A different ISAF patch is attached to a backpack of a U.S. soldier of the 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment, 5th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, in the Badula Qulp area, west of Lashkar Gah in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2010. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)

A U.S. Marine from 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment walks past an Afghan cemetery in Marjah in Afghanistan’s Helmand province. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

The chicken didn’t stand a chance. Marines from 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment cook a chicken inside a farm compound where they stayed for the night in Marjah in Afghanistan’s Helmand province on Thursday Feb. 25, 2010. The Marines usual resupply was not able to reach the Marine company and although they had not run out of supplies they decided to butcher and cook their own meal. Fire roasted chicken beats a cold MRE any day of the week. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

U.S. Marine Mark Sashegyi of Miami,Fl.,  bundles up in cold weather gear to try and stay warm while he patrols the deck of  aircraft carrier USS Nimitz in Hong Kong during a recent port call. The visit by Nimitz and four other ships to Hong Kong  is a sign that recent tensions between China and the U.S. may be easing after flare-ups over an arms sale to Taiwan and the Dalai Lama’s meeting with President Obama. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

In this Thursday Feb. 25, 2010 photo, U.S. Marines carry two Afghan boys with non-combat related injuries to a waiting U.S. Army Task Force Pegasus helicopter, during a medevac mission en route to a field hospital, in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan. Pegasus crews provide the fast medical evacuation of those wounded, whether combatants or civilians. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

A U.S. Marine from 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment walks through a farm compound where his company stopped to rest for the night in Marjah in Afghanistan’s Helmand province on Wednesday Feb. 24, 2010. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

Afghan army commandos stand on a sand bank as a US army Apache helicopter flies above at sunset in Marjah’s Balakino Bazar neighborhood on February 24, 2010. US-led troops were inching closer to declaring victory over a Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan as a senior commander said Febrruary 24 that militant resistance had fallen dramatically.  Residents of the Marjah area in Helmand province were streaming out in search of food and other supplies, risking heavily-mined roads, humanitarian workers said. (Photo by PATRICK BAZ/AFP/Getty Images)

Nepal Army soldiers perform during Army Day celebrations in Katmandu, Nepal, on Feb. 12. The festival is dedicated to Hindu God Shiva, who has multiple arms. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)

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)

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)

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)

Aircraft technicians make adjustments to the propeller of a Hurricane MkII aircraft at the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Centre at RAF Coningsby on Feb. 9 in Coningsby, England. The Hurricane at the base is believed to be the last to enter service in the RAF in 1944. Planes at the base are currently undergoing their annual service in preperation for this years 70th anniversary Battle of Britain Celebrations at RAF Fairford. ( Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Aircraft technician Edward Cash works in the nose bay of a Lancaster Bomber at the ‘Battle of Britain Memorial Flight’ centre at RAF Coningsby on Feb. 9 in Coningsby, England. The Lancaster PA474 was built in 1945, and is one of only two operational aircarft ramianing of the 7377 that were built. Planes at the base are currently undergoing their annual service in preperation for this years 70th anniversary Battle of Britain Celebrations at the Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford. ( Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Like an episode of “Fear Factor,” Marines drank cobra blood and ate scorpions during a jungle survival program as part of the annual combined military exercise Cobra Gold 2010 at a Navy base in Chonburi province, Thailand, on Feb. 9. About 14,000 military personnel from six nations — South Korea, Indonesia, Thailand, the United States, Singapore and Japan — are involved in the largest U.S.-led war games in the Pacific, which end Feb. 11. (Pornchai Kittiwongsakul / AFP / Getty Images)

Snow is seen on a statute at the Korean War Memorial in Washington on Saturday, Feb. 6, as a historic snow storm hit the nation’s capital with snow amounts ranging from 22 to 37 inches. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Pvt. 2 Zachariah Thompson, of Saukcentre, Minn., belonging to 2nd Battalion 12th Infantry, recovers from a bloody nose between rounds during a recent boxing match at Command Outpost Michigan near the village of Kandigal, in the Pech river valley, Kunar province, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)

For as long as there have been wars, there have been good-luck charms carried by soldiers to protect them from harm. Some carry religious medals, while others might try a lucky rabbit’s foot. In this 2008 photo from the  Korengal Valley of Afghanistan, U.S. Army Spc. Kyle Stephenson, 21, shows a four-leaf clover he carries as his “lucky charm” after climbing a mountain with fellow soldiers in eastern Afghanistan. American forces from 2nd Platoon, Viper Company, of the 1-26 Infantry occupied a strategic mountaintop and were attacked by Taliban insurgents. No Americans were injured in the ensuing firefight and Taliban casualties were unknown. The luck of the Irish was with them.  (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

Jean Gerber, 11, center, grimaces as medic Buddy Davis removes a bandage to check on the boy’s wound at a country club used as a fort operating base for the 82nd Airborne Division in Port-au-Prince, Sunday, Jan. 17, 2010. Relief groups and officials are focused on moving aid flowing into Haiti to survivors of the powerful earthquake that hit the country on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

South Korean special warfare forces train in the snow during a winter field drill in Pyeonchang, some 180 kilometers east of Seoul on January 8, 2010. The Korean peninsula is the world’s last Cold War frontier as Stalinst North Korea and pro-Western South Korea have been technically at war since the 1950-53 conflict. AFP PHOTO/JUNG YEON-JE

Rob found some pics in April of Iranian snipers on parade, so I’ll respond with this week’s parade gem… ashame the weapons don’t match:

Militiawomen receive inspection in a parade of the celebrations for the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, in central Beijing, capital of China, Oct. 1, 2009 (Xinhua/Liu Dawei).