Leathernecks from 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, secure a house during a search of the city of Haditha, Iraq, on Wednesday. About 1,000 Marines, sailors and soldiers encircled the city, which lies in the troubled Anbar province, launching the second major operation in this vast western region in less than a month.
The Marines are looking for a few good cellar inspectors.
A soldier walks past the site of a suicide car bombing in Baghdad on Wednesday. The attack missed a U.S. military convoy that was passing in the area, but killed one civilian and left four wounded.
The MPs have begun pulling over all vehicles known to have carried explosives.
A Marine from the 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, searches through a desk drawer at a school in Haditha, Iraq, on Wednesday.
Newsweek has revealed that there has been a conspiracy which implicates several Marines for attempting to cheat on their Accounting finals.
Maj. Gen. Harold Cross, adjutant general for the Mississippi National Guard, pins a Purple Heart on the shirt of Sgt. 1st Class Ellis Martin, of Summit, Miss., a member of the 155th Brigade Combat Team who was critically wounded more than two months ago in Iraq, during a brief ceremony Tuesday at Jackson International Airport, Miss.
Sir, if you tear this new shirt, I promise that I will be "Cross" with you.
Sgt. 1st Class Ellis Martin kisses his two-year-old granddaughter, TiTi Wallace, on Tuesday at Jackson International Airport in Mississippi. Martin is home for a brief visit before returning to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., for additional treatment.
I always thought that if the Army wanted you to have a granddaughter, then they would have issued you one.
Personnel from the 8th Aircraft Maintenance Unit, who work to support the pilots and aircraft of the 8th Fighter Squadron (‘Black Sheep’), walk toward their ride, a C-17 Globemaster III transport, on Tuesday at Holloman Air Force Base, N.M.
Air Force brass have decreed that the "stereo wars" have gotten out of control on military bases.
Amphibious Assault Vehicles storm the beaches of Camp Lejeune, N.C., during a capabilities exercise on May 18.
Some of the cruits at Lejeune thought that the invasion was a good thing.
Airman Jose Casillas, of Redding, Calif., paints one of the 10 retractable sheaves on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln on Monday. The sheaves allow the arresting wire to elongate for an arrested landing on the flight deck. Lincoln is currently undergoing maintenance while in port at Everett, Wash.
Using the new 3-D paint which has been utilized by the Air Force requires a deft touch.
Electrician's Mate 2nd Class Tiffany Vaughan, of Jackson, Miss., hems the inside of a pair of coveralls aboard the aircraft carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower on Monday.
Only the U.S. Navy requires an electrician to do the hemming on coveralls.
Lt. Col. Jeff Cowan parks an A-10 Thunderbolt II on the flightline at Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan. He and other airmen from the 74th Fighter Squadron, based at Pope Air Force Base, N.C., recently arrived for an air and space expeditionary force rotation. Cowan is the squadron's commander.
The Air Force has recently increased parking fines for hot shot pilots who have been flaunting the military regulations.
