Commander of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), Gen. John Campbell, left, and Command Sgt. Maj. Delbert Byers open the “Resolute Support” flag during a ceremony at the ISAF headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Dec. 28, 2014. The United States and NATO formally ended their war in Afghanistan on Sunday with the ceremony at their military headquarters in Kabul as the insurgency they fought for 13 years remains as ferocious and deadly as at any time since the 2001 invasion that unseated the Taliban regime following the Sept. 11 attacks. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)
Vice President Joe Biden and Dr. Jill Biden thank nurses and doctors during a Christmas Day visit to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, in Bethesda, Maryland, Dec. 25, 2014. (Official White House Photo by David Lienemann)
U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Ty-Michael Maes, left, directs his fire team during a live-fire assault exercise with the Saudi marines as part of exercise Red Reef 15 in Ras Al Khair, Saudi Arabia, Dec. 16, 2014. Maes is a team leader assigned to 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance detachment, Battalion Landing Team, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines, 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit.
U.S. Marine Corps photo by Gunnery Sgt. Rome M. Lazarus
U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Cole Haldeman fires an M777 A2 howitzer during a live-fire exercise on Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, N.C., Dec. 17, 2014.
U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Paul S. Martinez
Cmdr. Mark Haney, USS Fort Worth (LCS 3) Crew 104 executive officer, speaks with young children during a tour of the littoral combat ship while docked in Jakarta as part of a five-day port visit to Indonesia. Currently on a 16-month rotational deployment in support of the Asia-Pacific Rebalance, Fort Worth is a fast and agile warship tailor-made to patrol the region’s littorals and work hull-to-hull with partner navies, providing 7th Fleet with the flexible capabilities it needs now and in the future. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Antonio P. Turretto Ramos/Released)
First Lt. Nathaniel Zimmerly, a contract officer for Joint Forces Command – United Assistance, tours an Ebola treatment unit built in support of Operation United Assistance prior to handing over the facility to a international aid organization in Tappita, Liberia, Dec. 27, 2014. United Assistance is a Department of Defense operation to provide command and control, logistics, training and engineering support to U.S. Agency for International Development-led efforts to contain the Ebola virus outbreak in West African nations. (U.S. Army Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Brien Vorhees, 55th Signal Company (Combat Camera) / Released)
U.S. Army Maj. Juli Fung provides a medical screening for a Honduran child during a Medical Readiness Training Exercise in the Department of Gracias a Dios, near Soto Cano Air Base, Honduras. Dec. 17, 2014. Fung is assigned to Joint Task Force-BravoÕs Medical Element, which provided medical care to more than 1,500 Honduran citizens during the two-day operation.
U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Jason Tedesco
HAIFA, Israel (Dec. 23, 2014) Sailors aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Cole (DDG 67) stand by their lines as a tug boat maneuvers the ship into positing for mooring in Haifa, Israel, for a scheduled port visit. Cole is conducting naval operations in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of responsibility in support of U.S. national security interests in Europe. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class John Herman/Released) 141223-N-IY142-094
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Coast Guard Petty Officer 1st Class Denis Butierries holds his son Jacob for a view of Honolulu Harbor during a tour of the Coast Guard Cutter Rush in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Dec. 23. 2014. Six-year-old Jacob was diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy when he was four months old and was given between four months and one year to live.
U.S. Coast Guard photo by Chief Petty Officer Kurt Fredrickson
Coast Guard helicopters fly over Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium at the start of the Military Bowl 2014 in Annapolis, Md., Dec. 27, 2014. Virginia Tech beat Cincinnati 33-17. (DoD News photo by EJ Hersom)
