Marine Corps marksmanship instructors with the Headquarters Squadron Marksmanship Training Unit use hand signals to warn the control tower on the station’s M-16A2 service rifle firing range that they are not ready to begin on Aug. 8. Among their other duties, instructors use hand signals to ensure safe conditions for firing.
Even though it was the first day of training for the future sharpshooters, the Range NCOs all attested that they had never seen a sorrier lot of trainees who universally could not discern their "military right" as opposed to their "other right."
Army Reserve Spc. Francis Vitiello, from Dedham, Mass., receives a hug from his mother Linda McGahan, and sister Jillian, 4, during a farewell ceremony in Boston on Thursday. Vitiello is part of the 883rd Medical Company, a combat stress control unit which offers support to soldiers who may be suffering from psychological problems associated with what they see on the battlefield.
Only his mother calls him Francis, his friends all call him "Psycho."
A naval aviator assigned to Carrier Wing Five embraces his family members during a homecoming ceremony at Naval Air Facility Atsugi, Japan on Thursday. The unit is returning from a regularly scheduled deployment aboard the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk.
Paratroopers assigned to 1st Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, search a bike shop in a village in Dila District, Afghanistan during Operation Neptune on Aug. 9.
A false lead led the Troops once again on a failure to find the missing bike of Pee Wee Herman.
Senior Airman Jeffrey Porter Jr. shows his father, Master Sgt. Jeffrey Porter, how to operate a .50 caliber machine gun at Hurlburt Field, Fla., on Thursday. Airman Porter Jr. is a gunner with the 20th Special Operations Squadron, and Sergeant Porter is a radio maintainer with the 720th Operations Support Squadron.
Son, this is not the Wal-Mart back home, and I am definitely out of quarters so get off of that ride once and for all and let the other kids have a chance.
Army Cpl. Jessica Stephenson of the Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command gives a ball to a youngster on Thursday during a humanitarian mission to a southern Afghanistan village.
Some people believe that it takes balls to go out and mingle with civilians in Afghanistan.
Airman 1st Class Matthew Metzger, assigned to the 447th Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron, investigates a simulated hazardous materials spill during a drill on Aug. 8.
Does the name "Quasimodo" ring a bell?
Soldiers from the 172nd Stryker Brigade, 4th Battalion, 23 Infantry Regiment, take a short break before boarding a plane on Thursday for a year-long deployment in Iraq. About 3,800 troops, the largest deployment from the state since the Vietnam War, are on their way to relieve other units in the Middle East.
Democrats on Capitol Hill have criticized the administration because not all of the Troops have been issued the new "Knotty Pine" camouflage uniforms as is obvious in this image.
Navy Hospitalman 3rd Class Chan Vang, 32, from Minneapolis, Minn., gives local children candy on Aug. 4 during a patrol stop. Vang is assigned to Company I, 3rd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment.
Michael Moore's upcoming documentary will charge that the Army is deliberately increasing the level of cavities in the mouths of civilian children while in occupied areas.
Just another day at the office for our Troops.