HH-60G Pave Hawks perform mid-air refueling prior to beginning
Hurricane Rita search-and-rescue operations in east Texas on Sunday
HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopters en route to Hurricane Rita search-and-rescue operations
in east Texas on Sunday
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Texas National Guard units arrive in Beaumont, Texas on, Saturday. The 500 guardsmen and
women have set up a base of operations at Ford Park, a state fairground outside of town,
from which they planned to help in hurricane relief efforts.
James J. Lee / Army Times
A Texas National Guard convoy arrives in Beaumont, Texas, on Sunday to help
in Hurricane Rita
relief efforts.
br> Peter Piazza / The (Lafayette, La.) Daily AdvertiserLouisiana National Guard soldiers patrol past the flooded Our Lady of Lourdes
Catholic Church in Erath, La.
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Alan Maloney, a Coast Guard flight mechanic, looks out over the town of
Oak Grove, La, on Saturday, in the aftermath of Hurricane Rita
Mark Farmer / AP Photo
Caught at the moment of main motor ignition, a FGM-148B Javelin self-guided missile streaks
towards its target during live-fire maneuvers at the Donnelley Training Area near Delta
Junction, Alaska, on Thursday. Pfc. Sean Robinson of Bravo Company, 1st Battalion (Airborne),
501st Infantry Regiment, Fort Richardson, Alaska, fired the missile
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Iraqi children take candy from Capt. Dene Leonard of D Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th
Infantry Regiment during a patrol on a highway in Tikrit, Iraq. on Monday.
A U.S. soldier evacuates an injured Iraqi soldier from the scene of a suicide bombing in
Baghdad on Saturday. The suicide car bomber drove in at high speed and detonated
his vehicle near an Iraqi army checkpoint, killing three soldiers and an Iraqi civilian.
