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Video, presented during the 23 SEP 2014 Pentagon briefing, of a U.S. airstrike on a target in Syria.

The guided-missile cruiser USS Philippine Sea (CG 58) launches Tomahawk Land-Attack Missiles (TLAM) against ISIL targets. Philippine Sea is deployed as part of the USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) Carrier Strike Group supporting maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility. Also available in high definition. (U.S. Navy video by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Abe McNatt/ RELEASED)

The guided-missile cruiser USS Philippine Sea (CG 58) launches Tomahawk Land-Attack Missiles (TLAM) against ISIL targets. Philippine Sea is deployed as part of the USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) Carrier Strike Group supporting maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility. Also available in high definition. (U.S. Navy video by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Abe McNatt/RELEASED)

The guided-missile cruiser USS Philippine Sea (CG 58) launches Tomahawk Land-Attack Missiles (TLAM) against ISIL targets. Philippine Sea is deployed as part of the USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) Carrier Strike Group supporting maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility. Also available in high definition. (U.S. Navy video by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Abe McNatt/ RELEASED)

Video of an airstrike against the Jeribe West Modular Refinery in Syria.

Strike on a tank in Iraq Sept. 25, 2014.

Strike on a vehicle in Iraq Sept. 25, 2014.

Strike on a weapons storage facility, Al Hasakah Military Garrison in South Milibya, Syria, Sept. 26, 2014.

Strike against an ISIL-held building east of Al Hasakah, Syria, Sept. 29, 2014.

The video production has been created to explain the Marine Expeditionary Brigade (MEB). It outlines the organization for scalable contingency response to a combatant commander. Marines of the MEB provide and expeditionary force in readiness focused on assuring partners, responding to crisis, and projecting power from the sea while operating forward within the threat of potential adversaries. The music for this production is provided by contract from www.freeplaymusic.com. (U.S. Marine Corps Motion Imagery by MCIPAC Combat Camera Sgt. John C. Lamb)

U.S. Border Patrol, BORTAC and Office of Air Marine conduct fast rope air insertion and hoist extraction of simulated casualties near the U.S. / Mexico Border in Nogales Ariz. There is also a simulated car pursuit and arrests.

Hawaii Army and Air National Guardsmen were called to support Hawaii County Civil Defense authorities reacting to the Puna lava flow. They patrolled neighborhoods and blocked roads from curious onlookers from the lava flow advancing towards homes.

Worthington Cup Challenge featuring Sledgehammer soldiers from 3-1 Cavalry 2-69 Armor Battalion and 1-15 IN.

The main front of the Puna lava flow closest to the town of Pahoa has stalled, but remains active. Several breakouts have occurred on the rear and edge of the flow.

Afghanistan has suffered more than thirty years of violence and anarchy. The collapse of the brutal Taliban regime has offered the country a brighter future, but at a tremendous cost in human lives. Every single victim was somebody’s father or mother, brother or sister, husband or wife, son or daughter. Every one of them will be missed. And we will remember them.

Welcome Christmas performed by The Jazz Ambassadors of The United States Army Field Band.

NATOChannel meets some of the Ukrainian media fighting back against Russia’s information war, debunking false news and images used to disinform the world about the situation in Ukraine. Soundbites from Yevhen Fedchenko and Margo Gonta, co-founders of StopFake.org, Ukraine Today Editor Peter Dickinson, Dmytro Kuleba, Ambassador-at-Large, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and Brian Bonner, Chief Editor, Kyiv Post. This version includes voiceover and graphics.

Documentary depicting and highlighting the 100th Fighter Squadron during their 2014 deployment to Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan. The 100th FS is a unit of the Alabama Air National Guard 187th Fighter Wing located at Montgomery Air National Guard Base, Alabama. The 100th FS traces it's legacy to one of the Tuskegee Airman Squadrons of WWII.Includes sound bites from Lt. Col. Mike "Homie" McGinn, 100th EFS Director of Operations; 1st Lt. Jeffrey "Split" Witt, F-16 Wingman; 1st Lt. Bart "Lefty" Smith, F-16 Wingman; Maj. Ray "Hollywood" Fowler, F-16 Flight Lead; Lt. Col. Ryan "Flash" Barker, 100 EFS Commander; Maj. Rich "Sheriff" Peace, F-16 Flight Lead; Tech. Sgt. Tom "TC" Clark and Senior Airman John "JP" Northcutt, F-16 Crew Chiefs and Brig. Gen. Mark Kelly, 455th AEW Commander. Also available in high definition.

