U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Raul Barrios guides an F/A-18C Hornet aircraft from Strike Fighter Squadron 125 onto catapult one aboard the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis in the Pacific Ocean, Sept. 19, 2009. The Stennis is under way conducting fleet replacement squadron carrier qualifications off the coast of Southern California. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Walter M. Wayman
A U.S. Air Force F-16 Aggressor aircraft flies over the Joint Pacific Alaskan Range Complex near Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, Sept. 14, 2009. The F-16 is assigned to the 18th Aggressor Squadron, which is responsible for training and preparing joint and allied aircrews for combat missions. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Christopher Boitz
U.S. Coast Guard Maritime Safety and Security Team 91114 personnel overlook the Coast Guard Cutters Diamondback and Gannet near downtown Miami, Sept. 17, 2009. The Maritime Safety and Security Team crewmembers conducted a vertical insertion demonstration for members of the Joint Civilian Orientation Conference who were watching from the cutters. Coast Guard photo/Petty Officer 3rd Class Nick Ameen
U.S. Army Pvt. Matthew Benzing and Pfc. Joshua Rouse (left) from Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 4th Infantry Regiment, U.S. Army Europe conduct security over watch during a reconnaissance patrol near Forward Operating Base Mizan, in Zabul province, Afghanistan, on Sept. 12, 2009. DoD photo by Sgt. Kris Eglin, U.S. Army. (Released)
U.S. Army Sgt. Joe Minoie welds a security door on Forward Operating Base Falcon, Iraq, Sept. 19, 2009. Minoie is a mechanic assigned to Headquarters Company, 30th Heavy Brigade Combat Team. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Robert Jordan
U.S. Army Spc. Seth Mulcahy, left, along with Spc. Robert Mason, right, and Spc. Richard McNulty, center, load a 155 mm howitzer on Camp Wright, Afghanistan, Sept. 23, 2009. Mulcahy, Mason and McNulty are assigned to Battery C, 1st Battalion, 321 Airborne Field Artillery Regiment. The team fired the weapon as part of a registry exercise where targets are pre-marked to increase speed and accuracy. U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Brian Boisvert
PITTSBURGH - U.S. Coast Guard Seamen Erik Dahl and Adam Peers position for setting a buoy along the Allegheny River, Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2009. The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Osage set the buoys early Wednesday morning to give mariners a visual boundary of the Maritime Security Zone established along the Allegheny, Ohio and Monongahela rivers in support of the Pittsburgh Summit. (Coast Guard photo/Petty Officer 3rd Class Casey J. Ranel)
U.S. Sailors aboard the amphibious dock landing ship USS Tortuga (LSD 46) load a RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM) system during an ammunition onload off the coast of Sasebo, Japan, Sept. 24, 2009. Tortuga is part of the USS Denver Amphibious Task Group, which is under way for fall patrol and is scheduled to participate in three bilateral exercises throughout the western Pacific Ocean with allied nations. (DoD photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Geronimo Aquino, U.S. Navy/Released)
SASEBO, Japan (Sept. 23, 2009) Landing Craft, Air Cushion (LCAC) 58 assigned to Assault Craft Unit (ACU) 5 the well deck of the amphibious dock landing ship USS Harpers Ferry (LSD 49) in preparation for a scheduled fall patrol. Harpers Ferry expects to participate in three bilateral exercises throughout the western Pacific with allied nations during the patrol. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Joshua J. Wahl (Released)
FORWARD OPERATING BASE SALERNO, Afghanistan -- Pfc. Michael Gibson, an infantryman with 1st Platoon, Company C, 3rd Battalion, 509th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, gives an IV to 1st Platoon's combat medic, Spc. Vincent Salinas, during a demonstration for Afghan National Army Soldiers and Border Policemen, Sept. 19, at Forward Operating Base Curry, Paktika province, eastern Afghanistan. (Photo by U.S. Pfc. Andrya Hill, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division Public Affairs)
Abul Azariq Muhammad, left, Iraq project manager for al Zaquri Group, discusses opening preparations for Basra City’s newest market with Army Staff Sgt. Hugo Rivera, with the 17th Fires Brigade’s civil liaison team, while another official looks on. U.S. Army photo by Spc. Maurice A. Galloway
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Two Turkish F-16s fly alongside a U.S. Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker over the North Sea during a refueling mission Sept. 23, 2009, in support of Exercise Bold Avenger 2009 held at Karup Air Base, Denmark. The KC-135 from Royal Air Force Mildenhall, England, refueled 18 F-16s from allied air forces, delivering more than 99,000 pounds of jet fuel. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Thomas Trower)
C-17 Globemaster III crew members perform a pre-flight check before participating in a logistics movement exercise recently at Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo.
Airmen participate in these exercises every three to four months to keep their skills sharp for real world missions.
Konar Provincial Reconstruction Team engineers take an aerial photo of a road construction project between Nawabad and Khas Kunar in Afghanistan's Konar province Sept. 20, 2009. U.S. Air Force photo
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