A Skip and Jump
July 7th, 2011 | From the Ranks | Posted by Chris Maddaloni
Petty Officer 3rd Class Bryan Myers, assigned to Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit 2, leaps from rock to rock along the ocean floor during diving operations in Valparaiso, Chile, on June 29, 2011. Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit 2 is participating in Navy Diver-Southern Partnership Station, a multinational partnership engagement intended to increase interoperability and partner nation capacity through diving operations. DoD photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Jayme Pastoric, U.S. Navy.
Two If By Sea
June 7th, 2011 | From the Ranks | Posted by Chris Maddaloni
BOSTON, MA – JUNE 3: In this image provided by the U.S. Navy, the USS Constitution sails into Boston Harbor during an underway Battle of Midway commemoration on June 3, 2011 in Boston, Massachusetts. The underway honored approximately 200 members of Gold Star Families who lost loved ones in Operations Enduring and Iraqi Freedom and the Navy’s victory at Midway Island in World War II. (Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Kathryn E. Macdonald/U.S. Navy via Getty Images)
Wet Head
May 23rd, 2011 | From the Ranks | Posted by Alan Lessig
Master Sgt. Dennis McJunkin dones his helmet during Marine combat water survival training. The addition of a helmet, flack vest, weapon and boots are the requirement for level 3 of the training. McJunkin is a firefighter with the 386th Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Cynthia Spalding)
Manning the Sail
August 21st, 2010 | Photography | Posted by Chris Maddaloni
FT3 (SS) Sean Smith keeps watch on the bridge of the USS Rhode Island, a U.S. Navy Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine, somewhere in the Atlantic ocean, August 16th, 2010.
Beachfront Property
February 24th, 2010 | Photography | Posted by Chris Maddaloni
Soldiers with the 82nd Airborne at FOB White, near the pier at Port-au-Prince, eat their meals (all MREs, all the time – this isn’t Afghanistan, y’know) on the beach – it keeps the rats away from tents.
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.
From the Ranks: 010910
January 9th, 2010 | From the Ranks | Posted by M. Scott Mahaskey
U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Michael Fort, with Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, crosses a stream during a security patrol through the Nawa district of Helmand province, Afghanistan, on Oct. 20, 2009. U.S. Marines conduct security patrols to decrease insurgent activity and gain the trust of the Afghan people. The Marines are deployed with Regimental Combat Team 3 to conduct counterinsurgency operations in partnership with Afghan National Security Forces in southern Afghanistan. DoD photo by Cpl. Artur Shvartsberg, U.S. Marine Corps.
The Dahla Dam
December 9th, 2009 | Photography | Posted by Chris Maddaloni
The Dahla Dam on the Argandab River, which was built with help from the West in the 50′s, feeds a long network of canals, irrigating the former breadbasket of the country. Eighty percent of Kandahar’s population near some aspect of this system – and after years of war, the irrigation system works a significantly reduced capacity. ISAF officials say it will be at least five years until the dam and waterways are working fully again.
Buoy #9
August 6th, 2009 | Photography | Posted by Chris Maddaloni
MK3 Dustin Messmer checks out a broken buoy in the Chesapeake Bay as part of a Coast Guard ANT (Aids to Navigation) boat crew making their rounds. They have more than 400 buoys to keep track of in their area – not to mention old lighthouses and other problems that can pop up…