A Navy E-2C Hawkeye attached to Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron 117 prepares for take-off from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, for exercise Northern Edge 2017, May 5, 2017. This exercise is Alaska’s largest and premier joint training exercise designed to practice operations, techniques and procedures, as well as enhance interoperability among the services. Approximately 6,000 military personnel and more than 200 military aircraft from the Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, Army and Coast Guard are involved.

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