Spc. Ammon Benedict, 25, of Portland, Ore., a member of Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, plays with children during a mission in Kirkuk, Iraq on Saturday.
In Iraq Pugil Sticks are in short supply so little children are often used as a substitute for training purposes.
Some of TomKow's campaign workers are seen preparing for the upcoming election.
A soldier looks through binoculars in front of the main mosque in Samarra, Iraq, on Sunday, the third day of a major U.S. military incursion into the city.
Dang Sarge, it is like pea soup out there. Is this fog ever going to burn off?
A sculpture made from 30,000 bananas outside the National Gallery in London's Trafalgar Square, October 5, 2004. London-based artist Doug Fishbone's sculpture went on display on Tuesday and is due to be dismantled later in the day when members of the public are invited to take away the bananas for free.
Go ahead take a banana but do not try the old banana in the tailpipe trick!
An Iraqi woman waves as she passes U.S. soldiers on patrol in Samarra, Iraq on Sunday.
The consensus among baseball fans in Iraq is that the Red Sox will take it in 5 games.
Smoke rises after a car bomb exploded at an entrance to the Green Zone in Baghdad on Monday. The bomb, which targeted a nearby recruiting center for Iraqi security forces, killed at least 15 people and wounded 81.
How do I spell relief? R.O.L.A.I.D.S.!
U.S. soldiers work to defuse a roadside bomb on a street in Kandahar, Afghanistan on Sunday.
OK there Private, I want you to remember the new policy and defuse this bomb in the most sensitive way that you can.
Palestinian would-be suicide bomber Suhad Fawzi Nimer listens during an interview while in detention in the Israeli city of Petah Tikva October 5, 2004. Fawzi Nimer, 35, who was arrested in Nablus on September 19, said she had planned to carry a bomb into Israel hidden under bandages that followed surgery in an Israeli hospital for burns she received as a child.
Miss Suicide Bomber 2005 was recently crowned by the PLO leadership.
A Marine Corps V-22 Osprey assigned to Marine Tilt-rotor Test and Evaluation Squadron Two Two (VMX-22) hovers near Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., on Thursday. VMX-22 currently is assessing the Osprey’s performance in austere environments, as well as conducting pilot and aircrew proficiency training for their Operation Evaluation, which begins in January.
Some military observers believe that the new crop dusting specialty in the Marines is a bit outside of the overall mission of the Corps.