"Even with the adjusted timeline, this year’s Hanuman Guardian is the longest iteration of the exercise ever conducted," said a U.S. Army Pacific official.
Flying high in the Arctic, multinational exercises in the Indo-Pacom region and standing watch in the Gulf of Oman, here's the best photos from around the military.
“The photos showing giddy Marines swallowing scorpions and guzzling cobra blood are more reminiscent of a frat party gone wrong than a military drill."
Drinking snake blood at Exercise Cobra Gold, freestyle drill routines, the agreement that may result in all foreign troops leaving Afghanistan, and more of this week's best military photos.
Thailand and the United States on Tuesday hosted the opening ceremony for the annual Cobra Gold military exercise, the biggest activity of its type in the Asia-Pacific region with 29 nations taking part as participants or observers.
Troops from South Korea joined their Thai and U.S counterparts on Saturday in an amphibious vehicle landing drill as part of Southeast Asia’s largest multinational military exercise.