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NA - A U.S. Marine with Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defense Element, 2nd Marine Logistics Group, checks for hazardous materials during Exercise Archipelago Endeavor 26 in Berga, Sweden, Aug. 31, 2026. Combined training between U.S. Marines and the Swedish Armed Forces was focused on CBRN defense, medical crisis response, and amphibious operations. Archipelago Endeavor 26 strengthens bilateral interoperability, littoral defense capabilities, and tactical cooperation while demonstrating the readiness of U.S. and Swedish forces to operate together in the Baltic Sea region. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Garrett Gillespie)

NA - Norwegian Home Guard soldiers with 3rd Platoon, District 11, post security while a Strikemaster mobile anti-ship missile system and a Norwegian Army National Manoeuvre Air Defence System are emplaced in Jan Mayen, Norway, Aug. 30, 2026. The integrated security and fires emplacement, conducted during Operation Atlantic City 26, tested the combined force's ability to rapidly deploy and protect multi-domain assets, ensuring NATO can establish layered defense in contested Arctic terrain. Atlantic City 26 is a Norwegian-led trilateral readiness initiative with the United Kingdom and United States designed to develop and demonstrate expeditionary advanced base capabilities and validate combined fires, maritime domain awareness, and sea denial to reinforce the security and stability of the High North. Jan Mayen is sovereign Norwegian territory in an isolated part of the Norwegian Sea, approximately 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) from mainland Norway. At the same time, the island occupies an important geostrategic position north of the Greenland-Iceland-U.K. gap, an area of water strategically significant to the defense of the U.S. homeland and northern Europe. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Noah Masog)