Top 10 Military Photos of the Week 9/28/17

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Photo by EJ Hersom/DoD

U.S. Army veteran Kelly Elmlinger races a wheelchair during the 2017 Invictus Games in Toronto, Canada Sept. 24, 2017. The Invictus Games, established by Prince Harry in 2014, brings together wounded and injured veterans from 17 nations for 12 adaptive sporting events.

Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Sean Galbreath/U.S. Navy

Naval Aircrewman (Helicopter) 2nd Class Brandon Larnard, assigned to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 22, embarked aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Wasp (LHD 1), carries an evacuee off an MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter following the landfall of Hurricane Maria on the island of Dominica.

Photo by SSgt. Marcin Platek/U.S. Marine Corps

A Marine with Marine Rotational Force-Europe holds a defensive position during Exercise Aurora 17 in Lärbro, Sweden, Sept. 20, 2017.

Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Levingston Lewis/U.S. Navy

Naval Aircrewman (Helicopter) 2nd Class Logan Parkinson, assigned to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 22, embarked aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Wasp (LHD 1), prepares a patient's family for evacuation during relief efforts in the wake of Hurricane Maria.

Photo by Paolo Bovo/U.S. Army

U.S. Army Paratroopers assigned to the Brigade Support Battalion, 173rd Airborne Brigade, move toward an objective after an airborne operation from an Air Force C-130 Hercules aircraft assigned to the 86th Air Wing at Juliet Drop Zone in Pordenone, Italy Sept. 21, 2017.

Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Levingston Lewis/U.S. Navy

Naval Aircrewman (Helicopter) 2nd Class Brandon Larnard, assigned to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 22, attached to the amphibious assault ship USS Wasp (LHD 1), and U.S. Marines assigned to Special Purpose Marine Air Ground Task Force- Southern Command (SP MAGTAF -SC), provide aid to an evacuee as part of first response efforts to Dominica in the wake of Hurricane Maria.

Photo by Sgt. Mickey Miller/U.S. Army National Guard

U.S. Soldiers in Air Assault class 307-17 rappel from a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter to complete Air Assault training in Kingwood, West Virginia.

Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Sean Galbreath /U.S. Navy

Naval Aircrewman (Helicopter) 1st Class Erick Sotelo of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 22 (HSC 22), attached to the amphibious assault ship USS Wasp (LHD 1), comforts an evacuee following the landfall of Hurricane Maria. Dominica residents are being evacuated from their island to the nearby islands of Martinique and Guadalupe.

Photo by Pvt. Alleea Oliver/U.S. Army

Pvt. Douglas Dodge, a Cameron, N.C., native and behavioral health specialist for the 602nd Area Support Medical Company, 261st Multifunctional Medical Battalion, 44th Medical Brigade, Fort Bragg, N.C., leads the 602nd ASMC off the landing craft, utility in Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, Sept. 23, 2017.

Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Krystina Coffey/U.S. Navy

Sailors heave line aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG 78) during a replenishment-at-sea with the fleet replenishment oiler USNS Leroy Grumman (T-AO 195) while underway in Mediterranean Sea, Sept. 18, 2017.

 

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