Radix, Pancakes on Wednesdays! I love the group photo, and everybody has pancakes. LOL! Good job!
Marines with Task Force Tarawa take in surrendering Iraqis March 26 in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah.
Aviation Electronics Technican 2nd Class Marlon Enriquez of San Diego bundles up against a sandstorm and the accompanying 40-knot winds aboard the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk in the Arabian Sea March 26. Enriquez was helping cover up aircraft to prevent sand from blowing into critical parts. The sandstorm temporarily caused a suspension of flight operations.
Cpl. Patrick Rivera (left), 21, of Glendale, Calif., and 1st Sgt. Henry Prutch, 40, of Dubuque, Iowa, both with Battery M, 3rd Battalion, 11th Marines, hold an Iraqi civilian non-combatant who was trying to walk through their artillery position in central Iraq March 27. Marines escorted the civilian around the position and let him go after they searched him.
Soldiers with the 3rd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division kick in a door and search a residence near the town of Najaf, Iraq, March 27. The 3rd Infantry Division continues to push north into Iraq, but has been hampered by pro-Saddam militiamen carrying out ambushes and attacks using small arms and rocket-propelled grenades.
Marine Capt. Christopher Niemann, with the "Death Rattlers" of Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 323, flies his F/A-18 Hornet over Kuwait March 27.
A B-2 Spirit, returning from a mission in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, takes on fuel from a KC-135 Stratotanker over the Indian Ocean March 27.
Marines with Charlie Company, 1st Tank Battalion, 7th Marines guard a main supply road in central Iraq with their M-1A1 Abrams tank March 28.
A masked Marine with the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit plays cards at an undisclosed desert base in southern Iraq March 28.
Cmdr. Bill Devine, the 7th Marines chaplain, performs a Catholic service for Marines with Battery M, 3rd Battalion, 11th Marines March 29 in central Iraq.
Airman 1st Class Jay Charlebois, left, of Hillsdale, Mich., and Airman 1st Class Sven Berger of Battle Creek, Mich., both crew chiefs for the 332nd Expeditionary Air Maintenance Squadron, wave to an A-10 pilot taxiing to take-off on a mission over Iraq March 29.
As the sun sets, an A-10 fighter takes off toward Iraq during flight operations from an undisclosed air base in Southwest Asia March 29.
Marines from Battery M, 3rd Battalion, 11th Marines sing during a Protestant service in the battery's artillery position in central Iraq March 29.
Airman Wan Lee Wu of Brooklyn, N.Y. a plane captain for Sea Control Squadron 21, awaits launch of the S-3B Viking he is assigned to care for on March 30. The aircraft is being used for tanker duties, often over Iraq, for aircraft of Carrier Air Wing 5, embarked on the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk.
A crew chief with the 334th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron, based at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, N.C., completes a maintenance check on an F-15E Strike Eagle before a night mission March 30.
An F/A-18 Hornet with the "Death Rattlers" of Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 323 flies over the aircraft carrier Constellation as it prepares to land following a mission over Baghdad March 30.
Members of Delta Company, 3rd Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) go room to room, clearing the local Baath Party headquarters in Kifl, Iraq, March 30. The soldiers found documents, weapons and full grain bags hidden inside the walled compound.
Morning, darkwing! This should keep you until the regular coffee guys get here.
