Retired Marine Staff Sgt. Gene Simes of Ganonda, N.Y., right, hugs Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., after his remarks Monday to the Department of Veterans Affairs CARES Commission at the VA Medical Center in Canandaigua, N.Y. Schumer gave a passionate plea to keep the 70-year-old Veterans Affairs hospital open.
Soldiers from the 720 Military Police Battalion attached to the 4th Infantry Division conduct a raid on a home Monday in Tikrit, Iraq. The soldiers arrested one man whose brother may be harboring Saddam Hussein as well as enabling resistance against the American occupation of Iraq.
A man captured by the 720 MP Battalion is led to a Humvee after a Monday raid in Tikrit.
Soldiers with the 720 MP Battalion secure rooms in a residence during a raid Monday in Tikrit.
Capt. Matthew Cunningham, left, from East Lansing, Mich., commander of Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 8th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division gives a tour Tuesday of a facility in Balad, Iraq, to Lt. Col. David Hubner, 43, from Gray, Tenn., with 1st Infantry Division’s 77th Armor Regiment. The 1st ID, scheduled to relieve the 4th ID units here, is scouting their future area of operations.
People from the 611th Civil Engineer Squadron spill team in Tatalina, Alaska, deploy a manta ray skimmer during a fuel spill exercise on the Takotna River. The simulated spill was part of an annual three-day event.
Airmen with the 31st Communications Squadron put up a tent in a simulated deployed location during a portion of the Silver Flag exercise at Ramstein Air Base, Germany. The exercise, which ended Sunday, provided more than 250 airmen from several specialties with realistic contingency-operations training.
Silver Flag exercise participants at Ramstein Air Base process through a contamination-control area after a simulated chemical attack during a portion of the exercise.
A soldier with the 4th Infantry Division stands behind two satellite dishes near a TV and radio retransmitting tower in Tikrit on Tuesday. The transmitter will carry the radio and television signal from the U.S.-backed media network in the Iraqi capital across the northern Salah Ad Din province of 1 million people.
Jerry Amstutz, of Leo, Ind., waves to Marines from the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit as they pass by on Onslow Beach at Camp Lejeune, N.C. Amstutz’s son, Cpl. Christopher Amstutz, is one of many Marines who returned from Iraq and Liberia on Tuesday.
Just another day at the office for our Troops
Note to Kathy, I am a bit busy, but later this week I will work on my posts, and my commentaries, just for you.
