Columns of tents provide shelter to the Marines and Sailors of 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine regiment at Camp Belleau Wood, Helmand province, Afghanistan, Feb. 3. Camp Belleau Wood was constructed by Marines and sailors from 3/6 in a matter of days in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Photo by Lance Cpl. Tommy Bellegarde.
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01/08/2010 - U.S. Airmen from the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Flight, 35th Civil Engineer Squadron check for threats during a tactical reload drill Jan. 8, 2010, at Misawa Air Base, Japan. The drill is part of the flight's bimonthly, four-mile march. (DoD photo by Senior Airman Jamal D. Sutter, U.S. Air Force/Released)
02/02/2010 – U.S. Navy Aviation Support Equipment Technician 3rd Class Joshua Seeley participates in a burial-at-sea ceremony aboard Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74), under way in the Pacific Ocean in support of pilot carrier qualifications for Naval Air Training Command, Feb. 2, 2010.
(U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Josue L. Escobosa/Released)
GULF OF OMAN (Feb. 4, 2010) Personnel and supplies fill the hangar bay of the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) during an underway replenishment with fast combat support ship USNS Supply (T-AOE 6). Dwight D. Eisenhower is on a six-month deployment supporting maritime security operations. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Bradley Evans/Released)
02/01/2010 - U.S. Sailors assigned to amphibious command ship USS Mount Whitney (LCC/JCC 20) lower the ensign as the ship gets under way from its home port in Gaeta, Italy, Feb. 1, 2010. The ship and embarked members of the U.S. 6th Fleet staff are departing the area to conduct scheduled training in the Mediterranean Sea. (DoD photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Gary Keen, U.S. Navy/Released)
GROTON, Connecticut (Feb. 3, 2010) The Los Angeles-class attack submarine USS Philadelphia (SSN 690) pulls into Submarine Base New London after returning from her final deployment. Philadelphia is set to be inactivated at a ceremony later this year. (U.S. Navy photo by John Narewski/Released)
BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan--U.S. Army soldiers from the 36th Air Support Medical Company, and Afghan Sgt. 1st Class Ghulam Sakhi (left), flight medic with the 438th Air Expeditionary Advisory Group/Combined Air Power Transition Force, escort an Afghan solder to a rotary wing medical evacuation on Bagram Airfield Feb. 3, 2010. This rotary wing medevac is the first of its kind in Afghanistan, where a combined Afghan and U.S. crew takes Afghans from coalition medical facilities and returns them to Afghan facilities. (U.S. Air Force photo by/ Tech. Sgt. Jeromy K. Cross/released)
U.S. Navy Lt. j.g. John Sines, left, and Lt. Andres Aviles scan the horizon through periscopes aboard the attack submarine USS Santa Fe during a transit of the Pacific Ocean, Jan. 29, 2010. Sines is a damage control assistant and Aviles is a navigation operation officer. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Ronald Gutridge
GULF OF ADEN (Feb. 2, 2010) U.S. Coast Guard Maritime Safety and Security Team 91114 and members of the visit, board, search and seizure team of the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Farragut (DDG 99) investigate a Somali skiff. Farragut is part of Combined Task Force 151, a multinational task force established to conduct anti-piracy operations in the Gulf of Aden. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Elizabeth Allen/Released)
U.S. Army 1st Sgt. Samuel Rapp (right) assigned to 1st Battalion, 64th Armored Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, passes a plate of hot food to another soldier at a combined check point east of Mosul, Iraq, on Jan. 25, 2010. DoD photo by Pfc. Ali Hargis, U.S. Army. (Released)
U.S. Air Force aerospace propulsion airmen with the 28th Maintenance Squadron work on a B-1B Lancer bomber engine at Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D., on Feb. 3, 2010. DoD photo by Airman 1st Class Anthony Sanchelli, U.S. Air Force. (Released)
Kabul – Female Afghan National Police (ANP) members listen to a speech during an ANP female recruiting conference Feb. 1, 2010.
The two-day conference covered how to recruit and train the additional 5,000 women that Afghan President Hamid Karzai has mandated be added to the police force by 2014.
(U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Sarah Brown/RELEASED)
ATLANTIC OCEAN (Feb. 3, 2010) The littoral combat ship USS Freedom (LCS 1) fires multiple rounds from its Mk 110 57mm gun during combat systems testing off the Florida coast. Freedom is undergoing final crew training and certification before deploying to the U.S. Southern Command area of focus. (U.S. Navy photo by Lt. Ed Early/Released)
U.S. Army Spc. Aaron Blasingame, from 4th Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 5th Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, provides rear security inside a Stryker armored vehicle during a combat mission in Helmand province, Afghanistan, on Jan. 15, 2010. The Army uses the Stryker in its day-to-day operations because of its unique combination of maneuverability and firepower. DoD photo by Tech. Sgt. Efren Lopez, U.S. Air Force. (Released)
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