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Staff Sgt. Ramon Batista, of Paterson, N.J., shakes a baby’s hand while the soldiers conduct a demographics survey in the little town of Sowaib, Iraq, on Sunday.
Staff Sgt. Ramon Batista, of Paterson, N.J., with 1st Squadron, C Company, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, talks to a child while sitting on the as child’s bike and entertaining the children during a demographics survey in Sowaib, Iraq, on Sunday.
Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC) vehicles assigned to the amphibious assault ship Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) and Expeditionary Strike Group Five (ESG-5) deliver supplies to the citizens in Meulaboh, on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia, on Monday.
Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC) vehicles and Marine CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters assigned the amphibious assault ship Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) and Expeditionary Strike Group Five (ESG-5) deliver supplies to the citizens in Meulaboh, on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia, on Monday.
An Acehnese woman walks past Marines on a beach in Meulaboh, Indonesia, on Tuesday. Marines came ashore on a high-tech hovercraft carrying food, water and a forklift to help repair this tsunami-wrecked town.
A Navy crewman prepares a damaged SH-60 Seahawk helicopter for airlifting to the carrier Abraham Lincoln at Banda Aceh airport, Indonesia, on Tuesday.
A Marine Corps helicopter lifts the wreckage of a Navy SH-60 Seahawk helicopter to the carrier Abraham Lincoln from Banda Aceh airport Tuesday.
Members of D Battery, 1-278th Regimental Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division return to their vehicles after conducting a border crossing inspection between Iraq and Iran on Dec. 25.
Loadmasters guide a Spanish Red Cross support vehicle off an MC-130H Combat Talon II in Band Aceh, Indonesia. Dozens of flights have carried relief supplies and equipment into the region.
Senior Airman Nathan V. Jones guards his position with a .50-caliber weapon during required training at a forward-deployed location Jan. 5. Jones is an explosive ordnance disposal technician with the 379th Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron.
U.S. Army Spc. Jason Nelson, of Company B, 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, uncovers some 125 millimeter artillery shells found in the backyard of an Al Doura home. According 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment officials, the terrorists who lived there planned to use the shells to attack a Christian church in Baghdad.
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Bomb assembly supplies line the floor of an Al Doura home during a raid there Jan. 9, 2005. U.S. soldiers found enough electronics and explosives to make an estimated 50 improvised explosive devices.
Sgt. 1st Class Robert Bobbitt from the 1st Infantry Division, orders his Soldiers to spread out and move toward an area where shots were fired near Balad Ruz, Iraq.
Sgt. 1st Class W. Thomas, from the 377th Theater Support Command in Kuwait, is taking personal leave to assist in the tsunami relief effort in Bangkok, Thailand.
Medically retired band member recovers, rejoins USAF Band
BOLLING AIR FORCE BASE, D.C. -- Master Sgt. Mitchell Morton performs with the U.S. Air Force Band's Silver Wings. He recently returned to service after battling leukemia.
Head Surgeon of the Combined Support Group-Indonesia, U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Loring Issaac Perry, takes a moment to comfort an Indonesian women and her child that lost everything they had during the Tsunami in the city of Meulaboh on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia. Meulaboh is the site of the first Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC) landing of Operation Unified Assistance. Assault Craft Unit Five (ACU-5), assigned to USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6), delivered 34,000 pounds of aid to the Tsunami stricken city. The Bonhomme Richard Expeditionary Strike Group is currently operating in the Indian Ocean off the waters of Indonesia and Thailand in support of Operation Unified Assistance, the humanitarian operation effort in the wake of the Tsunami that struck South East Asia.