An in-depth look at Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) Exercise 2014. Twenty-two nations, 49 ships, six submarines, more than 200 aircraft and 25,000 personnel participated in RIMPAC, which is a multinational maritime exercise held biennially in and around the Hawaiian Islands and Southern California. RIMPAC 2014 is the 24th exercise in the series that began in 1971. (U.S. Navy Video by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Corey T. Jones/Released)

When a cook aboard USS Mississippi set foot on the shores of Naval Shipyard Pensacola in 1914, he had no idea that the photographs he took on his off-duty time would lay the groundwork for 100 years of Navy photography. Although the photographer rating had yet to exist in the Navy, Walter Leroy Richardson was doing the job, documenting aerial and ship maneuvers, crew movement and daily operations. Recognizing the value and necessity of documenting and creating a visual history of its activities, the Navy asked him to do it officially.

An attack that seems to come from nowhere and advances like a silent predator creeping on its prey, through the ranks of troops and civilians alike – that is the fear a biological attack or emerging disease event brings: an unseen enemy striking without warning. Researchers from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s Chemical and Biological Technologies Department are working with other U.S. government, state, and local agencies to be able to make these unseen enemies visible by strengthening the Nation’s biosurveillance capabilities to provide early warning notification to warfighters and first responders.

The pilot of a single engine Cirrus SR-22 aircraft that ran out of fuel is safe after ditching his aircraft 253 miles northeast of Maui, Hawaii Sunday. At approximately 4:44 p.m. the pilot was able to deploy the aircraft’s airframe parachute system and safely exit the aircraft into a life raft. U.S. Coast Guard video

Service members participate in Read Across America 2015 by reading "Oh, the Places You'll Go" by Dr. Seuss.

A multimedia piece about Navy and Marine Corps combat cameramen practicing combat tactics during Fleet Combat Camera Pacific’s Winter Quick Shot 2015 joint field training exercise in the Angeles National Forest near Azusa, Calif., Feb. 13 to Feb. 27, 2015. Quick Shot is a semi-annual exercise that improves combat camera Service members' abilities to operate in a tactical environment. (U.S. Navy video by Fleet Combat Camera Pacific/RELEASED)

Maj Joseph Barnard, Maj David Depiazza, and SMSgt Brendan Deligio from the 38th Rescue Squadron at Moody Air Force Base, execute a High Altitude - Low Opening (HALO) jump from an HH-60 Pave Hawk

Soldiers from the 65th Field Artillery Brigade conduct annual field training at Dugway Proving Grounds, Utah.

Winning your Wings - Air Force Reserve History.

USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) Amphibious Ready Group Sustainment at Sea video.

Coast Guard search and rescue crews from Station Gloucester, Air Station Cape Cod and the Coast Guard Cutter Ocracoke rescued nine crewmembers from the Canadian tall ship Liana's Ransom 58 miles east of Gloucester, Monday. Watchstanders at the Sector Boston Command Center received notification at 12:35 a.m. that the vessel's engines were disabled and its sails were wrapped around the mast. As the weather deteriorated, and seas reached nearly 10 feet, Sector Boston launched two 47-foot motor lifeboat crews from Station Gloucester to tow the vessel back to Gloucester. Once on scene, the boat crews connected the tow, but the rough sea conditions caused the tow line to break. U.S. Coast Guard Video

Major Dustin Brown explains the 510th Fighter Squadron's mission during the Amari flying training deployment in Estonia.

Reunions between old friends are typically full of joy, laughter and shared memories -- especially when more than 50 years have passed between meetings. a For World War II veteran, Lt. Col. Alston “Al” Daniels, the reunion with the aircraft he piloted for nearly 2,000 hours, was no different. On April 7, 2015, Daniels gleefully walked up the steps to a Douglas C-47D Skytrain cockpit for the first time since 1962. Checkout the retired colonel reliving the memories.

note: Video from 0:15 to 1:17 is courtesy of the National Geographic Society. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) repatriated dozens of illegally smuggled ancient artifacts to the government of Egypt, including a Greco-Roman style Egyptian sarcophagus, at a ceremony Wednesday at the National Geographic Society in Washington. The return of these ancient artifacts was made possible by “Operation Mummy’s Curse,” an ongoing five-year investigation by ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) targeting an international criminal network that illegally smuggled and imported more than 7,000 cultural items from around the world.

PATUXENT RIVER, Md. (NNS) -- The X-47B successfully conducted the first ever Autonomous Aerial Refueling (AAR) of an unmanned aircraft April 22, completing the final test objective under the Navy's Unmanned Combat Air System demonstration program. While flying off the coast of Maryland and Virginia, the X-47B connected to an Omega K-707 tanker aircraft and received over 4,000 pounds of fuel using the Navy's probe-and-drogue method. "What we accomplished today demonstrates a significant, groundbreaking step forward for the Navy," said Capt. Beau Duarte, the Navy's Unmanned Carrier Aviation program manager. "The ability to autonomously transfer and receive fuel in flight will increase the range and flexibility of future unmanned aircraft platforms, ultimately extending carrier power projection." During the test, the X-47B exchanged refueling messages with a government-designed Refueling Interface System (RIS) aboard the tanker. The aircraft autonomously maneuvered its fixed refueling probe into the tanker's drogue, also known as the basket, the same way a Navy pilot would refuel a manned aircraft. "In manned platforms, aerial refueling is a challenging maneuver because of the precision required by the pilot to engage the basket," Duarte said. "Adding an autonomous functionality creates another layer of complexity." This testing helps solidify the concept that future unmanned aircraft can perform standard missions like aerial refueling and operate seamlessly with manned aircraft as part of the Carrier Air Wing, he said. "This segment of the X-47B demonstration program allowed us to further mature AAR technologies and evaluate the government tanker RIS," said Barbara Weathers, X-47B deputy program manager. "We used similar command-control and navigation processes previously demonstrated during the X-47B landings aboard the aircraft carrier." Over the last few years, the Navy accomplished several significant firsts with the X-47B that showcased the Navy's commitment to unmanned carrier aviation. With the completion of this program, the service continues to develop its future unmanned carrier-based platform, known as UCLASS.

