Best pics of the week: Jan. 10, 2021

  • U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Michael Wick provides security during a Tactical Recovery of Aircraft and Personnel (TRAP) exercise at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., Dec. 16, 2020.
  • The aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) steams in the Indian Ocean, Jan. 6, 2020.
  • Army Spcs. Timothy Martin, left, and Shane Flores, middle, and Cpl. Dario Martinez prepare for a detonation during training in Boise, Idaho, Nov. 18, 2020.
  • Six Airmen assigned to the 31st Medical Group receive the first Moderna COVID-19 vaccines at Aviano Air Base, Italy, Jan. 8, 2021.
  • A U.S. Marine Corps F-35B Lightning II approaches a U.S. Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker for an in-air refueling mission supporting Operation Octave Quartz with armed over-watch in Africa, Jan. 1, 2020.
  • A U.S. Space Force trainee participates on the over-and-under bars obstacle during Basic Expeditionary Airman Skills Training at Joint Base San Antonio-Chapman Annex, Texas, Dec. 2, 2020.
  • A U.S. Marine patrols during a force-on-force exercise at Camp Gonsalves, Okinawa, Japan on Oct. 16, 2020.
  • The statue of the Lone Sailor stands on the snow-covered grounds of Recruit Training Command at Great Lakes, Ill., on Dec. 30, 2020.
  • A UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter, operated by soldiers with Alpha Company, 2-104th General Support Aviation Battalion, 28th Expeditionary Combat Aviation Brigade, flies over the 28th ECAB's area of operations in the Middle East.
  • U.S. sailors inspect a propeller on an E-2C Hawkeye on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) in the Pacific Ocean on Jan. 5, 2021.