# @thevigilantheroes on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DNdwzOlBwT-
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/66793537-thevigilantheroes-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-08-17T17:47:13.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Vigilant Heroes (@thevigilantheroes) — https://gondola.cc/thevigilantheroes

## Caption

Each week we’re bringing you a collection of our favorite images of our nation’s heroes: Follow thevigilantheroes for more -—> 
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—Cover: Sailors shift colors aboard the USS Nimitz…📸: P.O. 2nd Class Caylen McCutcheon
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An Osprey assigned to Marine Rotational Force – Darwin near Bradshaw Field Training Area, Australia..📸: Cpl. Angelina Sara
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A KC-135 on the flight line at Rickenbacker ANG Base, Columbus, Ohio…📸: Maj. Paul Stennett
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A U.S. Air Force pararescuemen exits an HC-130J Combat King II during a free-fall jump at Relámpago de los Andes at Palanquero Air Base, Colombia…📸: SSgt. William Rio Rosado
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An F/A-18F Super Hornet makes an arrested landing on the USS Abraham Lincoln…📸: MCS Seaman Apprentice Gage Thomas
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A South Korean Marine clears a room during urban terrain training in Pocheon, South Korea…📸: LCpl. Van Hoang
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SrA Jayden Artherton, 509th SFS military working dog handler, directs her dog, Denisz, at Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo…📸: SSgt. Joshua Hastings
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SSgt. Jonathan Schmertzler & Sgt. Brandon Hexum of the U.S. Army Parachute Team fly the American flag over the city of Chicago…📸: Sgt. 1st Class Brandon Guevara
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A Banyuwangi port operations pilot boat approaches the USS Frank Cable on arrival to Banyuwangi, Indonesia…📸: MCS 2nd Class Andrew McPeek
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National Guard soldiers conduct raining during sniper school at Camp Robinson in Little Rock, Ark….📸: Officer Candidate Jenna DOrazio
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Aviation Support Equipment Technician Airman Apprentice Aixa Cotamorles salutes the ensign while Aviation Ordnanceman Airman Alexander Adkins shifts colors on the USS Abraham Lincoln…📸: MCS Hannah Tross
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U.S. Army jungle instructors, Panama’s Servicio Nacional Aeronaval, Policia Nacional de Panamà, Servicio Nacional de Fronteras ruck to the combined jungle orientation course site in Aeronaval Base Cristóbal Colón, Panama…📸: TSgt. Kaylee Clark
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And—Carrier Strike Group 11…and Apaches over Hawaii…
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SSgt. Christopher Sylvester, a Senior Drill Instructor, speaks to his new platoon at Parris Island, S.C…📸: SSgt. Brendan Custer
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