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Gear in the Wild: Training with the Army’s new Sig Sauer M17

1st Lt. Evan Kreamer loads the M17 pistol. Twenty-two Soldiers from Task Force Carentan conducted pistol marksmanship training with the M17 pistol at Gallery 9, Yavoriv, Ukraine June 22.

U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Justin Navin

Watch U.S. Army soldiers train with the new M17 below:

Gear in the Wild: Coast Guard dive operations under the Artic ice

Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class Adam Harris, a member of a joint Coast Guard-Navy dive team deployed on the Coast Guard Cutter Healy, holds a Coast Guard ensign during a cold water ice dive off a Healy small boat in the Arctic, July 29, 2017. The joint dive team successfully completed the first shipboard Coast Guard dive operations in the Arctic in eleven years.

U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class David Bradbury

Watch the Coast Guard-Navy dive team go for a dip beneath the ice below:

Gear in the Wild:

U.S. Navy Diver 1st Class James Mostek, assigned to Mobile Diving and Salvage Company ONE-SIX, embarked aboard USNS Salvor (T-ARS 52), waits on a diving stage during a two-hour decompression stop after diving to 240 feet off the coast of Madang, Papua New Guinea, Dec. 7, 2018. The sailor is completing a Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) underwater recovery mission searching for personnel who went missing during WWII. DPAA conducts global search, recovery and laboratory operations to provide the fullest possible accounting for our missing personnel to their families and the nation.

U.S. Navy Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Tyler Thompson

See these recovery divers in action in the video below:

Gear in the Wild: There aren’t many problems I can’t solve with an angle grinder

Boatswain’s Mate 3rd Class Joshua Sanders, from Pinebluff., Ark., performs routine maintenance aboard the Harpers Ferry-class amphibious dock landing ship USS Harpers Ferry (LSD 49) in the Pacific Ocean, May 13, 2019. Sailors and Marines of the Boxer Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) and the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) are embarked on Harpers Ferry for a regularly-scheduled deployment.

(U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Danielle A. Baker)

Wanna know how to use an angle grinder? Check out the video below:

Gear in the Wild: You never know when you might need a good light source

Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technician 3rd Class Marcus Crone, assigned Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit (EODMU) 5, conducts tactical maneuvering techniques during a routine training evolution in Santa Rita, Guam, May 15, 2019. EODMU-5 is assigned to Commander, Navy Expeditionary Forces Command Pacific, the primary expeditionary task force responsible for the planning and execution of coastal riverine operations, explosive ordnance disposal, diving engineering and construction, and underwater construction in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations.

U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Kelsey L. Adams

Check out some night training below:

Gear in the Wild: Nothing like camping with your buddies (or working all night in an exercise)

U.S. Soldiers from Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 111th Infantry, 56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team conduct a night live-fire iteration of a Combined Arms Live Fire Exercise during Exercise Decisive Strike 2019 at the Training Support Centre, Krivolak, North Macedonia, June 11, 2019. Combined training enables allies and partners to respond more effectively to regional crises and meet their own national defense goals.

U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Frances Ariele Tejada

Check out the Army’s new up-gunned Strykers below!