Marine Cpl. Joseph M. Abasciano provides perimeter security during a vehicle-mounted Tactical Recovery of Aircraft Personnel training exercise in Djibouti, Africa, on April 26, 2005. Marines of the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) are deployed aboard the landing dock USS Ashland (LSD 48).
Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Peter Pace (left), U.S. Marine Corps, talks informally with cadets at the United States Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. on April 27, 2005. Pace visited West Point to share advice and lessons he learned while in combat.
U.S. Marines from the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) force reconnaissance platoon conduct small arms training with M4 Carbine service rifles on the flight deck of the USS Kearsarge (LHD 3) while at sea on April 29, 2005. The platoon constantly trains while aboard the ship to maintain its role as a force in readiness while deployed in the Central Command area of responsibility.
Firefighters assigned to the Marine Corps Air Station Miramar Fire Department use drip torches to start a controlled burn on a firebreak onboard the air station in Miramar, Calif., on April 30, 2005. Various Federal Fire Departments along with units from the San Diego Fire Department assisted in conducting the periodic controlled burn to prevent wild fires.
U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Brandon Patrick guides a hose pumping concrete for the foundation of a new school in Ban Nong Lom, Thailand, during Exercise Cobra Gold 05 on April 19, 2005. Patrick and his fellow engineers from the 9th Engineer Support Battalion are deployed to Thailand for the joint-combined exercise from Camp Hanson on Okinawa, Japan.
U.S. Marine Corps Engineers and U.S. Navy Seabees work alongside members of the Thai Army to raise a framework of rebar as they build a bridge in Ban Jingteenuean, Thailand, during Exercise Cobra Gold 05 on April 17, 2005. Marines from the 9th Engineer Support Battalion of Camp Hanson on Okinawa, Japan, and Seabees from Naval Construction Battalion 40, Port Hueneme Calif., are deployed to Thailand for the joint-combined exercise.
An Iraqi man speaks with 1st Lt. James Meeks, from Newton, Mass., in his home in Barra, Iraq, 35 miles north of Baghdad, on Tuesday. Soldiers raided several houses and made arrests as they searched for a leader of the insurgency with reported close ties to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
Spc. Awilda Rodriguez, left, inspects her new home at Fort Belvoir, Va., on Tuesday following a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Army’s new residential community there, Herryford Village. Also pictured are Rodriguez’s husband, Edgar, and children Jonathan, 12, Amber, 6, and Jazmine, 5.
Staff Sgt. Cody Williams, a member of the 455th Expeditionary Mission Support Squadron’s Joint Radio Relay team, repairs a JR2 during a dust storm at Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan. Williams, a ground radio communications craftsman by trade, is deployed from Royal Air Forces Lakenheath, England.
Cpl. David Segrest left, a radio operator, and Sgt. Tracey Sourbeck, a heavy equipment repairman with the Alabama Army National Guard’s Explosive Hazards and Awareness Team, 200th Engineer Battalion, teamed up to design a safer, better-equipped gun mount system for the turret of their unit’s Humvees. Their modifications allow for a second weapon, more firepower and better protection for Humvee gunners. The two are deployed to Camp Victory, Iraq. Sourbeck, 42, is a native of Enterprise, Ala. Segrest, 31, is from Jasper, Ala.
Capt. Jennifer Rael, a pediatrician with the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, performs a breathing test on an Iraqi child. Rael is currently deployed to Forward Operating Base St. Michael in Madmudiyah, Iraq.
Gosh, there has been such a shortage of Pediatricians in the 3rd Armored Cavalry in recent times.
Sailors assigned to the guided missile cruiser Normandy and the Cyclone-class coastal patrol ships Typhoon and Firebolt board a dhow in the Indian Ocean on Saturday. All three ships are currently deployed in the Gulf of Aden conducting maritime security operations in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.
Marines with Echo Company, Battalion Landing Team, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable), stand perimeter security on April 26 during a vehicle-mounted Tactical Recovery of Aircraft Personnel training exercise in Djibouti, Africa.
From left to right, an F-15 Eagle, F/A-22 Raptor and a P-51 Mustang fly over Virginia on April 27.
Just another day at the office for our Troops.
America!
Our Military who also are our sons, daughters, neighbors, friends, family, associates and others, are on the job.
