Frontline Photos: May 24, 2016

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  • A U.S. Army CH-47 Chinook from the 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade lands at Latham Drop Zone during the Little Group of Paratroopers (LGOP) part of All American Week, Fort Bragg, N.C., May 23, 2016. The LGOP event tested the paratroopers on their essential task list with events such as rigging their equipment, readying their equipment for service, and a layout of all required equipment. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Christopher Freeman)
  • Navy Ensign Eric Abney, center, and the other graduates of the Air Force and Naval ROTC program at Yale University attend the Joint Military Commissioning Ceremony at Yale University’s Battell Chapel in New Haven, Conn., Monday, May 23, 2016. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter handed out commissions Monday to the Yale’s first ROTC graduating class in more than four decades. (Arnold Gold/New Haven Register via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT
  • U.S. Army Soldiers assigned to 1st Battalion, 28th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division move under the cover of smoke, during Decisive Action Rotation 16-06 at the National Training Center, Fort Irwin Calif. May 16th 2016. (U.S. Army Photo by Spc. Kyle Edwards, Operations Group, National Training Center)
  • ANNAPOLIS, MD – MAY 23: US Naval Academy freshmen Chris Bianchi stands on the shoulders of others as he places an officers hat on top of the the lard covered Herndon Monument on May 23, 2016 in Annapolis, Maryland. Each year the freshman class, known as ‘Plebes,’ climb the monument at the Naval Academy to retrieve the Plebian Sailor’s hat and replace it with an officer’s hat. The tradition is one step in marking the end of wearing freshman headgear and moving up to the headgear of a U.S. Naval officer. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
  • During a training exercise, US servicemen during U.S. led joint military exercise Noble Partner 2016, at Vaziani military base, outside Tbilisi, Georgia, Tuesday, May 24, 2016. (AP Photo/Shakh Aivazov)
  • Members of the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds perform an enlistment ceremony during the Shaw Air Expo and open house, “Thunder Over the Midlands” at Shaw Air Force Base, S.C., May 21, 2016. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Kelsey Tucker)
  • U.S. Marine Corps recruits with Company M., 3rd Recruit Training Battalion, Recruit Training Regiment, conduct Pugil Stick training as part of the Marine Corps Martial Arts Program training at Leatherneck Square on Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island, May 23, 2016. Marine Corps Martial Arts Program is part of the training the recruits must complete in order to become U.S. Marines. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Richard Currier/Released)
  • Graduates toss their caps in the air at the end of a graduation and commissioning ceremony at the U.S. Military Academy on Saturday, May 21, 2016, in West Point, N.Y. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)
  • U.S. Marines and Jordanian soldiers use a decontamination shower during Exercise Eager Lion in Jordan, May 22, 2016. Eager Lion 16 is a bi-lateral exercise in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan between the U.S. military and Jordanian armed forces designed to strengthen relationships and interoperability between partner nations. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Timothy A. Hose)
  • A military honor guard carries the casket containing remains of Army Pvt. Earl Joseph Keating as it arrives at the Schoen Funeral Home in New Orleans, Monday, May 23, 2016. More than seven decades after being killed during World War II, Keating’s remains have finally come home to his native New Orleans after being discovered on the island of New Guinea where he died in 1942. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
  • Sergeant Major of the Army Daniel Dailey meets with Soldiers assigned to the 1st Battalion, 41st Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division during a visit to Camp Nothing Hill, Kosovo, May 19. Sgt. Maj. of the Army Dailey visited Soldiers deployed to Kosovo May 17-20. (U.S. Army photo by: Staff Sgt. Thomas Duval, Multinational Battle Group-East Public Affairs)
  • Lynne Frazier Overman, right, ride captain for Patriot Guard Riders, waits on the I-40/Whitten Rd. overpass as she looks for veterans participating in the annual Run the Wall motorcycle cross-country trip Monday, May 23, 2016,g in Cordova, Tenn. The veterans are traveling ten days from Ontario, California to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. on a mission to honor military personnel who were killed in action and to support veterans and their family and friends. The group expects to meet on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Saturday before Memorial Day and will proceed to The Wall. (Yalonda M. James/The Commercial Appeal via AP)