but it’s kinda “convenient” how bears suddenly decide to take a mandatory months-long nap through all the major family holidays.
— Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation (@OKWildlifeDept) November 2, 2023
Sometimes I wish I was a bear. . .
U.S. Army Soldiers with 9th Brigade Engineer Battalion, 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, supporting NATO’s enhanced Forward Presence Battle Group Poland (eFP Poland), joined other multinational troops from Albania, Canada, Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Spain, and the United Kingdom with eFP Latvia for exercise Verboom in Adazi, Latvia, Oct. 28, 2023. During exercise Verboom, U.S. engineers supported eFP Latvia by constructing an improvised door handle charge to demonstrate how to infiltrate a locked door. (U.S. Army photo by Capt. H Howey)
ATLANTIC OCEAN (Oct. 24, 2023) An F/A-18 Hornet attached to Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 106 lands aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73) in the Atlantic Ocean, Oct. 26, 2023. George Washington is underway in support of carrier qualifications. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman August Clawson)
A U.S. Marine with 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion, 3rd Marine Division jumps from a C-130 Hercules during a free-fall parachute jump operation at Ie Shima, Okinawa, Japan, on Oct. 26, 2023. Marines, Airmen, and Special Operations Soldiers practiced static-line and free-fall jumps to hone their abilities for airborne operations. The 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, the Marine Corps’ only continuously forward-deployed MEU, provides a flexible and lethal force ready to perform a wide range of military operations as the premier crisis response force in the Indo-Pacific region. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Bridgette Rodriguez
An HH-60W Jolly Green II assigned to the 34th Weapons Squadron takes off to participate in a combat search and rescue training mission at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., Oct. 23, 2023. One of the HH-60W’s primary missions is to conduct personnel recovery operations in hostile environments. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Zachary Rufus)
