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Shari Carlton, right, a member of the World Master Chefs Society, instructs a Navy culinary specialist on preparing dough in the ship’s bakery aboard the carrier Abraham Lincoln on Saturday. Join the Navy and make some dough, has not thrilled test audiences as a new recruiting slogan!
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The attack submarine Parche returns to port for the final time at the Marginal pier at Naval Base Kitsap, Wash. Parche, the last active Sturgeon-class submarine, is due to be decommissioned on Oct. 19, after serving the fleet since 1973. The newer Swordfish-class submarine is likely also to be retired in the near future. |
Iraqi children cheer as a U.S. military Humvee drives past them along a street of Baghdad on Tuesday.
The Democrat presidential nominee insists that he will drive tanks differently when he is elected.
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An Army Bradley fighting vehicle patrols Baghdad’s Shiite slum of Sadr City on Wednesday. Fifteen Iraqis were killed in clashes between Shiite militants and U.S. troops in the restive Baghdad neighborhood, an official from Moqtada al-Sadr’s radical Shiite movement said. The mobile homes in Sadr City are full of diversely constructed dwellings.
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Schoolchildren from Palmdale, Calif., wave American flags as the Boeing 707 that served as Air Force One during Ronald Reagan’s two terms as president is moved inside the pavilion at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif., on Monday. Libraries are a lot less quiet now than they used to be when I was a kid. |
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Members of the Florida National Guard hand out bottled water on Tuesday to residents of Pensacola, Fla., affected by Hurricane Ivan. The curbside water delivery has proven to be a very popular aspect of the new Post Exchange in Pensacola.
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| South Korean troops arrive at a military camp in Arbil, Iraq, on Monday, after weeks of special training in Kuwait to adapt themselves to the desert environment. South Korea has almost completed the deployment of thousands of troops to Iraq. Korean tankers get to piggyback on the lowboys a lot. |
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The Russian nuclear submarine Vepr heads into Brest harbor in western France on Tuesday, after a series of exercises in the Atlantic with French navy ships. The Vepr is part of Russia’s Northern Fleet and the first Russian nuclear-powered submarine ever to visit a foreign port. The nuclear weapons it usually carries were taken off for the visit. Western France is soon to be a well recognized anachronism as the French turn more and more eastward and into irrelevancy. Thanks for nothing Frenchies!
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A U.S. military Humvee burns after a car bomb exploded in the Mansour neighborhood of Baghdad on Wednesday. Eyewitnesses said U.S. soldiers were injured in the attack. The driving through Plutonium test procedure was a disappointment.
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Soldiers keep a careful eye on their surroundings after taking refuge in a building when their Bradley fighting vehicle was disabled by a roadside bomb in Sadr City on Wednesday. The Sarge looked everywhere, but the cable remote control was simply nowhere to be found. |
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U.S. soldiers take cover in a building after their Bradley fighting vehicle was disabled by a roadside bomb in Sadr City on Wednesday. Fire Marshals were not surprised that the smoke detectors were not working during this impromptu inspection. |
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U.S. soldiers bail out of their Bradley fighting vehicle after it was disabled by a roadside bomb during an incursion into the Sadr City section of Baghdad on Wednesday. Gee, Sadr City, roadside bomb, who would have thunk it?
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U.S. Army soldiers rest inside their Bradley fighting vehicle during a 24-hour major incursion into the Sadr City section of Baghdad on Wednesday. ZZZZadr ZZity ZZZoldiers, catch a few ZZZZ's. |
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Two Naval aviators assigned to the “Diamond Cutters” of Sea Control Squadron Three Zero (VS-30) complete pre-flight checks of their S-3B Viking prior to launch aboard the aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Lets get ready to rumble! |
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A soldier stands guard Wednesday at the site of a suicide car bomb attack in a busy shop area in western Baghdad. Six people were killed and another 54 wounded in the blast. Numerous complaints from customers have a local swank restaurant reconsidering the continuation of their valet parking service. |
Just another day at the office for our Troops.