Flood Relief
September 16th, 2010 | The Wires | Posted by Alan Lessig
Pakistani children living in the town of Faridabad, cutoff by surrounding flood waters, climb a tree to watch a navy helicopter evacuating residents to safer ground in Sindh province, Pakistan, on September 14, 2010. A US official is quoted as saying the United Nations will raise an emergency appeal to support flood-ravaged Pakistan, despite concerns that an initial call to donors has fallen short. CARL DE SOUZA/AFP/Getty Images
Bronze Star (w/V) for ‘saving bacon’
September 15th, 2010 | Photography | Posted by Sheila
Chief of Staff of the Air Force General Norton Schwartz talks about Staff Sergeant Kenneth L. Walker, III, before awarding Walker the Bronze Star (with Valor) in a small side room at the Air and Space Conference and Technology Exposition held at the Gaylord Convention Center in National Harbor, MD, on Tuesday, September 14, 2010. Schwartz commented that Walker “saved his commander’s bacon” on May 24, 2009.
Incheon Landing
September 15th, 2010 | The Wires | Posted by Alan Lessig
U.S. Marines play the role of General Douglas MacArthur and other U.S. and South Korean Generals, during the 60th Incheon Landing Operations Commemoration Ceremony, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2010 at sea near Incheon, the coastal city where United Nations Forces led by U.S. General Douglas MacArthur landed in September, 1950 just months after North Korea invaded the South.
Below, U.S. and South Korean AAVs sail to shore under bombardment and a smoke screen as they re-enact the amphibious landing at Incheon. (Both Photos/AP Photo/ Lee Jin-man)
Tying one off
September 15th, 2010 | Photography | Posted by Sheila
A Sailor works the lines as the USS Enterprise, CVN 65, returns to port in Norfolk from a six-week cruise on Thursday, September 9, 2010. (Sheila Vemmer)
Airborne
September 14th, 2010 | From the Ranks | Posted by Alan Lessig
U.S. Soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division parachute after jumping from a C-130 Hercules aircraft over Fort Bragg, N.C., Sept. 12, 2010. (DoD photo by Staff Sgt. Elizabeth Rissmiller, U.S. Air Force/Released)
Spray N Wash
September 14th, 2010 | From the Ranks | Posted by Alan Lessig
MANILA, Philippines (Sept. 8, 2010) A Sailor aboard the aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73) uses a fire hose to clean mud and debris from one of the ship’s 90,000-pound anchors as the ship departs Manila, Philippines. George Washington arrived in Manila Sept. 4, making its third liberty port call since departing Yokosuka, Japan, for a 2010 summer patrol. George Washington, with its combined crew of more than 5,000 Sailors, now returns to sea to continue security and stability operations in the western Pacific Ocean. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Adam K. Thomas/Released)
Back Blast
September 13th, 2010 | The Wires | Posted by Alan Lessig
The back-blast from an AT-4 sent unsecured weapons and spent brass flying as soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division Alpha Battery 4 defended Combat Outpost Nolen from a Taliban attack on Sept. 11, 2010. Combat Outpost Nolen is located near the village of Jellawar in the Arghandab Valley. The United States and NATO have 150,000 troops in Afghanistan fighting the Taliban-led insurgency, most of them in the southern hotspots of Helmand and Kandahar provinces. (Photo by Patrick Baz/AFP/Getty Images)
Almost Home
September 13th, 2010 | Photography | Posted by Sheila
IC3 Vijay Kataria takes a face full of wind as the USS Enterprise, CVN 65, heads toward Norfolk as she returns from a six-week cruise on Thursday, September 9, 2010. Enterprise is the fastest carrier in the Navy, so it can get pretty windy outside on the o-11 level when the crew is looking forward to returning home. (Sheila Vemmer/staff)
Bird Hunt
September 12th, 2010 | From the Ranks | Posted by Alan Lessig
Master Sgt. Timothy Vap, Marine Fighter Training Squadron 401 staff noncommissioned officer in charge, and Holly, his Golden Labrador Retriever look for doves during the early morning light of the opening day of dove season, Sept. 1, 2010. The land used is just south of the Marine Corps Air Station in Yuma, Ariz., and only military personnel and retirees may hunt on it. The duo were just a few of the several hunters and dogs that took up positions in the citrus and alfalfa fields to take part in the annual hunt. (Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Aaron Diamant)
Remembering 9/11
September 11th, 2010 | Photography | Posted by Alan Lessig
Nine years ago today, our nation suffered it’s worst terrorist attack ever as four hijacked airliners crashed into the twin towers at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and into a field in rural Pennsylvania.
Former Army Times photographer Warren Zinn raced to New York and and while on the roof of the Verizon Building, which is next to the World Trade Center, he photographed Verizon employee Mike Carrigan, who found a phone card that had fallen onto the roof. The phone card ironically showed a picture of the twin towers before they had collapsed into the rubble seen here.
Navy Times reporter Mark Faram was at the Navy Annex next to the Pentagon when he heard American Airlines Flight 77 roar by and explode as it crashed into the building. He ran down the hill and arrived outside the west entrance of the Pentagon where he found a Priest praying over a wounded man that had managed to get out of the burning building. All around, service members, DOD employees, and emergency workers mobilized to help the injured.
