A recruit with Bravo Company, 1st Recruit Training Battalion, executes a rear hand punch during a Marine Corps Martial Arts Program session at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, Nov. 25. Although recruits will have several more MCMAP sessions before graduation, each is equally important because they will be tested on everything they learned in order to earn their tan belt in MCMAP, which is the first level and a graduation requirement. Today, all males recruited from west of the Mississippi are trained at MCRD San Diego. The depot is responsible for training more than 16,000 recruits annually. Bravo Company is scheduled to graduate Feb. 12.
U.S Army soldiers serving in the NATO-led peacekeeping mission in Kosovo are served traditional Thanksgiving meal by their superiors in a U.S. military base Camp Bondsteel, near the village of Sojeve in Kosovo on Thursday, Nov. 26, 2015. It is the 16th Thanksgiving for hundreds of U.S. solders serving in the NATO-led peacekeeping mission in Kosovo. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)
Service members write messages on a bomb inside one of the B-1 Lancer bomb bays during a tour of the aircraft at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, Nov. 24. Forty service members took part in the tour which featured a presentation of the B-1's capabilities and videos showcasing strikes the bomber has carried out. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. James Hodgman/Released)
Staff Sgt. Andre Hayes, 374th Civil Engineer Squadron journeyman, holds his daughter during the holiday tree lighting ceremony at Yokota Air Base, Japan, Nov. 24, 2015. The lighting of the tree signals the beginning of the holiday season. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Delano Scott/Released)
Tech. Sgt. Jared Warner is greeted by his family as the 116th Air Control Squadron returns home from their deployments in support of Operation Inherent Resolve, Operation Resolute Support, and Combined Defense of the Arabian Gulf, Nov. 25, 2015, Portland Air National Guard Base, Ore. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Shelly Davison, 142nd Fighter Wing Public Affairs/Released)
U.S. Soldiers of 5th Squadron, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division, stationed at Fort Stewart, Ga., fold the U.S. flag during the closing ceremony of Exercise Peace Sentinel at Novo Selo Training Center, Bulgaria, Nov. 24, 2015. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Steven M. Colvin/Released)
151125-N-IN729-233 WATERS SOUTH OF JAPAN (Nov. 25, 2015) Sailors spray the deck of the hangar bay with aqueous film forming foam prior to a SCRUBEX cleaning evolution aboard the U.S. Navy's only forward-deployed aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76). Ronald Reagan and its embarked air wing, Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 5, provide a combat-ready force that protects and defends the collective maritime interests of the U.S. and its allies and partners in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Ryan McFarlane/Released)
151126-N-TE278-031 WATERS SOUTH OF JAPAN (Nov. 26, 2015) Chief Aviation Boatswain's Mate (Handling) William Sum, left, Air Department crash and salvage leading chief petty officer, attaches crash and salvage equipment to a crane during a simulated emergency exercise on the flight deck of the U.S. Navy's only forward-deployed aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76). Ronald Reagan and its embarked air wing, Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 5, provide a combat-ready force that protects and defends the collective maritime interests of the U.S. and its allies and partners in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Paolo Bayas/Released)
151126-N-ZG705-143 ATLANTIC OCEAN (Nov. 26, 2015) Sailors aboard aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) greet Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John M. Richardson on the flight deck. Richardson visited Harry S. Truman for the Thanksgiving holiday with Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy Mike Stevens. Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group is deployed to support maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts in the U.S. 5th and 6th Fleet areas of operation. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class K. H. Anderson/Released)
151126-N-ZG705-230 ATLANTIC OCEAN (Nov. 26, 2015) Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy Mike Stevens greets Sailors during a frocking ceremony in the hangar bay aboard aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75). Stevens visited Harry S. Truman for the Thanksgiving holiday with the Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John M. Richardson. Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group is deployed to support maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts in the U.S. 5th and 6th Fleet areas of operation. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class K. H. Anderson/Released)
In this photo taken on Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2015, the U.S. Navy's newest warship, the USS Milwaukee sits docked in Detroit at the Port of Detroit on its way to San Diego where it will be home-ported. The USS Milwaukee was commissioned last week in her namesake city. The ship will be the sister ship of the future USS Detroit which will receive its designation next year. (Tanya Moutzalias \The Ann Arbor News via AP) LOCAL TELEVISION OUT; LOCAL INTERNET OUT; MANDATORY CREDIT
151126-N-OI810-035 WATERS SOUTH OF JAPAN (Nov. 26, 2015) Sailors participate in Morale, Welfare and Recreation's Turkey Trot 5K on the flight deck of the U.S. Navy's only forward-deployed aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76). Ronald Reagan and its embarked air wing, Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 5, provide a combat-ready force that protects and defends the collective maritime interests of its allies and partners in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Nathan Burke/Released)