Military.com’s Top 10 Photos of the Year

An Air Force Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile launches throughout a take a look at at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, in a present of nuclear readiness as U.S. near-peer adversaries flexed their belongings this 12 months as effectively. (Airman 1st Class Ryan Quijas/U.S. Air Force picture)

An Air Station Kodiak C-130J Super Hercules airplane prepares to depart on a runway in Bethel, Alaska.

An Air Station Kodiak C-130J Super Hercules airplane prepares to depart on a runway in Bethel, Alaska. (Lt. Scott Kellerman/U.S. Coast Guard picture)

Ensign Lonni Williams meets his newborn child for the first time after completing a seven-month deployment aboard amphibious dock landing ship USS Pearl Harbor (LSD 52).

A sailor holds up his youngster for the first time after deploying on the USS Pearl Harbor for seven months. (Mass Communication Specialist third Class Melvin Fatimehin/U.S. Navy picture)

Senior Airman Jansen Esteves, 436th Aerial Port Squadron special handler, verifies shipment information for supplies bound for Ukraine during a foreign military sales mission at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware.

A U.S. airman inspects provides sure for Ukraine throughout Russia’s renewed invasion into the nation this 12 months. Since 2014, the United States has despatched roughly $22.1 billion in safety help to the nation, 87% of which has been dedicated since late February when Russia initiated its newest invasion. (Staff Sgt. Marco A. Gomez/U.S. Air Force picture)

Recruits spray a hose into a simulated fire during a firefighting training exercise inside the USS Chief Fire Fighter Trainer at Recruit Training Command.

Recruits spray a hose right into a simulated fireplace throughout a coaching train inside the Navy’s USS Chief Fire Fighter Trainer. (Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Christopher M. O’Grady/U.S. Navy picture)

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An M1A2 Abrams fires a 120mm spherical at a goal throughout the 2022 Sullivan Cup, a contest held at Fort Benning, Georgia, that places the finest tank crews throughout the nation — and even round the world — to the take a look at. (Spc. Joshua Taeckens/U.S. Army picture)

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Dylan Neylon, a 60mm mortar section leader (left); Lance Cpl. Isaiah Foshay, a 60mm mortar gunner; and Lance Cpl. Joseph Cucchira, a 60mm mortar assistant gunner with 3d Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, stand by for a fire mission during their Marine Corps Combat Readiness Evaluation at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, California.

A Marine 60mm mortar workforce stands by for a hearth mission underneath a starry California sky. (Lance Cpl. Cedar Barnes/U.S. Marine Corps picture)

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Thomas C. Kinser, military working dog handler, Provost Marshal Office, Security Battalion, gives his military working dog Faro a bath on Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia.

A Marine canine handler provides navy working canine Faro a shower. Handlers routinely groom their canine companions — together with bathing, blow-dryiny and brushing — to verify they’re clear and wholesome. (Lance Cpl. Kayla LaMar/U.S. Marine Corps picture)

Naval Special Warfare members perform a high-altitude low opening jump, during the 2022 Arctic Edge Exercise.

Naval Special Warfare members carry out a high-altitude low opening bounce in the Arctic. (Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Trey Hutcheson/U.S. Navy picture)

Aerial photography of Section 18 at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.

An aerial picture of Arlington National Cemetery, Section 18. (Elizabeth Fraser/U.S. Army picture)

— Drew F. Lawrence will be reached at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @df_lawrence.

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