Surveillance snapshot: Illness and injury burdens, reserve component, U.S. Armed Forces, 2020
U.S. Army Col. Kris Marshall, co-director of Exercise Agile Spirit 2021, salutes during a closing ceremony August 6, 2021 at Orpholo Training Area, Georgia. Agile Spirit 21 promotes regional stability and security, while increasing readiness, strengthening partner capabilities and fostering trust. Agile Spirit provides vital opportunities, not only for multiple U.S. services to work together, but also for integrated, total force training with U.S. Reserve and National Guard units and our partner nations’ militaries to ensure interoperability. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Cpl. Rydell Tomas)
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