[Kathy in Alaska]

WORKING WOMAN — Air Force Senior Airman Kathleen Michael, a radar maintenance technician with the 728th Air Control Squadron, deployed from Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., takes a break from building a Control Reporting Center at Baghdad Air Base, Iraq. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Cherie A. Thurlby

STANDING WATCH — A U.S. Marine with 2nd Battalion, 6th Marines, stands perimeter watch around an explosive ordnance disposal team in Al Hay, Iraq. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Mauricio Campino

Gotta go to a lunch meeting. Yuck!! Don't they understand it's time to post pictures of our troops? Back in a bit.

[Kathy in Alaska]

THE FUTURE OF IRAQ — Excited Iraqi school children stare curiously at soldiers of the 1st Platoon of Company B, 1st Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), as they bring school supplies to recently reopened local schools in Mosul. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Michael Bracken

JAVELIN — Marines of 2nd Battalion, 6th Marines, fire a Javelin anti-tank missile at Blair Air Field, Iraq. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Mauricio Campino