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National Security Agency (NSA) Director U.S. Army General Keith Alexander takes his seat to testify before a U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence hearing on recently disclosed NSA surveillance programs, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, June 18, 2013.
Cpl. Jonathan R. Waldman USMC
Japanese Ground Self Defense Force divers leap from a GSDF helicopter during a training exercise off the California coast last week. Troops from all three of Japan’s armed services are training with the U.S. Navy and Marines for amphibious warfare.
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Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is escorted out of a courthouse in Fort Meade, Md., Wednesday, June 5, 2013, after the third day of his court martial. Manning is charged with indirectly aiding the enemy by sending troves of classified material to WikiLeaks. He faces up to life in prison. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Abdalghne Karoof / Reuters
A Free Syrian Army fighter wearing a gas mask, carries his weapons as he walks past a damaged tank, after seizing a government military camp used by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, near Idlib, June 13, 2013.
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Army General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, testifying Wednesday.
MCC Gerard Sekerak / U.S. Navy
Navy Secretary Ray Mabus speaking to sailors during a 2011 sail aboard the USS Wasp, an amphibious assault ship.
Khalil Ashawi / REUTERS
A boy carries a weapon as he walks with members of the Free Syrian Army on a damaged street filled with debris in Deir al-Zor June 12, 2013.
Ahn Young-joon / AP
South Korean army soldiers check a barbed-wire fence in Paju, near the demilitarized zone of Panmunjom, South Korea, April 11, 2013.
Lockheed Martin
A Navy F-35C flies over Maryland's Patuxent River Naval Air Station, where the service tests many warplanes. This carrier variant has larger wing surfaces and reinforced landing gear to withstand catapult launches and deck landings to and from carriers.
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Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, right, is escorted into a courthouse at Fort Mead, Md., for the fourth day of his court martial.
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Army Major General Michael Harrison, center, observes a field exercise with members of the Japan Ground Self Defense Force in November 2010.
Marine photo / Lance Cpl. Tia Dufour
Anybody Home? Critics suggest the Pentagon's leaders must do more to retool the U.S. military.
Andy Wolfe / U.S. Navy
A Navy F-35C takes off for its first night flight, a year ago this week, at Patuxent River Naval Air Station in Maryland.
USMC Cpl. Matthew Manning
All Marines in the Pacific will be issued cards reminding them of values the Corps expects them to uphold.
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Syrian army's soldiers in Qusayr, Syria, on June 5, 2013.
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Army Private First Class Bradley Manning leaving the courthouse in Fort Meade, Maryland June 6, 2012.
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The Marines' CH-53K (in case you were wondering, the "CH" doesn't stand for "cheap").
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Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, center, is escorted into a courthouse in Fort Meade, Md., May 21, 2013, before a pretrial military hearing
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Retired Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal
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Retired U.S. Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass., Monday, March 11, 2013.
Army soldiers patrol Detroit streets after wartime race riots between blacks and whites swept the city, June 1943.
Army soldiers patrol Detroit streets after wartime race riots between blacks and whites swept the city, June 1943.
US Army soldiers brought in to restore order after Detroit race riots read about the unfolding events in the Detroit Free Press, June 1943.
US Army soldiers brought in to restore order after Detroit race riots read about the unfolding events in the Detroit Free Press, June 1943.
US Army soldiers brought in to restore order after riots between blacks and whites swept across Detroit, June 1943.
US Army soldiers brought in to restore order after riots between blacks and whites swept across Detroit, June 1943.
A U.S. Army soldier, one of many brought in to restore order after riots between blacks and whites swept across the city in June 1943.
A U.S. Army soldier, one of many brought in to restore order after riots between blacks and whites swept across the city in June 1943.
African American men rounded up under U.S. Army guard following wartime race riots in Detroit, June 1943.
African American men rounded up under U.S. Army guard following wartime race riots in Detroit, June 1943.
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A Free Syrian Army sniper takes position in a damaged house in Idlib, May 18, 2013.
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Cadets march at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y.
“A dozen tropical shirts are ordered by a young Army lieutenant in the store of the Zenith haberdasher the next evening just before closing time. But the sleeves are too long and will have to be altered. The lieutenant says: ‘If you can’t get them done and delivered to my hotel by 9 o’clock Friday night, never mind the order. I won’t be able to pay for them if I’ve gone when they’re delivered. Understand?’ The haberdasher says he understands. But he muses to himself: ‘Tropical shirts. This young fellow must be headed to Australia.’”
