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Staff Sgt. Isaac Garcia, left, of San Antonio, and Sgt. 1st Class Felipe Azua, of Plainview, Texas, both with the 1st Cavalry Division, distribute humanitarian relief rations to residents on the outskirts of Sadr City, Iraq, on Tuesday. The mosh pit phenomenon has finally become popular in Iraq.
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Sgt. 1st Class Felipe Azua, a member of the 478th Civil Affairs Battalion, which is attached to the 1st Cavalry Division, distributes humanitarian relief to residents on the outskirts of Sadr City, Iraq, on Tuesday. The Kerry campaign criticized the military today because many of the distributed foods did not contain ingredients information in the Farsi language.
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An Iraqi woman carries children to a distribution point for coalition-supported humanitarian relief rations on Tuesday on the outskirts of Sadr City, a Baghdad slum.
This lucky civilian was able to pick up two children at a very reasonable price at the annual Sadr City rummage sale.
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Sgt. 1st Class Felipe Azua hands out humanitarian relief rations to residents of the Baghdad slum of Sadr City on Tuesday. Tickets for the upcoming Toby Keith concert went on sale and there was mayhem in the lines as tickets were sold on a first come first serve basis. |
A soldier inspects the scene of a car bombing in Baghdad on Tuesday that targeted Iraqi Environment Minister Miskhat Moumin. The minister, who was unharmed, was traveling in a convoy in the southern Baghdad neighborhood of Kadisea when the blast occurred.
The "H" bus never seems to show up on time in Baghdad.
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| Iraqi National Guardsmen and U.S. soldiers inspect the area of a car bombing in Baghdad on Tuesday that targeted Iraqi Environment Minister Miskhat Moumin. The Battalion's motor pool was a mess and the police detail was seriously behind in their mission today.
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A soldier walks along the fence line at Camp Delta at Guantanamo Naval Station, Cuba, on Monday. Preliminary hearings before a commission of five military officers began Tuesday for four suspected al-Qaida associates charged by the U.S. with war crimes. There are anticipated to soon be a few new vacancies at the military's plush accommodations in beautiful sub tropical Guantanamo. |
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Quartermaster 3rd Class Ryan Young, of Chicago, uses an Azimuth Circle to record a fix on the exact position of the aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy, currently underway in the Arabian Gulf, on Sunday. Kennedy and Carrier Air Wing Seventeen (CVW-17) are operating in the 5th Fleet area of responsibility, conducting missions in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. The new Game Boys are ordinarily not allowed to be used by personnel on the flight deck but every once in a while a few get away with violating the restriction.
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| Maintenance personnel assigned to the "Jolly Rogers" of Fighter Squadron One Zero Three (VF-103) complete final checks on two F-14 fighters prior to night flight operations aboard the aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy in the Arabian Gulf on Sunday. Some people might think that they should do flight operations during the day when it is easier to see.
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A pair of F-16 Fighting Falcons launch flares during a mission over Iraq on Wednesday. The aircraft, from the New Mexico Air National Guard, are assigned to the 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing at Balad Air Base, Iraq. According to the Kerry campaign the pilots of these jets are not serving together.
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Staff Sgt. Timothy Cox carries his military working dog, Ronny, to a C-130 Hercules aircraft on Sunday for an aeromedical evacuation to Germany. Ronny was diagnosed with pericardial effusion, an unnatural collection of fluid around his heart that began interfering with the heart's functioning. Cox and Ronny are assigned to the 380th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron at a forward-deployed location in Southwest Asia. As a reward for his good work Ronny the Army Dog gets to be carried around to all of his duty stations for a week.
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Staff Sgt. Brian Hennard marshalls an F-117 Stealth fighter during night operations at Kunsan Air Base, South Korea, on Saturday. Hennard is a crew chief deployed from the 49th Maintenance Squadron at Holloman Air Force Base, N.M. The first pre-season game of Stealth fighter football began finally this week.
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Capt. Matt Smith, left, a member of the Army’s World Class Athlete Program, competes in lightweight four-man rowing at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Greece. Isn't it interesting that the Army gets to do the rowing in the Olympics, and the Navy gets to watch it on television?
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Staff Sgt. David Wheeler, attached to Command Joint Task Force Phoenix in Kabul, Afghanistan, looks down onto a village from a security post during a checkpoint with the 1st Embedded Training Team and Afghan National Army in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, to monitor suspected smuggling routes. The Olympic Games just this year initiated the new Sim City Tournament in an area just outside of Athens. |
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Florida Army National Guard soldiers provide security for the Asadabad Provincial Reconstruction Team, Task Force Victory, and Task Force 325 during a Cooperative Medical mission in Afghanistan’s Kunar province on Wednesday. The soldiers provided medical care to both people and animals. "Sarge, I do not think that the word for "bootleg run" means exactly the same thing in Farsi, and they are going to mess up this next play."
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Just another day at the office for our Troops.