An F-16 "Thunderbird" with the U.S. Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron approaches show center during the third and final day of the Cleveland National Air Show Sept. 6 in Ohio. (Tech. Sgt. Nicolas A. Myers/Air Force)
Army paratroopers assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 509th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, U.S. Army Alaska, fire the M3 Multi-Role Anti-Armor Anti-Personnel Weapon System, also known as the Carl Gustaf, during live-fire training at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Sept. 15. (Alejandro Peña/Air Force)
Lt. j.g. Chunchun Waskin, left, and Seaman Samuel Figueroa Lopez scan the sea for surface contacts aboard the guided missile-destroyer Barry as it transits the Taiwan Strait Sept. 17. (MC3 Justin Stack/Navy)
Participants in the live-fire exercise Jaded Thunder disembark from a Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey assigned to Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 163 after an incentive flight at Hulman Field in Terre Haute, Ind., Aug. 22. (Staff Sgt. Lonnie Wiram/Air National Guard)
An Indonesian Air Force F-16 flies next to a U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress assigned to the 2nd Bomb Wing, Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, in the Indo-Pacific region Sept. 1. This is the first time a B-52 has integrated with the Indonesian Air Force. (Courtesy of Indonesian Air Force)
An E-2D Advanced Hawkeye, assigned to the “Black Eagles” of Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron 113, launches off the aircraft carrier Carl Vinson in the Pacific Sept. 5. (MCSN Mason Congleton/Navy)
Paratroopers assigned to the 1st Battalion, 319th Field Artillery Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, engage in a combined arms live-fire exercise on Fort Bragg, N.C., Sept. 15. (Pfc. Vincent Levelev/Army)
Marine Corps Sgt. Louis Martin, left, and Cpl. Montana Bingen, both fixed-wing aircraft crew masters with Marine Aerial Refueler Transport 152, Marine Aircraft Group 12, 1st Marine Air Wing, prepare to deploy cargo rigged with a parachute from the back of a C-130 aircraft during an air delivery exercise over Ie Shima island, Okinawa, Japan, Sept. 15. (Sgt. Hailey D. Clay/Marine Corps)
Airmen from the 91st Security Forces Group Tactical Response Force prepare for the Global Strike Challenge at Minot Air Force Base, N.D., Aug 27. (Senior Airman Dillon J. Audit/Air Force)
U.S. soldiers with various units across Europe rappel from a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter during an air assault course conducted by an Army National Guard mobile training team from Fort Benning, Georgia, at the 7th Army Training Command's Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany, Sept. 16. (Markus Rauchenberger/Army)
