U.S. Marine Corps Lt. Col. Brian Bruggeman, Senior Commandant of the Marine Corps Fellow at the Center for a New American Security, departs a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter during Exercise Bold Alligator at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, N.C., Nov. 5, 2014. Exercise Bold Alligator is a multi-national, synthetic naval amphibious exercise designed to train across the full range of amphibious capabilities in order to provide unique and contemporary solutions to global challenges. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Koby I. Saunders/Released)