MARAMBIA ISLAND, Brazil (July 25, 2009) Marines from the U.S., Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile and Peru disembark Landing Craft Unit 1643, from Assault Craft Unit (ACU) 2 based in Little Creek, Va., during the U.S. Marine Corps Forces South multinational amphibious exercise Southern Exchange 2009. (U.S Army photo by Spc. Michael Loggins/Released)
Air Force Academy Basic Cadets John Vivadelli and Jake Melia race through the monkey bars July 21 at the Jacks Valley Assault Course near Colorado Springs, Colo. Basic cadet training started June 25 and continues through Aug. 1. (U.S. Air Force photo/Dennis Rogers)
KODIAK, Alaska - Aviation Survival Technician First Class Chuck Ferrante, a crewman from an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter from Air Station Kodiak hovering above, holds onto a lifering and two kayaks as crewmen from the fishing vessel Vigilant tow him toward the vessel to take the weathered kayakers aboard July 30, 2009. The aircrew located the two men after a search near Gore Point about 40 miles southeast of Homer. The men were on a trip from Seward to Homer and had been kayaking for eight days. Weather worsened and they became tired and lost some gear prompting them to use their emergency locator beacon and contact the Coast Guard. The kayakers remained aboard the fishing vessel Vigilant and will be taken to Homer in the next 48 hours. (U.S. Coast Guard photo/Petty Officer 1st Class Sara Francis )
Staff Sgt. Christopher Jarrel keeps control of Uran at the Transit Center at Manas, Kyrgyzstan, recently.
Sergeant Jarrel is a military working dog handler assigned to the 376th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron.
He and Uran complete sweeps of aircraft and vehicles for any suspicious items.
They are deployed from the 19th Airlift Wing Security Forces Squadron at Little Rock Air Force Base, Ark.
Mexican Secretary of National Defense Gen. Guillermo Galvan, left, and U.S. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates stand at attention during a full honors arrival ceremony welcoming Galvan to the Pentagon, July 30, 2009. DoD photo by U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Molly A. Burgess
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Spc. Cesar Lopez gives pointers to an Iraqi Army Soldier applying a pressure dressing on a simulated wound during a training exercise in the midst of a sandstorm on Combat Outpost Carver in Salman Pak, July 29. Photo by Pvt. Jared N. Gehmann, 82nd Airborne Division.
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U.S. Army Chaplain (Capt.) Michael Wikstrom shows Afghan refugee children how to blow bubbles during an aid delivery mission in Kabul, Afghanistan, July 24, 2009.Wikstrom is assigned to the Combined Security Transition Command Afghanistan. Chaplains and coalition forces frequently volunteer to distribute donated clothing, school supplies and food aid to people throughout the Kabul area. U.S. Army photo by Senior Airman Marc Lane
U.S. Army Cadet Bernard Wheeler, right, and U.S. Army Pvt. Daniel Shirer, both students with the U.S. Army Airborne School, board a C-130 aircraft for their first parachute jump with combat equipment on Fort Benning, Ga., July 21, 2009. Wheeler and Shirer are assigned to Company B, 1st Battalion, 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment. U.S. Army photo by Kristin Molinaro
PACIFIC OCEAN (July 30, 2009) During exercise Stellar Avenger, the Aegis-class destroyer USS Hopper (DDG 70) launches a standard missile (SM) 3 Blk IA, successfully intercepting a sub-scale short range ballistic missile, launched from the Kauai Test Facility, Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF), Barking Sans, Kauai. This was the 19th successful intercept in 23 at-sea firings, for the Aegis BMD program, including the February 2008 destruction of a malfunctioning satellite above the earth's atmosphere. (U.S. Navy photo/Released)
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U.S. Air Force Academy Basic Cadet Evan Rowley crawls under barbed wire in the Jacks Valley assault course near Colorado Springs, Colo., July 21, 2009. Basic cadet training started June 25 and continues through Aug. 1, 2009. U.S. Air Force photo by Mike Kaplan
U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Brian Sandau treats an Afghan girl for burns on her leg during a civil affairs patrol with Marines in the Nawa district of Helmand province, Afghanistan, July 17, 2009. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Staff Sgt. William Greeson
Master Sgt. Richard Woods explains the maintenance simulator and shows guides and pamphlets to Afghan Maj. Gen. Mohammad Dawran July 13 at the Air Force Expeditionary Center on Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J. General Dawran, commander of the Afghanistan National Army Air Corps, visited the installation to learn more about the Air Education and Training Command's Air Adviser Course housed at the Expeditionary Center on Fort Dix. Sergeant Woods is the director of the Senior Leaders Maintenance Course. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Nathan G. Bevier)
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Iraqi soldiers eat lunch at their dining facility July 12 at Camp Taji, Iraq. This dining facility is run exclusively by the Iraqi army with some assistance from an American Airman assigned to the Logistics Military Adviser Team. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Michael B. Keller)
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U.S. Army soldiers construct a new helicopter landing pad as the sun rises over the National Training Center in the Mojave Desert, Fort Irwin, Calif., July 21, 2009. The soldiers are combat engineers assigned to the 327th Combat Engineer Company. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Brent Powell
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