A soldier waves a flag while waiting for Vice President Dick Cheney to arrive at Fort Hood, Texas, on Wednesday.
I am so reminded of the Gore vice-presidency!
After a year-long deployment to Iraq, Chief Warrant Officer Troy Blackmon (left), gets a kiss from his wife Angela and a hug from his daughter Brooklyn during a homecoming ceremony for soldiers from the 4th Infantry Division at Fort Hood, Texas, on Wednesday.
Tracy Wilson (right) of the 406th Corps Support Battalion greets his wife and meets his 4-month-old daughter Trashala for the first time upon his unit's return to Evansville, Ind., after a 14-month deployment to Iraq on Wednesday.
Aviation Warfare Systems Operator 2nd Class Micheal Reilly wipes a tear from his mother's face before he deploys with the aircraft carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) on Tuesday at Norfolk Naval Station, Va.
Family and friends wave goodbye as the aircraft carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) departs from Naval Station Norfolk on Tuesday.
Operation Specialist 1st Class Brian Low plays with his son after returning to Mayport Naval Station, Fla., from a six-month deployment aboard the guided missile frigate Stephen W. Groves (FFG 29) on Wednesday. Groves conducted two joint Coast Guard and Navy interdiction operations resulting in the interdiction of 2.8 metric tons of cocaine.
Laura Piper, of Lexington, Ky., puts a ring on the finger of her fiance, Spc. Charles Cobb of Battery C, 2nd Battalion, 138th Field Artillery, during their wedding ceremony while brigade Chaplain Johnnie Toby officiates, at Nelson County High School gymnasium in Bardstown, Ky., on Thursday. Cobb's unit will be stationed in Iraq from 12 to 18 months.
Soldiers from Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment, 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, avoid children as they walk to school in eastern Baghdad on Tuesday.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska (right), talks with Sgt. Floyd Ticket, mayor of Buckland, Alaska, during a farewell ceremony at Camp Shelby, Miss., on Tuesday. Ticket and nearly 600 of his comrades with the 3rd Battalion, 297th Infantry Regiment, are deploying to Iraq.
Leah Batson kisses her boyfriend, Spc. Todd Hill of the 128th Military Police Company, Alabama Army National Guard, as he arrives home to Huntsville, Ala., on Tuesday. Having completed predeployment training at Camp Shelby, Miss., Hill and his comrades were given a few days to visit their families and friends before deploying to Iraq.
A Navy wife holds her child as her husband departs Norfolk Naval Station, Va., aboard the aircraft carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) on Tuesday. Ike is bound for the Mediterranean Sea, and likely the Persian Gulf as well.
Sailors prepare to man the rails of the guided missile cruiser Anzio (CG 68) as families and friends watch from pierside, just before the ship departs on a scheduled deployment with the carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower strike group on Tuesday.
