A polar bear investigates the top of the nuclear attack submarine Connecticut during a Navy ice exercise near Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, on April 27.
Marine Cpl. Joey Navarro hugs his son, Andrew, as his daughter, Amanda, greets him as he arrives home from Iraq to Willow Grove Naval Air Station, Pa., on Monday.
Army Spc. Jason Sperry mans a checkpoint in Baghdad, Iraq, on Wednesday.
Army Bradley Fighting Vehicles patrol in the streets of Fallujah, Iraq, on Tuesday, hours after firefight left two U.S. soldiers and two unidentified attackers dead and nine other American troops injured.
Lt. Cmdr. Max Shuman of Virginia Beach, Va., hugs his wife Kendall as he is welcomed home at the Oceana Naval Air Station in Virginia Beach, Wednesday, May 28, 2003. Shuman is an F/A-18 fighter pilot from squadron VFA-106, off the nuclear powered aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt. His squadron is returning from duty in Operation Iraqi Freedom.
A U.S. soldier scans the area with binoculars from a tower at the Tuwaitha nuclear complex in the village of Mansia, in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, May 27, 2003.
US military police distribute 9mm Beretta handguns to Iraqi policemen in Baghdad. The new Iraqi police force were also issued police uniforms, intended to distinguish them from their predecessors under Saddam Hussein