TIME’s photo editors bring you the best pictures from the front lines from around the world, and the home front.
Military Photos: A Week Inside the Armed Forces, July 14-22
Carlos Jasso / Reuters
Panama's Special Force Border Police officer reacts as a helicopter takes off during a patrol in the area of Bonga, some 12 miles from the Panama-Colombia border in the region of Kuna Yala July 20, 2012.