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To: Kathy in Alaska
 
Drivers from the Army National Guard take several Montana Air National Guard crews into the Helena National Forest to help battle fires Tuesday.
 
The Arizona gas line crisis has motorists waiting in gas station lines all the way to Montana.
 
 
 
A military police vehicle drives through a sandstorm Tuesday while patrolling a highway to Basrah, Iraq. Regularly occurring summer sandstorms can reduce visibility to only a few meters, making patrolling difficult.
 
The new military aggresive camouflage system is met with mixed results. 
 
 
 
Army Maj. Dion Lyons, legal aid to the investigating officer, reads the manual for courts-martial for four Army reservists with 320 Military Police Battalion charged with punching and kicking several Iraqis while escorting them to a POW processing center near Umm Qasr, Iraq, in May.
 
Meanwhile, the Major neglected maintenance of the field barracks and was give 17 gigs in the most recent inspection.
 
 
 
 
Cadets march past the chapel Tuesday on their way to their dorms at the Air Force Academy in Colorado. The cadet corps will get a dressing down because of a weekend underage drinking incident that embarrassed an Air Force Academy still struggling to overcome a sexual assault scandal, the new superintendent said.
 
All of the Air Force cadets passed the rigorous 100 meter march (under 10 minutes) qualification in the recent physical readiness examination.
 
 
 
A U.S. soldier standing next to an Iraqi national flag is reflected in a puddle of water during the inauguration of Baghdad's first renovated fire station, August 27, 2003. Al Bayaa is the first of the city's 25 fire stations to be refurbished and renovated. Most of the fire stations of the Iraqi capital were destroyed during and after the war.
 
After intense photograph analysis, it was determined that the troop's chin strap was not regulation.
 
 
 
Former POW Jessica Lynch is shown on July, 22, 2003, during her homecoming in Elizabeth, W.Va. Lynch, the Iraq war's most recognized soldier, has been honorably discharged from the U.S. Army, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2003. Lynch, 20, of Palestine, W.Va., suffered multiple broken bones and other injuries when her 507th Maintenance Company was ambushed in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah on March 23. 
 
Single, veteran, blonde, blue, Purple Heart winner, seeks soulmate who is interested in quiet walks at sunrise, target shooting, map reading, and is not of the Islamic persuasion. 
 
 
 
A U.S. soldier pastes a wanted posters of Saddam Hussein on a wall in a district of Baghdad, August 27, 2003. Iraq.
 
Anonymous trooper enters an idea into  a "suggestion box"  on the best method of capturing Saddam.
 
 
 
U.S. House of Representatives' lead by Tom Davis, R-Va., second left, present a banner signed by residence of Lewisville, Tx., to Maj. Gen. Ray Odierno, commander of task force Iron Horse and the 4th Infantry Division, left, during their visit to a U.S. Army base in Tikrit.
 
In an effort to avoid military disenfranchisement in the coming elections, Troops are given an opportunity to use the new "1 ballot for all voters" method. A military arbitrator supervises the vote.
 
 
 
A San Bernardino County sheriff deputy signals to other deputies that bodies remain trapped inside a vehicle that plunged into flood waters in Twentynine Palms, Calif., on Tuesday. A flash flood swept the car off the road, killing two occupants and a rescuer who had saved a third passenger.
 
Just another day at the office!

295 posted on 08/27/2003 2:02:59 PM PDT by Radix (Tom Kow, watch the Tag Line,you are under my power, remember, no Burkas, no Burkas, no Burkas, no Bu)
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To: All
It's almost 300 everybody!
Get ready!
296 posted on 08/27/2003 2:06:58 PM PDT by minor49er (This is the PETA police! Hand over Tex and Mayor and no one gets hurt!)
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To: Radix
Huh?
328 posted on 08/27/2003 2:55:17 PM PDT by tomkow6 (Radix, watch the Tag Line,you are under my power, remember, no PANCAKES, no PANCAKES, no PANCAKES)
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