Sgt. 1st Class Joel Vallete, section signal chief with 1st Battalion, 8th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, leads nightly circuit training exercises and sparring sessions at a gymnasium at Mihail Kogalniceanu Air Base, Romania, March 8, 2017. Vallete has been boxing for 10 years and coaching since 2013, and despite being deployed 6,500 miles from home station Fort Carson, Colorado, for Operation Atlantic Resolve, he has brought the training forward and encouraged other service members stationed at the Romanian base to join in the training.

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