This week, the U.S. navy remembered the 78th anniversary of D-Day, the Allied amphibious invasion of Nazi-controlled France throughout World Struggle II. 5 Marines died in an Osprey crash in southern California on Wednesday, the second deadly crash for the platform this yr and one in every of three deadly plane crashes in every week. Two years after Iran launched missiles at Al Asad Air Base, Iraq, in January 2020, members of the Nationwide Guard lastly acquired Purple Hearts for traumatic mind accidents sustained from the assault.
Marines with third Battalion, 2nd Marines, board an MV-22B Osprey for an insertion train from Okinawa to mainland Japan on June 9, 2022. (Lance Cpl. Lorenzo Ducato/U.S. Marine Corps)
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A soldier with the New Jersey Army Nationwide Guard runs by way of the end line throughout the Satisfaction 5K Coloration Stroll/Run on Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey, on June 9, 2022. (Airman Simonne Barker/U.S. Air Pressure)
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U.S. Air Pressure Col. Benjamin Jonsson, sixth Air Refueling Wing commander, throws the primary pitch at a Tampa Bay Rays baseball recreation on June 8, 2022. (Caption & Photograph: Airman 1st Class Joshua Hastings/U.S. Air Pressure)
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The Missouri Nationwide Guard MedEvac Workforce lifts a casualty in its Black Hawk helicopters throughout a MedEvac coaching train at Camp Clark in Nevada, Missouri, on June 7, 2022. (Caption & Photograph: Employees Sgt. Audrey Chappell/U.S. Air Nationwide Guard)
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Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Employees, and Lt. Gen. Chris Donahue, commanding basic of the XVIII Airborne Corps and the final American service member to depart Afghanistan after 20 years of struggle within the nation, converse with veterans on the 82nd Airborne Division’s D-Day ceremony in Normandy, France, on June 6, 2022. (Spc. Vincent Levelev/U.S. Army)
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