Catherine Bookman, 72, is assisted by Colorado Army National Guard Sgt. Eric Rerucha (left) and Sgt. James Shouey (right) as they help her to a Humvee after her dialysis treatment in Denver, on Thursday. The National Guard is assisting people with transportation due to the snowstorm that blanketed the state.
First Lt. Ashkan Angha, Staff Sgt. Chris Depass and Sgt. Luke McCorkel of the Colorado National Guard, push an abandoned vehicle in Boulder, Colo., on Thursday. All the soldiers are with the 1st Battalion 157th Field Artillery.
Soldiers toast each other before eating Christmas lunch at a military base in the coalition headquarters in Bagram, Afghanistan.
Brig. Gen. Douglas Earhart hands over Christmas gifts to local Serb children at a school in the eastern Kosovo village of Partes, on Monday. Some 1,500 U.S troops are stationed in Kosovo as part of the NATO peacekeeping force.
Marines sort packages at the Postal Operations warehouse at Camp Taqaddum, Iraq, on Monday. During the holiday season, Marines at TQ Postal deal with approximately 30 tons of mail every day. The unit serves nearly 14,000 service members and civilian personnel at Camp Taqaddum and thousands more at military installations throughout the Anbar Province.
A 3rd Reconnaissance Marine assists the military working dog section by acting as an aggressor. The 15th MEU (Special Operations Capable) is deployed with I MEF (Forward) in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in the Anbar Province of Iraq.
Soldiers with Company B of the 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, under cover of a smoke grenade, hunt for a sniper that lightly wounded one of their compatriots in New Baghdad, an eastern neighborhood in the Iraqi capital, on Sunday.
Lance Cpl. Brian L. Gunton, a landing support specialist with Combat Logistics Regiment-15, 1st Marine Logistics Group (Forward), accepts a holiday stocking at Camp Taqaddum, Iraq, on Monday.
A girl watches soldiers from Company B, 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, stand guard at an exterior gate while other soldiers search a home for weapons and suspected insurgents in New Baghdad, on Tuesday.
Sgt. David Osbert from El Paso, Texas, (left) and Cpl. Erik Maltais from Boston, Mass., (back 3rd left) both members of the Marine Security Guard at the U.S. Embassy in Macedonia, look on as a girl hugs Santa Claus (Army Col. Thomas Wilson), at the SOS Children's Village, a facility for children without parents or without parental care, in Macedonia's capital Skopje, on Friday.
Soldiers from Company A, 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, patrol a street while a pair of ducks waddle by in Baghdad on Wednesday.
U.S. and South Korean soldiers escort a North Korean soldier (center) to repatriate him to North Korea at the truce village of Panmunjom in the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas on Wednesday. Two North Korean soldiers who drifted on a small boat in the East Sea and rescued by South Korean navy vessels on Dec. 9, were repatriated on Wednesday.
Joe Vicencio from Fort Sill has fun riding a snow tube at the Bricktown Ballpark in Oklahoma City, on Thursday.
President Gerald Ford as a naval officer in 1945. Ford died Tuesday. He was 93.
