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U.S. Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Dominique Wright conducts a pipe-patching skills exchange with members of the Timor Leste army aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Kidd during Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training in Dili, Timor Leste, Feb. 25, 2014. CARAT is a series of annual bilateral exercises conducted with Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Timor Leste.

Soldiers climb Smugglers' Notch during a mountaineering exercise in Cambridge, Vt., Feb. 20, 2014.

A U.S. soldier provides security while others off load from a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter during an air assault mission as part of Operation Intrepid Centurion near Camp Buehring, Kuwait, Feb. 19, 2014.

Air Force Staff Sgt. Glen Brott, center, moves toward a breached personnel access hatch during a launch facility re-capture exercise on F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyo., Feb. 18, 2014. Brott is assigned to the 90th Security Forces Group Tactical Response Force.

U.S. Marines shield themselves from the blast of a breaching charge explosion during Exercise Cobra Gold 2014 in Ban Chan Krem, Thailand , Feb. 14, 2014.