Top 10 Military Photos of the Week 9/21/17

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Marines assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (31st MEU) prepare to disembark the amphibious dock landing ship USS Ashland (LSD 48) at White Beach Naval Facility in Okinawa, Japan.

U.S. Army Command Sgt. Maj. Shelita Taylor, the command sergeant major of the 400th Military Police Battalion, U.S. Army Reserve, dons and clears her gas mask during a team-building ruck march held by the 200th Military Police Command during a 'CSM Huddle' in Scottsdale, Arizona, Sept. 16, 2017.

Sailors assemble an emergency crash barricade while conducting a general quarters drill on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75).

Sgt. Elvis Nunez, a rifleman with 3rd Battalion 4th Marines attached to Task Force Koa Moana 17, assesses an area during a raid for the culminating event of Exercise Crocodilo in Metinaro, Timor Leste, Sept. 13, 2017.

Two U.S. Air Force F-16 Flying Falcon aircraft are seen in hangars during Exercise Beverly Herd 17-3 at Osan Air Base, Republic of Korea, Sept. 17, 2017.

U.S. Soldiers fire Ruffle and Flourish Salute during the opening ceremony of the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Team of the Year at Fort A.P. Hill, Va., Sept. 10, 2017.

The amphibious dock landing ship USS Pearl Harbor (LSD 52), seen in reflection, steams in formation while participating in a photo exercise during Alligator Dagger 2017 in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations Sept. 16, 2017.

U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Tyler Morrow, a rifleman with Company B, 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division, preforms a functions check on his M240 machine gun during Deep Strike II in the River Valley, Calif., Sept. 13, 2017.

The guided-missile destroyer USS Oscar Austin (DDG 79) transits the Atlantic Ocean Sept. 14, 2017.

U.S. Marines with the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit Ground Combat Element, mortar platoon, watch as an illumination mortar lights up the evening sky during Alligator Dagger in Djibouti Sept. 13, 2017.