The past year saw San Diego-based Sailors and Marines fighting in Afghanistan, and in the skies over Iraq and Syria, as well as constantly training at Camp Pendleton, Coronado and throughout the world.
Here are 10 photos that show the range of the U.S. military’s operations and training in 2014.
The photos were selected from the Defense Departments’s 2014 Year in Photos, a special report featuring some of the best images captured by military photographers during the year