
Malik Giordano, 8, of Baltimore high fives Staff Sgt. Dan Holtz of A Company, 1-175th Infantry, Maryland National Guard outside City Hall in Baltimore, Md., on Tuesday, April 28, 2015. Maryland governor Larry Hogan activated the Guard after rioting in the wake of the funeral of Freddie Gray who died in police custody. (Mike Morones/Army Times) 
Spc. Everardo watches as a CH-47F helicopter from D Company, 1st Battalion, 52d Aviation Regiment, flies along the crevasses of Kahiltna Glacier April 27, 2015, on the way to the 7,000-foot high base camp for climbers attempting to summit Mount McKinley. Soldiers and Chinooks from the D/1-52d “Sugar Bears” made short work of delivering several thousand pounds of equipment to base camps at 7,000 and 14,000 feet for the 2015 climbing season, saving money and time for the National Park Service and gaining invaluable experience operating at altitudes and in terrain not available for training missions outside Alaska. (Army photo/John Pennell) 
150424-N-SD120-079 OKINAWA, Japan (April 24, 2015) Ensign John Parada, a civil engineering officer assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 5, helps carry a simulated causality on an improvised stretcher at Jungle Warfare Training Center in Okinawa. More than 60 Seabees from NMCB-5 attended the week long course taught by Marine instructors. The course is designed to prepare Marines and joint forces for the rigors of combat in a dense jungle environment. NMCB-5 is currently deployed to Japan and several countries in the Pacific area of operations conducting construction operations and humanitarian assistance projects. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class John P. Curtis/Released) 
Sgt. D.S. Dickerson, a soldier with the Maryland National Guard’s 200th Military Police Company stands in front of a damaged storefront in Baltimore, Md., on Wednesday, April 29, 2015. Maryland governor Larry Hogan activated the Guard after rioting in the wake of the funeral of Freddie Gray who died in police custody. (Mike Morones/Staff) 
An M1A2 Abrams fires a 120mm round at a target during live-fire qualifications at the Udairi Range Complex, Kuwait, April 26, 2015. U.S. Army photo by Capt. Shaun Manley 
150426-N-XB010-859 MEDITERRANEAN SEA (April 26, 2015) Boatswain’s Mate 2nd Class Marcus Jones, from Anderson, S.C., directs a helicopter during flight operations aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Laboon (DDG 58). Laboon is conducting naval operations in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of operations in support of U.S. national security interests in Europe. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Desmond Parks/Released) 
Airmen load pallets of equipment and supplies for victims of the Nepal earthquake into a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III aircraft on March Air Force Base, Calif., April 26, 2015. U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Taylor Queen 
A Marine with Bravo Company, 2nd Reconnaissance Battalion prepares to jump from a CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter at an altitude of 6,000 feet during a four-day certification exercise aboard Marine Corps Outlying Field Atlantic, N.C., April 23, 2015. Marines commenced the exercise performing inserts through helocasting and double-bag static lines to collect information on the objective. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Fatmeh Saad/Released) 
Soldiers with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment, 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division participate in a tug-of-war after planting trees April 27, 2015, at Camp Konotop, Poland. The project is the latest event to take place as part of Operation Atlantic Resolve, an ongoing multinational partnership focused on joint training and security cooperation between NATO allies, whose mission is the continued peace and stability of Europe. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Marcus Floyd, 13th Public Affairs Detachment) 
U.S. Army Spc. Adrianna Maza, left, vaccinates a womanÕs dog during a veterinary care event as part of Continuing Promise 2015 in Puerto Barrios, Guatemala, April 23, 2015. Continuing Promise is a U.S. Southern Command-sponsored deployment. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Maddelin Angebrand 
President Barack Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe watch as the United States Army Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps march past on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, April 28, 2015, during a state arrival ceremony for the prime minister. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)



