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Airmen camp during Guerrier Nordique at Templeton Bay, Nunavut, Canada, March 12. 2023. The exercise focused on military tactics and lethality.

Idaho National Guardsmen take off and land UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters during night operations near Gowen Field in Boise, Idaho, March 15, 2023.

An Air National Guardsman assigned to the 146th Airlift Wing's Honor Guard team participates in an assumption of command ceremony at the Channel Islands Air National Guard Station, Port Hueneme, Calif., March 5, 2023.

Rhode Island Army National Guardsmen conduct UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter hoist qualification training in West Greenwich, R.I., March 1, 2023. The hoist is used to extract patients in areas that are too small for a helicopter to land.

California Army National Guardsmen assist local first responders with rescue operations during flooding in Monterey County, Calif., March 11, 2023.

Army Staff Sgt. Derek Yorek competes in a Spartan Race as a member of the All Guard Marathon Team in Jacksonville, Fla., Feb. 25-26, 2023. The Spartan Race is a series of obstacle courses of varying distances and difficulty.

An Oregon Army National Guardsman gives commands to two local role players seeking aid during checkpoint training as part of Exercise Tiger Lightning near Dhaka, Bangladesh, March 6, 2023. Tiger Lightning is a bilateral exercise sponsored by Indo-Pacific Command and hosted by Bangladesh to strengthen peacekeeping readiness, promote interoperability, and reinforce the partnership between the Bangladesh armed forces and the Oregon National Guard.

Rhode Island Army National Guard soldiers conduct aerial firefighting qualification training using a specialized bucket suspended from a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter in West Greenwich, R.I., March 2, 2023.

Oregon Army National Guardsmen secure a structure during cordon and search operations training as part of Tiger Lightning at the Bangladesh Institute of Peace Support Operation Training near Dhaka, Bangladesh, March 7, 2023. The bilateral exercise between the U.S. and Bangladesh is designed to strengthen peacekeeping readiness and promote interoperability.

Air Force pararescuemen are hoisted into a Pave Hawk helicopter during a training mission over the Lower Susitna Valley near Anchorage, Alaska, Feb. 7, 2023.

Idaho National Guardsmen participate in a simulated mass casualty exercise in Boise, Idaho, Feb. 4, 2023.

National Guardsmen free fall from an Air Force HC-130J Combat King II aircraft during training over the Lower Susitna Valley near Anchorage, Alaska, Feb. 7, 2023.

Idaho National Guardsmen participate in a simulated mass casualty exercise in Boise, Idaho, Feb. 4, 2023.

Army Maj. Kimberley Fisk observes Djiboutian nurses performing infant CPR on a mannequin during a knowledge exchange in Djibouti, Jan. 30, 2023.

Wisconsin Army National Guardsmen secure and prepare an M119 howitzer for sling-load operations during Northern Strike at Grayling Army Airfield, Mich., Jan. 24, 2023. The winter iteration of the exercise aims to build readiness through joint cold-weather training designed to meet objectives of the Defense Department's Arctic strategy.

California Army National Guardsman Pfc. Levi Walkup traverses a trail of boulders he placed across a stream while working to reroute part of the San Ysidro Creek as part of the state’s storm response in Montecito, Calif., Jan. 13, 2023. The area was hit with deadly mudflows in 2018.

A special tactics airman provides security while an Alaska Army National Guard Black Hawk helicopter lands behind him during an arctic training exercise at Camp Mad Bull, Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Jan. 10, 2023.

A young girl hugs a soldier during a deployment ceremony for more than 150 Delaware Army National Guardsmen in New Castle, Del., Jan. 13, 2023. The citizen soldiers are scheduled to deploy to southwest Asia for one year in support of U.S. Central Command.

California National Guard airmen help the Big Sur Fire Department with patient transport, Jan. 15, 2023. A six-person crew assigned to the 129th Rescue Wing flew to a hastily made helicopter landing zone to pick up a man injured in a fall, then took him to a San Luis Obispo hospital when roads became too dangerous to safely transport patients by ambulance.

Alaska Army National Guard Staff Sgt. Brad McKenzie, left, helps Spc. Matthew Tucker and a simulated casualty into a UH-60M Black Hawk helicopter during training at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Jan. 10, 2023.