Spring training, Afghan style
February 20th, 2010 | The Wires | Posted by Alan Lessig
Staff Sgt. Josh Campbell from Winfield, Kan., tries to play cricket with locals in the village of Tarale in the Pech river valley, Kunar province, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)
Liftoff
February 19th, 2010 | From the Ranks | Posted by Alan Lessig
An Air Force F-16D Fighting Falcon aircraft assigned to the 18th Aggressor Squadron, Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, conducts a mission during Exercise Cope North at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, on Feb. 15. The Air Force and the Japan Air Self-Defense Force conduct Cope North annually at Andersen to increase combat readiness and interoperability, concentrating on coordination and evaluation of air tactics, techniques and procedures. (Staff Sgt. Jacob N. Bailey/Air Force)
Trick shot
February 19th, 2010 | From the Ranks | Posted by Alan Lessig
U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit shotgun shooter Staff Sgt. Josh Richmond goes behind his back to blast a clay pigeon from the sky. Sgt. 1st Class Charles Coffey tossed the targets and provided play-by-play of Richmond’s trick-shooting exhibition Jan. 7 at San Antonio Gun Club. (Tim Hipps/Army)
The Jolly Regulator
February 18th, 2010 | Photography | Posted by Chris Maddaloni
A Navy Seabee diver studies the damage chart of the supports on the the pier at the port of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Hundreds of supports to the remaining 30 percent of the secondary pier will have to be fixed before more than one cargo ship can dock.
Port Repair
February 17th, 2010 | Photography | Posted by Chris Maddaloni
Chief Equipment Operator Steven Eckroth, a Navy diver with Underwater Construction Team One, works to repair the supports on the the pier at the port of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The Army 544th Engineer Dive Team is working on the biggest mission in its history – hand in hand with Navy divers and engineers to help get the port running at a higher capacity – as it is the main artery for the country.
Counter-sniper
February 17th, 2010 | From the Ranks | Posted by Alan Lessig
A Marine with Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, attempts to draw fire from a Taliban sniper who had Marines pinned down Feb. 15 in Marjah, Helmand province, Afghanistan. Marines with Bravo and Alpha Co., 1/6 inserted into the city at night by helicopters as part of a large-scale offensive aimed at routing the Taliban from their last-known stronghold. (Photo by Lance Cpl. James Clark)
February 17th, 2010 | The Wires | Posted by Alan Lessig
Airborne in a Black hawk helicopter on a U.S. Army medevac misssion, a Marine MP, left, guards a Taliban fighter who is wounded, along with two other seriously wounded Taliban fighters captured after a firefight, according to the Marines on the ground, over Marjah, Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, Saturday Feb. 13, 2010. Aero-medical crews of Task Force Pegasus are positioned throughout southern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
Follow me
February 16th, 2010 | The Wires | Posted by Alan Lessig
A U.S. paratrooper from the 82nd airborne carries a sack of rice for a woman at a distribution point at the national stadium in Port-au-Prince on January 31. Quake-hit Haiti will need at least a decade of painstaking reconstruction, aid chiefs and donor nations warned, as homeless, scarred survivors struggled to rebuild their lives. (AFP photo / Thony Belizaire)
Swimming with the Big Fish
February 16th, 2010 | From the Ranks | Posted by Alan Lessig
Dolphins swim along side the Military Sealift Command fleet replenishment oiler USNS Henry J. Kaiser (T-AO 187) during an underway replenishment with the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln in the Pacific Ocean on Feb. 5. (MCSN Robert Robbins / Navy)
Medevac in Marjah
February 16th, 2010 | The Wires | Posted by Alan Lessig
After jumping off his helicopter at a landing zone marked with a smoke grenade, Army flight medic Staff Sgt. Robert B. Cowdrey, of La Junta, Colo., right, with Charlie Company, All American Dustoff, carries a stretcher to evacuate a Marine wounded in a rocket-propelled grenade attack, in Marjah, Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, on Feb. 13. Aero-medical crews, assigned to the 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade, Task Force Pegasus, are positioned throughout southern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)