Follow a piece of history as it travels to Holloman Air Force Base where Airmen volunteer their services to restore this object for the New Mexico Museum of Space History.

GET INSIDE M1A2 Abrams Main Battle Tanks with Task Force 2-7 Infantry as they demonstrate combat maneuvers and the power of the M1A2 Abrams for Estonian dignitaries during their historic live-fire training exercise at the Central Training Area in Tapa, Estonia.

Coalition airstrike on a Daesh building near Sinjar, Iraq.

B-Roll Package: At Naval Station Mayport, Fla., April 27-May 2, 2015 the Army National Guard's 20th Special Forces Group (Airborne) Combat Divers were working with the Coast Guard to perform dive re-qualification, enhance maritime proficiency and expand skill sets for both service components. (National Guard photo by SSG Adam Fischman) Interview: CWO2 Nicholas M. Pavlik Commanding Officer USCG Station Mayport

It is not uncommon to find National Guardsmen working alongside law enforcement at major sporting events. However, Kentucky National Guardsmen have taken the role of serving their citizens to new heights... literally!

Coalition airstrike on a Daesh staging area near Huwayjah, Iraq.

Coalition airstrike on a Daesh fighting position near Sinjar, Iraq.

First day of the Anti Submarine Warfare (ASW) Exercise Dynamic Mongoose in Norway. Dynamic Mongoose 2015 (DMON15) is taking place in the North Sea from the 4th to the 14th of May. German Submarine U33 is conducting several ASW exercises.

Army Science and Technology, Global Innovation Smaller, Fully Capable, Versatile, Affordable Technology Serving the Soldier and the Squad Army Advantage, Future Concepts, Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Army Research and Technology.

The American 2nd Cavalry Regiment, along with their Romanian allies drive Strikers through Romania, stopping to talk with local people and perform ceremonies in the towns of Sinaia and Brasov. The American 2nd Cavalry Regiment, along with their Romanian allies take 100 Strikers through the roads of Romania

A Marine dog handler with 1st Marine Special Operations Support Battalion, and his Multi-Purpose Canine (MPC) participate in a Tactical Skills Package put on for enablers aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, May 4-15. The package allowed the dog team to show and practice amphibious skills as well as prepare the individuals for deployment with the MSOB.

The 14th Asia Security Summit was held in Singapore over the weekend. Officials from around the region and elsewhere gathered to discuss key issues. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter attended and spoke to a room of delegates about topics from the Trans-Pacific-Partnership Agreement to increased activity in the South China Sea. Includes sound bites from Lee Hsien Loong, Singapore Prime Minister and Dr. Ashton Carter, Secretary of Defense. Also available in high definition.

Package about the efforts of Marines during operations in Iraq.

On June 2, 2015, President Barack Obama awarded the Medal of Honor to Army Sergeant William Shemin and to Army Private Henry Johnson for conspicuous gallantry during World War I. Sergeant William Shemin will receive the Medal of Honor posthumously for his actions while serving as a member of Company G, 2nd Battalion, 47th Infantry Regiment, 4th Division, American Expeditionary Forces. Sergeant Shemin distinguished himself during combat operations in the vicinity of the Vesle River, Bazoches, France, on August 7-9, 1918.

The first of NATO’s five unmanned air vehicles rolled off the factory line in San Diego on Thursday, 4 June 2015. The Global Hawk Block 40 is part of the Alliance Ground Surveillance Program (AGS). The NATO-owned and -operated AGS core capability will enable the Alliance to perform persistent surveillance over wide areas from high-altitude long-endurance aircraft in any weather or light condition . The system will give commanders a comprehensive picture of the situation on the ground. The AGS system is being acquired by 15 Allies (Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Norway, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and the United States). AGS is scheduled to reach initial operational capability by the end of 2017. The air vehicles will be controlled from the main operating centre in Sigonella, Italy.

A trailer for the upcoming 2015 DoD Warrior Games at Quantico VA. Also available in high definition.

Video feature about Ellsworth Air Force Base that gives a brief explanation on the base and its mission.