Lt. Cmdr. Colin Day kisses his wife Melissa while their daughter Susannah rides on her father's shoulders as he and other F/A-18 pilots return to Lemoore Naval Air Station in Lemoore, Calif., on Wednesday. About 1000 Lemoore-based Navy personnel returned from a six-month deployment aboard the aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan.
Can you imagine a Day without kisses? Without our Troops watching over us?
Builder 2nd Class Darby McCuller assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion One, uses a bull float to smooth out concrete during a concrete placement for a pre-engineered building on Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan, on Monday.
Call me crazy, but, I question cement workers in the Navy. Go figure!
Sgt. Yurian D. Uribe, of White Plains, N.Y., fixes the clamp on the filter of an engine's intake during a daily inspection of the CH-53D Sea Stallion at Al Asad, Iraq, on June 28. Uribe is a collateral duty inspector with Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 463, Marine Aircraft Group 16 (Reinforced), 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing.
Kick starting a Helicopter is a wicked hard Marine job that nobody ever talks about.
Army Sgt Jason Manley and a comrade with the 506th Regimental Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, conduct a dismounted patrol through the neighborhood of Adhamiya, in east Baghdad, on June 26.
Dismounted Floral Patrollers is one of the more obscure MOS assignments in the Corps.
Marines guard a hallway at the Ramadi General Hospital in Ramadi, Iraq, on Wednesday. U.S. and Iraqi forces raided the hospital because it was suspected of being used as an insurgent base, the U.S. military said.
The new Marine Guard Duty equipment is completely ergonomically correct.
President George W. Bush reaches out to greet troops after delivering remarks at Fort Bragg, N.C., on Tuesday. Bush warned that setting a timetable for U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq would dishonor the deaths of soldiers there and give new strength to terrorists.
That ain't Clinton!
President George W. Bush grabs food from the cafeteria line with Army Cpl. Samantha Pettit, of Michigan, on Tuesday, shortly before dining with troops and other military personnel at Fort Bragg, N.C.
Hot food, fresh from your local Army Mess Hall Salad Bar.
Fallon Donaldson, and her father, play with an MK-19 40mm grenade launcher atop a Humvee during BayFest 2006, held at Marine Corps Base Hawaii, in Kaneohe, Hawaii, on Tuesday.
A Marine and his child and their toys. Only in America.
Marine Cpl. Luis Perez, of Lusby, Md., studies a map in Ramadi, Iraq, on Saturday.
What were you studying besides your navel last Saturday while this Troop was defending your life?
Marine Cpl. Anthony Rusciano, of New York, tells an Iraqi man where his home city is located, in Ramadi, Iraq, on Wednesday. U.S. troops are trying a new tactic against insurgents in rebellious Ramadi, replacing confrontation with courtesy in hopes of winning public trust and undercutting support for militants.
Somebody needs to teach this kid that it ain't polite to point. Especially at New Yorkers.
Vice President Dick Cheney greets sailors before the Pepsi 400 auto race in Daytona Beach, Fla., on Saturday. Cheney attended the pre-race drivers' meeting, where he received a standing ovation.
The former VP who was a no show at this event, has not gone on record as being critical of the race, but rumor has it that privately he was heard to say that "the sky is falling."
Loadmaster Senior Airman Josh Thompson of the 777 Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, does some research before loading cargo onto a C-130 at Al Sahrah, Iraq on Wednesday.
Only the Air Force would have a title such as "LoadMaster."
Army Sgt. Jason Weslek drops an 81mm mortar into the tube while firing towards the mountains as a show of force outside an American outpost at Deh Afghan, in the Zabul Province, southern Afghanistan, on Thursday. American forces are part of 10,000 coalition troops completing week two of Operation Mountain Thrust, aimed at rooting out Taliban fighters.
When the Army does fireworks, they do it like real men!
Kentucky National Guardsman Andrew Johns, of London, Ky., holds his daughter, Lacey, following a ceremony at Knox Central High School in Barbourville, Ky., on Thursday, for members of the 1st Battalion, 149th Infantry, deploying to Iraq.
Daddy, my monkey needs a hug too!
Cadet Ruben Ruiz Perez encourages a new basic cadet to get a move on after disembarking from a bus at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado on Thursday. Scores of incoming basic cadet trainees said goodbye to their loved ones as they began their first day at the academy.
Who would not be encouraged by such a warm welcome committee?
U.S. Air Force Academy cadet Adrian Haywas, of Oceanside, Calif., has his hair cut by Sandy Boefe at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., on Thursday.
Air Force haircuts are designed to toughen up future Fly Boys!
That Barber was a babe.
I thought of mentioning it.
Blonde, blue eyed (I suppose) blonde, beautiful, blonde, babe, beautiful barber.
Did I mention the blonde beautiful blue eyed babe part yet?
