A view at the beginning point of the Trans Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS) on May 9, 2025, at Pump Station 1 in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. (Lance King via Getty Images)
An Air Force Global Strike Command unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile launches during an operation test on February 23, 2021, at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. (US Space Force)
A worker inspects the form of the shaped steel billets following the press stage in the manufacturing process of 155mm caliber shells at the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant in Pennsylvania on April 16, 2024. (Getty Images)
An unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) operator recovers a MK 18 MOD 2 UUV after an operational test off the coast of Bahrain on October 20, 2015. (US Navy Photo by Jonah Stepanik)
Paratroopers assigned to the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division conduct a systems check on their VROD/VMAX electronic warfare equipment before conducting a tactical exercise in El Paso, Texas, on November 20, 2018. (US Army Photo)
An UH-60 Blackhawk flies over the runway during a series of 5G avionics tests on March 2,
2022, at Hill Air Force Base, Utah. (US Air Force photo by Cynthia Griggs)
A boy stands by the statue of Brigadier General Gouverneur K. Warren atop Little Round Top at the Gettysburg battlefield on July 3, 2005, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)