Crash and Recovery
March 20th, 2010 | From the Ranks | Posted by Alan Lessig
A DHL Airbus A300 rests on the taxiway after its crew preformed an emergency landing at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, two days prior. Airmen assigned to the 455th Expeditionary Maintenance Group were able to lift the left wing and place it on a flatbed trailer so the plane could be moved off the runway and normal flight operations could resume. (U.S. Air Force photo by/ Tech. Sgt. Jeromy K. Cross/released)
High-speed turns
March 19th, 2010 | From the Ranks | Posted by Alan Lessig
The aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77), the Navy’s 10th and final Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, keels hard to starboard during high-speed turn drills. George H.W. Bush is underway in the Atlantic Ocean supporting fleet training operations. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Micah P. Blechner/Released)
Welcome home
March 18th, 2010 | The Wires | Posted by Alan Lessig
Brian Pierce kisses his wife Audrey and holds his daughter Ava in Rome, Ga., before his company’s welcome home parade. Members of the Calhoun-based 108th Cavalry returned to Rome Tuesday after a year in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/The News Tribune, Ryan Smith)
Fortifying gains in Marjah
March 18th, 2010 | The Wires | Posted by Alan Lessig
Afghanistan-Fear Campaign– In this image taken Monday, March 15, 2010, in Marjah, marines of the First Battalion, Sixth Marine Regiment build a barrier around their base. Taliban insurgents are conducting a fear and intimidation campaign against residents of the southern Afghan town of Marjah, which international forces just wrested from insurgents. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)
Popping flares
March 15th, 2010 | The Wires | Posted by Alan Lessig
During a medevac mission, a Black Hawk chase helicopter with the 82nd Airborne, or Task Force Pegasus, fires off flares, which are used as countermeasures against possible enemy heat-seeking weapons, as it circles for security while the medical helicopter on the ground picks up a patient, in Helmand province, Afghanistan, Friday March 5, 2010. Pegasus crews provide the fast medical evacuation of wounded combatants and civilians. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
The Battle of Old Baldy
March 15th, 2010 | The Wires | Posted by Alan Lessig
The mounted head of Old Baldy, the war horse of Gen. George Meade, is seen with some of Meade’s effects at the Civil War Library and Museum in Philadelphia. The warhorse’s preserved head was the subject of a battle between two city museums that both claimed ownership. A deal has been reached that allows the Grand Army of the Republic Museum and the Civil War Museum to share Old Baldy. He could arrive at the Grand Army museum later this month. (AP Photo/Chris Gardner)
Mountain warfare training
March 14th, 2010 | The Wires | Posted by Alan Lessig
U.S. and South Korea Marines rappel down during the mountain warfare training for the joint U.S.-South Korean military exercises Key Resolve/Foal Eagle (KR/FE) 2010 in Pohang, South Korea on March 9. North Korea’s army said Monday it is ready to “blow up” South Korea and the U.S., hours after the allies kicked off annual military drills that Pyongyang has denounced as a rehearsal for attack. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
Berlin Flag Raiser Dies
March 13th, 2010 | The Wires | Posted by Alan Lessig
There was another iconic flag raising picture from WWII besides the one that most American’s are familiar with. In this May 2, 1945 file photo, Red Army soldiers hoist the Soviet flag over the German parliament, Reichstag, in Berlin. One of the soldiers, Abdulkhakim Ismailov, center of the three soldiers , died on, Feb. 17, 2010, at the age of 94 in the southern Russian province of Dagestan. The photograph was hailed as a Soviet propaganda masterpiece, although the photographer confessed later that the image was staged three days after the Russians captured the capital of Nazi Germany . (AP Photo/ITAR-TASS, Yevgeny Khaldei, FILE)
Boat raid
March 12th, 2010 | The Wires | Posted by Alan Lessig
U.S. Marines from the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, BLT 27 Fox company based in Okinawa, Japan, conduct boat raids in the ongoing Joint U.S.-Philippines military exercise Tuesday March 9, 2010 at the Philippine Marine Base at Ternate, Cavite province, south of Manila, Philippines. Hundreds of troops from the U.S. and Philippine military are taking part in the annual exercise aimed to enhance interoperability between the two long standing allies. This year’s main focus is on disaster, rescue and relief operations. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)
The face of war
March 12th, 2010 | The Wires | Posted by Alan Lessig
Marine Sgt. Shane Hanley, a squad leader from Easy Company, 2-2 Marines, receives treatment by U.S. Army flight medic Sgt. Michael G. Patangan while airborne in an army Task Force Pegasus medevac helicopter, shortly after Hanley was wounded, in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan on Feb. 9th. Hanley, of Punxsutawney, Pa., who agreed to have photos of himself published, sustained shrapnel injuries to the left side of his body, face and eye when an improvised explosive device detonated below him while he was on a foot patrol.
Hanley’s mother told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review newspaper that he underwent surgery–his fifth–Feb. 25 at National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, MD., in an attempt to save the vision in his left eye, and that more surgery was scheduled in early March to repair a ruptured eardrum. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)