A U.S. Sailor signals for a landing craft, air cushion to leave Onslow Beach during Bold Alligator (BA) 2012 at Camp Lejeune, N.C., Feb. 06, 2012.
BA is a joint and multinational amphibious assault exercise involving several foreign militaries and the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps, designed to execute brigade-sized amphibious assaults against low-to-medium land and maritime threats to improve amphibious core competencies. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Staff Sgt. Neill A. Sevelius/Released). Original public domain image from Flickr