Frontline Photos: April 23, 2015

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  • U.S. Marines assigned to Headquarters and Support Battalion, Marine Corps Installations East-Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, applaud after an Earth Day run on Camp Lejeune, N.C., April 22, 2015. The purpose of the run was to enhance unit cohesion and demonstrate support for environmental protection. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Christopher Q. Stone, MCI-East Combat Camera/Released)
  • U.S. Marines assigned to Headquarters and Support Battalion, Marine Corps Installations East-Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune carry trash during an Earth Day run on Camp Lejeune, N.C., April 22, 2015. The purpose of the run was to enhance unit cohesion and demonstrate support for environmental protection. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Christopher Q. Stone, MCI-East Combat Camera/Released)
  • U.S. Marines assigned to Security Company, Headquarters and Support Battalion, Marine Corps Installations East-Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, carry a mattress after an Earth Day run on Camp Lejeune, N.C., April 22, 2015. The purpose of the run was to enhance unit cohesion and demonstrate support for environmental protection. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Christopher Q. Stone, MCI-East Combat Camera/Released)
  • SAN PEDRO, Calif. – A Coast Guard Diver (DV) assigned to Coast Guard Dive Locker West, prepares to enter for the water from the Coast Guard Cutter George Cobb in the waters off San Pedro, April 22, 2015. The training evolution was the Coast Guard’s first ever decompression dive, which recently stood up a job rating specifically for diving. (U.S. Coast Guard photograph by Petty Officer 1st Class Adam Eggers)
  • Lance Cpl. Stephen Milisits, a rifleman with C. Co., 1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, posts security for his fire team as they move a Marine with a simulated injury to a Corpsman during a counter improvised explosive device training exercise aboard Camp Lejeune, N.C., April 22, 2015. The Marines laid down suppressing fire on mock-enemies with simulated rounds as they recovered from the imitation blast. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Kaitlyn Klein/Released)
  • Marines with Battery A, 1st Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division embrace the impact from the M777A2 155 mm, medium, towed howitzer during Exercise Desert Scimitar 2015 aboard Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, Calif., April 20, 2015. The tough, realistic live-fire training central to Desert Scimitar allows Division units to train in order to maintain readiness and meet current and real-world operational demands.
  • Marines with 1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, work quickly to send rounds down range during a live-fire mortar range aboard Camp Lejeune, N.C., April 21-22, 2015. To ensure their readiness, these mortarmen practice their proficiency with the 60 mm and 81 mm mortar systems monthly. In a deployed environment, these two weapon systems are key assets to the infantry because of their ability to suppress the enemy in a timely and effective manner due to its firepower and mobility. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Olivia McDonald/Released)
  • 150423-N-ZN259-337 ATLANTIC OCEAN (April 23, 2015) Ensign Stephen Bates, USS Porter (DDG 78) first lieutenant, serves as the boat officer aboard a rigid hull inflatable boat as it returns to the ship following small boat operations April 23, 2015. Porter, an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, is in route to Rota, Spain, where it will operate forward-deployed in support of U.S. 6th Fleet operations. U.S. 6th Fleet, headquartered in Naples, Italy, conducts the full spectrum of joint and naval operations, often in concert with allied, joint and interagency partners, in order to advance U.S. national interests and security and stability in Europe and Africa. (US Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Karen E. Cozza/Released)
  • Firemen from the Fire Protection Division at the Stuttgart Army Airfield conducts joint training with Stuttgart Airport’s German fire department testing equipment and experiencing putting out propane fires at the Stuttgart Army Airfield, April 22, 2015. (US Army Photo Released) (Photo by Martin Greeson)
  • 150422-N-ED185-006 TOKYO BAY, Japan (April 22, 2015) – The Los Angeles-class fast-attack submarine USS Oklahoma City (SSN 723) is tugged to Fleet Activities Yokosuka before a regular scheduled port visit. The scheduled visit was part of Oklahoma City’s Western Pacific deployment. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Brian G. Reynolds/ Released)
  • NAVAL STATION ROTA, Spain (April 22, 2015) – Naval Station Rota Command Master Chief Delbert Terrell Jr., left, and Capt. Greg Pekari, NAVSTA commanding officer, throw dirt onto a newly-planted tree during an Earth Day tree-planting ceremony. This is the 156th tree planted on NAVSTA in the last seven days. The Navy’s 2015 theme for Earth Day, “A Sustainable Future Begins with You,” underscores the ripple effect of each individual’s actions that benefit the environment and help ensure a viable planet for generations to come. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Brian Dietrick/Released)
  • News correspondents from Swedish News Agency YLE conducts a broadcast interview with Soldiers from 2nd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division out of Fort Stewart, Ga., while riding a M1A2 Abrams Battle Tank during a media engagement as part of Operation Atlantic Resolve, held in Adazi, Latvia, April 23. (Photo by U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Brooks Fletcher, 16th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment)