Frontline Photos: Feb. 18, 2015

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  • Recruits run through a bayonet assault course on Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, Feb. 2, 2015. The exercise included tire stabbing, getting in and out of a trench and using commands to conduct a combat rush. The recruits are assigned to Bravo Company, 1st Recruit Training Battalion. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Jericho W. Crutcher
  • WASHINGTON, DC – FEBRUARY 17: Ashton Carter (R) is sworn in as U.S. Secretary of Defense by Vice President Joe Biden (L) as Carter’s wife Stephanie (2nd L) looks on February 17, 2015 in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC. Carter has become the 25th U.S. Secretary of Defense. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
  • WESTHAMNPTON BEACH, NY – Members of the 106th Civil Engineering Squadron, 106th Rescue Wing clear snow form the flightline and walkways during a major snowstorm on February 17, 2015. (New York Air National Guard / Staff Sergeant Christopher S Muncy / released)
  • ARABIAN GULF (Feb. 13, 2015) Sailors aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Mitscher (DDG 57) remove cargo nets from supplies after a vertical replenishment with the Military Sealift Command dry cargo and ammunition ship USNS Charles Drew (T-AKE 10) as an SA-330J Puma helicopter flies supplies to the USS Milius (DDG 69), background, left. Mitscher is deployed in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations supporting Operation Inherent Resolve, strike operations in Iraq and Syria as directed, maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts in the region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Anthony R. Martinez/Released) 150213-N-RB546-118 Join the conversation: http://www.navy.mil/viewGallery.asp http://www.facebook.com/USNavy http://www.twitter.com/USNavy http://navylive.dodlive.mil http://pinterest.com https://plus.google.com
  • Marine Corps Cpl. Justin M. Goodchild, right, assists Pfc. Luis A. Chavez with locating a simulated enemy target during ground-based air defense training on Marine Corps Outlying Field Atlantic, N.C., Feb. 3, 2015. Goodchild and Chavez are low-altitude air defense gunners assigned to 2nd Low Altitude Air Defense Battalion. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. J. R. Heins
  • Eddie Ray Routh enters the courtroom following a break in his capital murder trial at the Erath County, Donald R. Jones Justice Center in Stephenville, Texas, Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2015. Routh is charged with the 2013 deaths of former Navy SEAL Chris Kyle and his friend Chad Littlefield at a shooting range near Glen Rose, Texas. (AP Photo/Mike Stone, Pool)
  • Members of the media (background) tour the deck of the USS Fort Worth (LCS 3), berthed at Sembawang Wharves in Singapore on February 17, 2015. The US Navy’s littoral combat ship USS Fort Worth arrived in Singapore to conduct the first of three “crew swaps” which occur roughly every four months during their 16-month rotational deployment. AFP PHOTO / ROSLAN RAHMANROSLAN RAHMAN/AFP/Getty Images
  • WEST ROXBURY, Mass. – Soldiers from the Massachusetts National Guard’s 379th Engineer Company of Buzzards Bay, Mass clear snow caused by Winter Storm Neptune at Bellevue Station, here on Feb. 16th, 2015. The guardsmen assisted the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority and the department of public works in clearing station parking and reducing the size of snow banks. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Sgt. Darius Brown, 65th Public Affairs Operations Center/Released)
  • Sen. Richard H. Black, R-Loudoun, right, a USMC Vietnam veteran, is surrounded by Senate pages as he tells of how a fellow Marine, CPL Ismael Franco, was saved by his helmet, left, after a bullet hit it and gave him a concussion during a firefight with the North Vietnamese. Black, who donated the helmet, along with his pilot’s helmet to the Virginia War Memorial, was presented a US flag, lower left, handmade and signed by all the pages in the Virginia Senate inside the State Capitol in Richmond, Va., Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2015. (AP Photo/Richmond Times-Dispatch, Bob Brown)
  • WASHINGTON, DC – FEBRUARY 17: U.S. President Barack Obama (C) talks to reporters at the end of a meeting with Vice President Joe Biden (L) and newly-sworn in Defense Secretary Ashton Carter in the Oval Office at the White House February 17, 2015 in Washington, DC. Carter was sworn in as the new Pentagon chief earlier in the day. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)