A Fort Stewart Forestry employee removes a bag of aerial ignition devices from a helicopter one chilly afternoon in January 2016 during a controlled burn of 2,000 acres on the installation. This was a cool assignment. Staffers let me fly in the helicopter to take aerial shots of the burns, but I liked this one the best: It has an apocalyptic feel to it. (Dash Coleman/Savannah Morning News)
A police officer grabs a rose to add to the Fallen Officer Memorial in front of Savannah-Chatham police headquarters May 11, 2016, during a ceremony honoring law enforcement officers who died in the line of duty. (Dash Coleman/Savannah Morning News)
Two M1A2 Abrams battle tanks, covered in foliage and camouflage netting, lead Humvees along a Fort Stewart training range Feb. 15, 2017, during a combined arms live-fire exercise conducted by the 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team. (Dash Coleman/Savannah Morning News)
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Jon Tracy, hugs his 4-year-old son, Everett on Feb. 8, 2017, at Hunter Army Airfield after a 9-month deployment in Afghanistan. Tracy, a soldier in the 3rd Squadron, 17th Cavalry Regiment of the 3rd Infantry Division's 3rd Combat Aviation Brigade, was one of 16 local soldiers returning to the U.S. (Dash Coleman/Savannah Morning News)
Skidaway Institute of Oceanography biologist Marc Frischer, right, and Marietta science teacher Westby Slade look at a beaker full of plankton to decide which organism they will examine under a microscope aboard the Research Vessel Savannah's wet lab on June 17, 2016. The plankton came from a water sample collected at Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary off the Georgia Coast during the penultimate day of the 2016 Rivers to Reef program, which puts grade-school science teachers up close and personal with the scientific process on a weeklong trip from Atlanta to the coast. (Dash Coleman/Savannah Morning News)
An M1A2 Abrams battle tank fires a 120-mm round downrange Feb. 15, 2017, at Fort Stewart during a combined arms live-fire exercise conducted by the 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team. (Dash Coleman/Savannah Morning News)
Army firefighters spray water at a smoldering Humvee one August morning at Hunter Army Airfield during Stewart Guardian 16. The training operation simulated how the Army would respond to a transport plane loaded with ammunition crashing on the installation, killing the crew in the impact and subsequent fires. The drill tested multiple units from Fort Stewart/Hunter Army Airfield, including firefighters, EMS, explosive ordnance teams, investigators and public affairs. (Dash Coleman/Savannah Morning News)
Korean War veteran Frank Grady Jr. boards an Honor Flight Savannah bus headed to Washington, D.C., in October 2015.
A man in a cowboy hat uses his cellphone to take a photo atop Max Patch Bald in October 2015. The mountaintop, which is on the Appalachian Trail, is a destination spot for Western North Carolina's residents and visitors. (Dashiell Coleman photo)
Mullins the yellow Lab, a service dog in training, nuzzles up to a Savannah firefighter in July 2015 while trying to get used to loud noises and first responders for emergency situations. (Dash Coleman/Savannah Morning News)
Savannah-Chatham police Sgts. Aaron Washington, left, and Hiram Rivera demonstrate self-defense techniques in June 2015 at Savannah State University during one of two girls' weeks of the police department's youth summer camp. (Dash Coleman/Savannah Morning News)
Airmen from the Georgia Air National Guard prepare the last C-130H2 Hercules used by the Savannah-based 165th Airlift Wing to fly into retirement one morning in June 2016. (Dash Coleman/Savannah Morning News)
Spc. Cedric Thomas of the Georgia Army National Guard’s 78th Aviation Troop Command crawls under barbed wire March 8, 2017, on Fort Stewart’s obstacle course during the the state round of the Best Warrior competition. (Dash Coleman/Savannah Morning News)
World War II veteran Paul Grassey, who flew B-24 bombers for the Mighty Eighth Air Force, sings "God Bless America" in July 2016 in front of the Chatham County Courthouse after local community leaders and elected officials read the Declaration of Independence. (Dash Coleman/Savannah Morning News)
Excited kids meet a baby chicken in April 2015 during a pre-Easter event at Savannah's Oglethorpe Mall that was sponsored by the University of Georgia. (Dash Coleman/Savannah Morning News)
A mounted patrol officer dumps cold water on Assistant Savannah-Chatham Police Chief Terry Enoch during the height of the ALS Association's "ice bucket challenge" in August 2014. (Dash Coleman/Savannah Morning News)
Nyasia Lewis, 6, kneels to add a sign to a roadside memorial for 29-year-old Charles Smith, who was shot and killed by Savannah-Chatham police after breaking free from a patrol car in September 2014. (Dash Coleman/Savannah Morning News)
A baby alligator eyeballs the edge of Woody Pond in Harris Neck National Wildlife Refuge in April 2014 after waking up from its nap on a log. (Dashiell Coleman photo)