Soldiers from the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, guard an intersection while conducting a mission during exercise Lightning Forge 2015. LF 15 was an exercise conducted Feb. 23-March 6 on the islands of Oahu and big island Hawaii in conjunction with the Joint Pacific Multinational Readiness Capability staff March 6. The JPMRC is a Department of the Army initiative that consists of a mobile package of personnel and equipment that has the capability to travel to an exercise anywhere in the Pacific, integrate and evaluate within the regional exercise scenario and train units up to the size of a brigade combat team, while providing in-depth after action reviews and take-home packages to the units being evaluated. (Photo courtesy of Robert Aguilar, Kokua Support Services)