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Members of the US Army's 11th Airborne Division and the Indian Army's 71st Mountain Brigade stand at parade rest during a rehearsal prior to the closing ceremony for bilateral training exercise Yudh Abhyas 2022 in Auli, India, on December 2, 2022. (US Army Photo by Christopher Dennis)

Policemen stand guard along a street in Peshawar, Pakistan, on February 1, 2023. (Farooq Naeem/AFP via Getty Images)

Seized marijuana bricks are incinerated in Guadalajara, Mexico, on March 23, 2018. (Ulises Ruiz/AFP via Getty Images)

A Ukrainian soldier with an assault rifle stands amid wreckage as debris lie in the garage at a trolleybus depot on January 27, 2023, in Bakhmut, Ukraine. (Yan Dobronosov/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)

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The US Navy aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson and the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Champlain transit the South China Sea on November 4, 2021. (US Navy photo by Tyler R. Fraser)

Hundreds of pounds of seized fentanyl and meth in Tijuana, Mexico, on October 18, 2022. (Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Sailors assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group 2 conduct pre-dive checks during recovery efforts of a high-altitude balloon in the Atlantic Ocean on February 7, 2023. (US Navy photo by Ryan Seelbach)

A Mexican army anti-cartel operation in Mexico City on January 5, 2023. (Gerardo Vieyra/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, President of Poland Andrzej Duda, and President Joe Biden at the B9 Summit in Poland on February 22, 2023. (NATO via Flickr)

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