The sun’s rays glint off the hull of the strategic missile submarine USS Maryland as it cruises atop the waves somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean, Feb. 15, 2009.
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Monthly Archives: February 2009
Exercise Coconut Grove
MALDIVES (Feb. 22, 2009) Members of the Maldives National Defense Force set up a 360 degree perimeter as a CH-46E Sea Night helicopter comes in for landing during Exercise Coconut Grove.
Marines and Sailors from the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) and the Boxer Expeditionary Strike Group are participating in Exercise Coconut Grove, a bi-lateral, military to military and humanitarian civic assistance engagement designed to strengthen international relations and build interoperability between the services.
(U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Jesse Leger/Released)
Burial At Sea
GULF OF OMAN (Feb 24, 2009) Aviation Ordnanceman Airman John Adam presents Capt. Ladd Wheeler, commanding officer of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) with an American flag during a burial at sea.
Theodore Roosevelt and embarked Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 8 are operating in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility.
(U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Joshua Bruns/Released)
Double Vision
U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Robert Cole looks toward the amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima while providing port security as it arrives on Kuwait Naval Base, Feb. 14, 2009.
Cole is assigned to Maritime Expeditionary Squadron 1.
U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Kenneth G. Takada
Mountain Watch
U.S. Army 1st Lt. Patrick Higgins surveys a village from a cliff while Spc. Aaron Trapley, Sgt. Gary Fordyce and Sgt. Nicholas Gauthier provides sniper overwatch and security during a foot patrol near Forward Operating Base Mizan, Afghanistan, Feb. 23, 2009.
The soldiers are assigned to 1st Battalion 4th Infantry Regiment.
Pen Man
U.S. Army Sgt. Heriberto Medina gives a pen to a little girl at the hospital in Paktia province, Afghanistan, Feb. 17, 2009, during a stop there by the provincial reconstruction team.
Medina, assigned to the 1st Battalion, 178th Infantry Regiment, is part of a unit that usually carries pens and candy to give to children.
DoD photo by Fred W. Baker III
See the Photo Essay here.
On The Move: 13th Bomb Squadron Continues Global Deterrence Mission
A B-2 Spirit from the 509th Bomb Wing at Whiteman Air Force Base receives post flight maintenance after arriving at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, Feb. 23.
More than 250 Airmen and six B-2 Spirits, deployed from Whiteman Air Force Base, MO, began arriving here Feb. 23, to replace the 23rd Expeditionary Bomb Squadron and its B-52 Stratofortress as the Pacific regions Continuous U.S. Bomber Presence.
Ice Rescue Training In Sandusky, Ohio
Members of Coast Guard Station Marblehead return with their gear to their 20-foot ice rescue air boat after an ice rescue drill with local fire department teams from Vermilion, Norwalk and Sandusky on February 23, 2009.
Community Service Project
MANILA, Philippines (Feb. 21, 2009) Intelligence Specialist 2nd Class Jessica Helms, assigned to the U.S. 7th Fleet staff embarked aboard the amphibious command ship USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19), passes a bucket of concrete to a sailor from the Armed Forces of the Philippines Navy.
Blue Ridge and U.S. 7th Fleet staff volunteers are participating in a community service project with Philippine sailors to help build a multi-tenant housing unit.
(U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Peter D. Lawlor/Released)
Sky High Observer
U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Andrew Hedin, flying in an HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter, observes another Pave Hawk over Farallon Island west of San Francisco, Feb. 17, 2009.
The helicopters and their crews, from the California Air National Guard’s 129th Rescue Wing on Moffett Federal Airfield, Calif., are supporting the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service by helping transport new photovoltaic batteries to power a lighthouse and workshop at the agency’s research facility on the island.
Stennis Replenishment
PACIFIC OCEAN (Feb. 23, 2009) The Military Sealift Command combat stores ship USNS San Jose (T-AFS 7) prepares to come alongside the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) during a replenishment-at-sea.
John C. Stennis is on a scheduled six-month deployment to the western Pacific Ocean.
(U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Jon Husman/Released)
New Wheelchair
A child is helped into the new wheelchair he received at the Babil Rehabilitation Center in Hillah, Iraq, Feb 19, 2009.
U.S. Army photo by Capt. Stephen C. Short
Read the story: On the Ground: Donations Provide Wheelchairs, School Supplies to Iraqis
Super Hornet Preflight Checks
PACIFIC OCEAN (Feb. 22, 2009) Sailors from the “Argonauts” of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 147 conduct preflight checks on an F/A-18E Super Hornet on the flight deck aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74).
John C. Stennis and Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 9 are on a scheduled six-month deployment to the western Pacific Ocean.
(U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Walter M. Wayman/ Released)
Flash Gear
PACIFIC OCEAN (Feb. 11, 2009) Damage Controlman Fireman Coady Bolles dons his flash gear during a repair locker training session aboard amphibious assault ship USS Boxer (LHD 4).
Boxer and the Boxer Expeditionary Strike Group/13th Marine Expeditionary Unit are on a scheduled deployment supporting global maritime security.
(U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class John Siller/Released)
