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President Barack Obama looks at photos of Press Secretary Josh Earnest’s newborn baby boy, Walker, during a meeting with senior advisors in the Oval Office, Aug. 25, 2014. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

Engineers from the 317th Engineer Company shovel a load of gravel to create a tent pad at the Joliet Training Area in Elwood, Illinois, to prepare the site for a Warrior Training Exercise scheduled for May 2015. The company used this work as an innovative readiness training opportunity to maintain and improve its engineer skills. The Joliet Training Area is the largest local training area run by the 88th Readiness Support Center in the Army Reserve. The 317th Eng. Co. falls under the 416th Theater Engineer Command. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Michel Sauret)

U.S. Army Soldiers from 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, detonate a M58 Mine Clearing Line Charge during Decisive Action Rotation 14-09 at the National Training Center here, Aug. 10, 2014. Decisive action rotations are reflective of the complexities of potential adversaries our nation could face and include: guerrilla, insurgent, criminal, and near-peer conventional forces woven into one dynamic environment. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Daniel Hughes, 1st Combat Camera Squadron)

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Thomas Vamvakos (left), a tactical air control party specialist with the 169th Air Support Operations Squadron, and Latvian Cpl. Janis Gabranis (right), a TACP with the Latvian National Armed Forces, carry Senior Airman Lance A. Liggett to a medical evacuation point after a simulated roadside bomb explosion at Operation Northern Strike in Grayling Air Gunnery Range, Grayling, Mich., Aug. 14, 2014. Northern Strike was a three-week-long exercise led by the National Guard that demonstrated the combined power of joint and multinational air and ground forces. TACPs with the Air National Guards 169th ASOS from Peoria, Ill., and more than 5,000 other armed forces members from 12 states and two coalition nations participated in the combat training. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Lealan Buehrer/Released)