Daniel Shea, a Naval Academy midshipman, sits atop the 21-foot-tall, greased Herndon Monument at the academy in Annapolis, Md., on Monday as he struggles to free a plebe hat and replace it with an upperclassman’s hat.
Midshipman Daniel Shea, a 20-year-old from Lake Grove, N.Y., sits atop the Herndon Monument at the academy in Annapolis, Md., on Monday, during a right of passage for freshmen.
The Naval Academy’s class of 2006 took one hour and 19 minutes to hoist Midshipman Daniel Shea up a greased granite obelisk and retrieve a hat glued to the top.
Capt. Mary Melfi gets a kiss from her dog after she returned from Operation Iraqi Freedom to Seymour Johnson Air Force Base on Tuesday.
Spc. Jennings, left, and Spc. Fillion, right, of the California Army National Guard stand watch at Fort Point beneath the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco on Tuesday.
Amanda Crockett, left, smiles as her husband, Staff Sgt. Richard Crockett, holds their son up in the air. Crockett’s unit returned from overseas early Tuesday evening to Twenty Nine Palms, Calif.
Soldiers cruise past the Al Najah movie theater as they patrol the streets of Baghdad, Iraq, on Tuesday.
Kurdish women greet soldiers from the 4th Infantry as the troops search for wanted former Saddam Hussein loyalists in Hawija, Iraq, on Tuesday.