Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei awards the Order of Fat'h to Amir Ali Hajizadeh in Tehran, Iran, on October 6, 2024. (Iranian Leader Press Office/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Ukrainian soldiers on an M2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicle on February 23, 2024, in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (Vitalii Nosach/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)
A Coast Guardsman prepares to land a drone on the deck of the Coast Guard cutter Tern following a 164-day deployment to the Western Pacific in Alameda, California, on July 2, 2019. (US Coast Guard photo by Matthew S. Masaschi)
The United Kingdom’s carrier strike group led by HMS Queen Elizabeth and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force led by Hyuga-class helicopter destroyer JS Ise conduct multiple carrier strike group operations with US Navy carrier strike groups led by flagships USS Ronald Reagan and USS Carl Vinson in the Philippine Sea on October 3, 2021. (DVIDS)
Marines detonate a timber charge during a demolition and explosive training exercise at the ETA-7 engineer demolition training range on Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, on January 11, 2018. (US Marine Corps photo by Pfc. Ginnie Lee)
A-10 software engineers work together in teams to verify functionality of organically developed operational flight program software on November 5, 2020, at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, before it is released to the warfighter. (US Air Force photo by Alex R. Lloyd)
The medium-displacement unmanned surface vessel Sea Hunter sits pierside at Naval Base San Diego during the Unmanned Surface Vessel Division One Establishment ceremony on May 13, 2022, in San Diego, California. (US Navy photo by Kevin C. Leitner)