eugenia Guilmartin (left), 16th Military Police Brigade commander, presents the Major General Horatio Gates Bronze Medal to Staff Sgt. Stefen Neuwar (right), Aug. 7. The Horatio Gates Medal is awarded for distinguished achievements and service of individuals of the Adjutant General’s Corps, Adjutant General’s Corps Regimental Association, or human resources professionals. The Horatio Gates Bronze Medal is the second highest award authorized by the Adjutant General’s Corps Regimental Association. According to the vice president of AG Awards branch, this is first Horatio Gates award handed out within the 16th Military Police Brigade.