JUNEAU, Alaska — Lt. j.g. Sarah Morin followed by Petty Officer 3rd Class Micheal Hernon swim through the ice covered surface in the harbor of Auke Bay, Alaska, as they reach the midway point of the survival swim exercise Tuesday, January 27, 2009.
The training exercise is part of a five-day course which culminates with an overnight survival exercise in a remote area on Douglas Island, Alaska.
A WC-130J readies for takeoff at Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska.
Reserve Hurricane Hunters of the 403rd Wing from Keesler AFB, Miss., deployed for a month to collect weather data ahead of pending winter storms.
The data they collect increases the accuracy of the National Weather Service forecast by 10 to 20 percent.
U.S. Marines assault a bunker during training on Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, Calif., Jan. 24, 2009.
The Marines, assigned to 1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, are preparing for deployment.
BAHRAIN (Jan. 24, 2009) Cpl. Benjamin Chavez loads supplies aboard the multi-purpose amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7).
Iwo Jima is deployed as part of the Iwo Jima Expeditionary Strike Group supporting maritime security operations in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility.
(U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Michael Starkey/Released)
An Iraqi National Police officer displays his ink-stained finger after leaving a polling station in the New Baghdad district of eastern Baghdad, Jan. 28, 2009.
The Iraqi government held a special election to allow Iraqi Security Forces to vote in the provincial elections, scheduled for Jan. 31.
U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Alex Licea
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Japan Air Self Defense Force members wait outside of their C-130 after arriving Jan. 27 at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam.
More than 60 JASDF members arrived in three C-130s to participate in Exercise Cope North 09-1, a regularly scheduled exercise scheduled for Feb. 2 through 13.
Cope North is designed to enhance U.S. and Japanese air operations in defense of Japan.
JASDF F-2s from Tsuiki Air Base, Japan, and E-2Cs from Misawa AB, Japan, will join forward deployed U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcons from Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, B-52 Stratofortress’ currently deployed to Andersen AFB, and Navy EA-6B from VAQ-136 Carrier Air Wing Five, Atsugi, Japan, will participate in this year’s exercise with a focus on interoperability.
AT SEA (Jan 27, 2009) Interior Communications Electrician 3rd Class Erica Tapia assists in sorting mail during a mail working party aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71).
Theodore Roosevelt and Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 8 are conducting operations in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility.
(U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Apprentice Andrew Skipworth/Released)
A U.S. Army soldier walks down a street with two children in the Hayaniyah district of Basra, Iraq, Jan. 20, 2009.
The soldier, assigned to the 793rd Military Police Battalion, 8th Military Police Brigade, was in the area to deliver medical supplies to a local hospital.
U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Andre N. McIntyre
U.S. Army Cpl. Garrett Simoneau gets a friendly push while on a joint patrol with Iraqi national police in Husseniyah, Jan. 24, 2009.
Simoneau is assigned to the 25th Infantry Division’s Company A, 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team.
Dave Mainwright, an Australian army warrant officer, teaches U.S. Marines a different way to zero out their weapons during a data collection exercise at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, Calif., Jan. 21, 2009.
The Marines are assigned to 1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment.
U.S. soldiers and Iraqi national police patrol the Rissala market while an Iraqi police officer talks with vendors in Mosul, Iraq, Jan. 21, 2009.
INDIAN OCEAN (Jan. 25, 2009) Information Systems Technician 3rd Class Adam Gayner, assigned to the guided missile destroyer USS Mason (DDG 87), mans a 25MM chain gun while monitoring a small boat transiting from the merchant vessel MV Faina.
Faina and her crew are being held by pirates off the coast of Somalia.
Mason is conducting maritime security operations in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations.
(U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Michael R. McCormick/Released)
U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Adrian Aribal performs post-phase maintenance on a SH-60B Sea Hawk helicopter aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Lassen in the Pacific Ocean, Jan. 23, 2009.
The USS Lassen is assigned to Destroyer Squadron 15 and is permanently forward deployed to Yokosuka, Japan.
U.S. Marines from Charlie Company, 2nd Assault Amphibian Battalion, and Golf Company, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, move forward toward the breach during a deliberate assault course training evolution on Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, Calif., Jan. 18, 2009.
