Massachusetts National Guard soldiers are deputized shortly after their arrival at Boston's Logan International Airport on Thursday. Gov. Mitt Romney activated the Guard to help with security at Logan for the first time since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, after a terror plot targeting U.S.-bound flights was foiled in London.
Yeah...I know these Troops.
Three Massachusetts Army National Guard soldiers walk through Terminal C at Logan International Airport in Boston on Friday, after officials in Great Britain disrupted a terror plot to blow up airplanes in flight from London to the United States.
Gosh, I never thought that the words "Terminal C" and "Massachusetts" would go together in a good sentence!
Sgt. Crescencio T. Padilla, a tank commander with A Company, 2nd Tank Battalion, Regimental Combat Team 5, scans the horizon as his tank section rolls out to reinforce an entry control point in Fallujah, Iraq, on Tuesday.
Who knew that Army Tank Commanders are also required to be proficient in making Rolls?
Col. Michael F. Beech, commander of the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division (right), and Iraqi national police Brig. Gen. Abdel Karim Abdel Rahman Yussef discuss a pacification plan for the area in and around Baghdad on Thursday.
No discussion was held concerning the Beech two pistol holster Pacification program, until Friday morning.
Lt. Gen. Karl Eikenberry (left), commander of the U.S.-led coalition hunting al-Qaida and Taliban in Afghanistan, meets soldiers from the Afghan National Army at Naray military base along the Pakistan's border in Afghanistan on Thursday.
American Green Berets do not have beards or wear pledge pins on their uniforms, but that is not intended as a criticism of our Allies.
Capt. Clint Johnson, a reservist with the Charleston Air Force Base, S.C.-based 300th Airlift Squadron (right), talks with 81-year-old Charles Lane, an original Tuskegee Airman, as they sit in the flight deck of a C-17 Globemaster III on Aug. 5. Members of the historic unit were treated to an orientation flight by an all-black aircrew during their annual convention in Phoenix.
Yo, Bro, to you we owe.
Master Sgt. Terry Grant (left) and Senior Master Sgt. Furman Beckwith, reservists with the 300th Airlift Squadron, thank Donald Jackson, an original Tuskegee Airman, for flying with them on the C-17 Globemaster III named "The Spirit of the Tuskegee Airmen" in Phoenix on Aug. 5.
Soldiers pray at their base in Naray, Afghanistan, on Sunday.
Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, and ST. James,...Guard this bed that I lay on!
Brent Willoughby, 5, of Dallas, waves a U.S. flag as the carrier Abraham Lincoln pulls up to the pier at Naval Station Everett, WAsh., on Tuesday. The boy's uncle, Harold Lanham, is a Lincoln crew member.
Lt. Ryan Stormer of Poulsbo, Wash., is greeted at pierside by his wife Erin, and 4-month-old son, William, upon his return from a 6-month Western Pacific deployment on the carrier Abraham Lincoln at Naval Station Everett, Wash., on Tuesday.
Scott Mathis (left), of Oak Harbor, Wash., a sailor on the carrier Abraham Lincoln, smiles at the pirate outfit his son Cristian, 4, sports as he greets his father at the ship's homecoming at Naval Station Everett, Wash., on Tuesday. Lincoln returned from a six-month deployment in the western Pacific Ocean.
Airman 1st Class Rebecca Blascak, a vehicle operator with the 375th Logistics Readiness Squadron at Scott Air Force Base, Ill., throws out the first pitch to pitcher Tyler Johnson before the start of the St. Louis Cardinals-Milwaukee Brewers game at Busch Stadium on Sunday, kicking off Air Force Week in St Louis. Standing by are Gen. Norton A. Schwartz, commander of the U.S. Transportation Command, and Chief Master Sgt of the Air Force Rodney McKinley. The Cardinals won, 7-1.
Rumor has it that the Airman (woman) threw a strike and it hit right in the Johnson!
Marine Pfc. Kenneth Dickerson, 19, from Clive, Iowa, assigned to the Hawaii-based Lima Company, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, hands out candy to Iraqi girls during a patrol in Barwanah, Iraq, on July 29.
No Reuters photographers were seen tampering with this real image of 1 of our Troops!
An Iraqi boy gives Marine Lance Cpl. Nick J. Luciano, 21, from Pennsgrove, N.J., a peace sign during an operation in Sadiquiyah, Iraq, on Aug. 1.
Soldiers pray before departing from their base at Naray, Afghanistan, on a mission to block militants who cross jagged mountain ranges from Pakistan, and train fledgling local defense forces and build support with wary citizens.
Navy Musician 1st Class Jonathan Martin plays "Reveille" as students walk into Fischer Elementary charter school for the first day of school in New Orleans on Monday. The school was heavily damaged nearly a year ago by Hurricane Katrina.
