Firing a Salute
March 24th, 2010 | Photography | Posted by Alan Lessig
U.S. Navy Aviation Ordnanceman Airman Recruit Chanda Axton fires a salute battery during a live-fire exercise aboard the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) while under way in the Pacific Ocean March 12, 2010. Nimitz and embarked Carrier Air Wing 11 are en route to the United States after an eight-month deployment to the Arabian Sea in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. (DoD photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class John Philip Wagner Jr., U.S. Navy/Released)
New Afghan Cops Sent to Jail
March 24th, 2010 | The Wires | Posted by Alan Lessig
Arrested Afghan police personnel (C and R) board a US Marines V-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft to be shipped out after being caught smoking narcotics inside a US Marine base of 3rd Battalion, 6th Marines, in Marjah, Helmand province, on March 22, 2010. Five members of Afghan police were expelled from their unit and sent to jail in Lashkar Gah prior to a graduation ceremony held inside a US military base. (Photo by MAURICIO LIMA/AFP/Getty Images)
Peace
March 23rd, 2010 | The Wires | Posted by Alan Lessig
Sgt. Kevin Garcia of Colorado Springs, Colo., tries to teach the peace sign to Afghans while patrolling with the 4th Brigade Special Troops Battalion on March 22 in Nangarhar province of Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
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)