Frontline Photos April 22, 2016

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  • Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, MD – Seaman Justin Kuffel thrusts a rifle and bayonet inches from U.S. Navy Airman Brady Smith’s face during a training session at their facility at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, Maryland on April 21st, 2016. Seaman Kuffel and Airman Smith are both members of the U.S. Navy’s Ceremonial Guard Drill Team, who specialize in demonstrations such as these. While the training may seem dangerous, every step, pivot, and movement are meticulously choreographed. The Ceremonial Guard’s main mission is to represent the service in Presidential, Joint Armed Forces, Navy and public ceremonies in and around the nation’s capital. Members are selected directly from basic, and train continuously throughout the length of their tour. (U.S. Air National Guard / Staff Sgt. Christopher S. Muncy / released)
  • 1st Sgt. Jose Casillas and Sgt 1st Class Tim Shay, Paratroopers assigned to 307th Brigade Engineer Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division haul a tactical vehicle during the Best Sapper Competition at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., April 21, 2016. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Anthony Hewitt/ Released)
  • Texas Guardsmen from the 736th Component Repair Company, 36th Sustainment Brigade, 36th Infantry Division work alongside local and state emergency responders to rescue Texans in need from severe flooding in Houston, Texas, April 19, 2016. Texas Guardsmen, working with Harris County emergency response units and Texas Task Force 1, rescued 140 people in five hours. (U.S. Army National Guard photo courtesy of 736th Component Repair Company, 36th Sustainment Brigade/Released)
  • Japan Ground Self Defense Force personnel carry supplies from a U.S. Marine Corps MV-22B Osprey tiltrotor aircraft from Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 265 (Reinforced), 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), in Hakusui Sports Park, Kyushu island, Japan, April 22, 2016. The supplies are in support of the relief effort after a series of earthquakes struck the island of Kyushu. The 31st MEU is the only continually forward-deployed MEU and remains the Marine Corps’ force-in-readiness in the Asia-Pacific region. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Darien J. Bjorndal, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit/ Released)
  • U.S. Air Force crew chiefs with the 153rd Maintenance Group, Wyoming Air National Guard tow an aircraft inside a hangar to facilitate maintenance, Apr. 21, 2016 in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Maintainers must tow the aircraft in the hangar when wind gusts are out of limits to perform certain types of repairs. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Charles Delano/released)
  • The 88th Regional Support Command’s New Equipment Fielding Facility is currently hosting Soldiers from the 200th MP Command and the 416th Engineer Command during a CROWS Materiel Fielding and Training exercise at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin. The Soldiers participated in a familiarization fire on April 21st. The familiarization fire was part of Tank-automotive and Armaments Command’s Operator New Equipment Training for Soldiers on the operation of this weapon platform to improve operational readiness. The 88th RSC supports this training by receiving the equipment, facilitating the training with space and resources, preparing vehicles for installation of the weapon platform and facilitating the hand off of the equipment to the unit. The 88th RSC has 2 NEFF sites, at Fort McCoy, Wis. and Ogden, Utah and currently services a 24 state region, including states in the 63rd RSC Region, which encompasses over 1300 units directly supported over the last 6 years.
  • 1st Sgt. Jose Casillas, a Paratrooper assigned to 307th Brigade Engineer Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team conducts a dynamic thermal breach during the Best Sapper Competition at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., April 19, 2016. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Anthony Hewitt/Released)
  • A Lithuanian soldier slides down a fast rope from a Latvian Mi-17 helicopter during fast rope insertion extraction training, April 21 at Lielvarde Air Base, Latvia. Soldiers assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Troop, 3rd Squadron, 2nd Cavalry Regiment joined allies from Latvia, Canada, Lithuania and Germany for the training, which ended with special purpose insertion extraction exercises. Soldiers from the five North Atlantic Treaty Organization nations have been conducting a variety of training together during Summer Shield XIII, an annual two-week long interoperability training event in Latvia.(U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Paige Behringer, 10th Press Camp Headquarters)
  • Spc. Christopher McCullough, an information technology specialist, conducts ‘port arms’ during an official honor cordon welcoming Maj. Gen. Almantas Leika, the Lithuanian Land Force’s commanding general, to U.S. Army Europe headquarters, April 21. Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges welcomed the commander personally, as the visit has been long anticipated by both commanders.
  • 1st Lt. Joshua McCormick, a Paratrooper assigned to 307th Brigade Engineer Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division breaches a steel door using physical force during the Best Sapper Competition at Fort Leonard Wood Mo., April 21, 2016. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Anthony Hewitt/Released)