Warrant Officer 1 Samuel Tauriac, 38, from Fairfield, Conn., disperses casual pay to Marines with Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment on Thursday. Combat Service Support Detachment 20 paid about 800 Marines over two days in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Pvt. David Harper, 21, from Pittsburgh, with 3rd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, does his laundry in Port-au-Prince on Thursday.
Pfc. Matt Van Fleet, 19, from Old Forge, Pa., with the 3rd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, shaves in Port-au-Prince on Thursday using a broken mirror.
A CH-53E Super Stallion from Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron-769, based at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., flies over Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan on Thursday.
Lance Cpl. Dominic Castro runs past a CH-53E Super Stallion from Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron-769 on Thursday as it prepares to depart from Bagram Air Base.
Lance Cpl. Dominic Castro, seen in the doorway, flies in a CH-53E Super Stallion from Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron-769 over Bagram Air Base on Thursday.
Gunnery Sgt. Mark Wheeldon covers the Engine Air Particle Separator on a CH-53E Super Stallion from Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron-769 at Bagram Air Base on Thursday.
Sgt. Sam Gildner, right, from Chanhassen, Minn., and Sgt. John Rivera, from Cottage Grove, Minn., both Reservists who were called up to active duty with Marine Wing Support Squadron-471, stand watch over crews of local workers who are building “B huts” that will be the new home for Marines moving to Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan.
Cpl. Williams, with the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable), relays movement information to control point personnel about vehicles and cargo being unloaded from the dock landing ship Wasp (LHD 1) on Saturday. The USS Wasp Expeditionary Strike Group, along with the 22nd MEU (SOC), is deployed to the U.S. Central Command theater of operations to support the war on terrorism.
Construction Electrician 2nd Class Juan Perez signals a concrete truck operator to stop the flow of concrete into foundation forms for a latrine facility at the Eugen Kvaternik Training Area in Slunj, Croatia, on March 24. Sailors assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalions 26 and 74, along with Air Force Civil Engineer personnel, are renovating two barracks and constructing a new latrine facility to support personnel living at Eugen Kvaternik.
A soldier receives medical assistance after being shot near the village of Zunchorah, Afghanistan, near the Pakistani border, on Thursday. U.S. troops are sweeping through the hardscrabble villages in this porous and mountainous border region, searching for weapons and information as part of the military’s effort to cut off hiding places for al-Qaida and Taliban fugitives.
A soldier is evacuated to a rescue helicopter after being shot near the village of Zunchorah, Afghanistan, on Thursday.
A soldier patrols a street in Mosul, Iraq, on Friday as Iraqi women and children look on.
Army Lt. Stephen Noel calls out to members of his convoy during a live-fire “react-to-ambush” course at Fort A.P. Hill, near Bowling Green, Va., on Thursday. Almost daily reports of soldiers in Iraq being killed while traveling in convoys as a result of makeshift bombs, rocket-propelled grenades and ambushes has prompted the Army to revisit the way it trains those involved in vehicle movement.
Elizabeth Menegon, sister of Army Special Forces reservist Maj. David Menegon, rushes toward her brother, who has just arrived, at the Old Greenwich train station in Greenwich, Conn., on Wednesday. He had been deployed to Iraq for 14 months.
Army Special Forces reservist David Menegon is greeted by his sister, Elizabeth, at the Old Greenwich train station in Greenwich, Conn., on Wednesday after returning from a 14-month deployment to Iraq.
Soldiers rest on Friday while inspecting a cave complex in Zunchora, Afghanistan, in which arms, ammunition and personal effects of the cave’s former inhabitants were found the day before.
A soldier inspects a cave complex in Zunchora, Afghanistan, near the Pakistani border, on Friday.
The Woodrow Wilson Bridge is opened to let the experimental High Speed Vessel-2 (HSV-2) Swift pass through as it sails along the Potomac River. The Swift will port in Old Town Alexandria, Va., where the crew will enjoy liberty and show the ship to the public and media.
Lance Cpl. Michael Jelensky, 20, of Anaheim Hills, Calif., left, and Cpl. Patrick Weaver, 22, of Moline, Ill., right, both with the Headquarters and Service Company, Battalion Task Force, 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines, bring a box containing 221,664,500 Iraqi Dinar, or about $148,000, into the Iraqi Civil Defense Corps (ICDC) headquarters building near Hit, Iraq, on Friday. The Marines paid 883 local members of the ICDC their March salaries.
Lt. Col. Nifee Mahmood, right, deputy commander of the Iraqi Civil Defense Corps battalion in the Hit, Iraq, area, looks on as 1st Lt. Doug McGowan, from New York City, a member of the Battalion Task Force, 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines, sorts the paperwork needed to pay ICDC members their March salaries on Friday.
Just another day at the office for our Troops.