"A dozen tropical shirts are ordered by a young Army lieutenant in the store of the Zenith haberdasher the next evening just before closing time. But the sleeves are too long and will have to be altered. The lieutenant says: 'If you can't get them done and delivered to my hotel by 9 o'clock Friday night, never mind the order. I won't be able to pay for them if I've gone when they're delivered. Understand?' The haberdasher says he understands. But he muses to himself: 'Tropical shirts. This young fellow must be headed to Australia.'"
Playing with “the gang” down the block the next afternoon, Christopher seeks to impress his older friends: “Gee, my dad’s making shirts for almost the whole Army. He sold lots to soldiers going to Australia to fight. He’s working onow so the troopships can sail Friday midnight.”
Playing with "the gang" down the block the next afternoon, Christopher seeks to impress his older friends: "Gee, my dad's making shirts for almost the whole Army. He sold lots to soldiers going to Australia to fight. He's working onow so the troopships can sail Friday midnight."
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TOPSHOTS - AFP EXCLUSIVE Syrian army soldiers inspect a house as they advance in on the village of Western Dumayna, 7 km north of the rebel held city of Qusayr on May 13, 2013. Syrian troops captured three villages in the strategic Qusayr area of Homs province, allowing them to cut supply lines to rebels inside Qusayr town, a military officer told AFP. AFP PHOTO/JOSEPH EIDJOSEPH EID/AFP/Getty Images
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An X-47B Navy drone does a flyby the USS George H.W. Bush after it was launched from the ship off the coast of Virginia, on May 14, 2013.
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Then-Navy Secretary Richard Danzig testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee in 1999.
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Army Command Sgt. Maj. Glen Vela, center, with the 1st Air Cavalry Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, leads Soldiers in rendering honors while Spc. Douglas Livengood, left, sings the national anthem, at the opening of the 18th Annual Blowout concert presented by radio hosts Zack Owen and Jim Cody of WACO 100 FM, at Fort Hood, Texas, Jan. 22, 2011. In the background, cadets from Connally High School's Air Force Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps in Waco, Texas, present the national and state colors. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Richard Wrigley/Released)
Navy photo / MCS 3rd Class Jonathan Sunderman
Ouch: Navy officials survey the damage to the USS Porter following its collision with a Japanese oil tanker Sunday in the Arabian Sea.
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Thursday at the White House, President Obama met with, from left, Army General Ray Odierno, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, Army General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and Vice Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Mark Ferguson, to discuss sexual assault in the military.
Navy photo / MCC Ahron Arendes
Two of the Navy's newest submariners are congratulated in December for qualifying as bubbleheads, the Navy's unofficial, affectionate term for those aboard subs.
Sgt Rachael Moore / U.S. Marines
U.S. Marines direct a French amphibious assault vehicle over a ribbon bridge during a 2012 exercise at Camp Lejeune, N.C.
MCC Sam Shavers / U.S. Navy
Navy Secretary Ray Mabus testifying before Congress.
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The Marines, shown gere at Parris Island, S.C., are the only service that segregate men and women in basic training.
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Osama bin Laden's lair in Abbottabad, Pakistan, shortly after Navy SEALs killed him on the top floor. It has since been demolished.
“The surrender room was SHAEF War Room, lined with operational maps, tables of casualties, supplies, Army strengths, prisoners. Pads, pencils and name plates were at each place.”
"The surrender room was SHAEF War Room, lined with operational maps, tables of casualties, supplies, Army strengths, prisoners. Pads, pencils and name plates were at each place."
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A Japan Coast Guard vessel, right, and and a Chinese surveillance ship, top, follow a Japanese fishing boat near disputed islands called Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China in the East China Sea Tuesday, April 23, 2013. A group of Japanese ultra-nationalists planned Tuesday to approach the islands on several fishing vessels and pleasure boats. The visit adds to risks of confrontation, however, with Chinese vessels circulating in the area.
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This Wednesday, April 24, 2013 photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows two Syrian Army soldiers aiming their weapons, in Otaybah town, east of Damascus, Syria. After five weeks of battle, Syrian government troops captured a strategic town near Damascus, cutting an arms route for rebels trying to topple President Bashar Assad's regime, state media and activists said Thursday.
MCSN Jean Baker
Navy personnel carry a wreath during a memorial service this week for “Deep Sea 129” at Misawa Air Base, Japan. The solemn service is held every year.
Philippine Coast Guard / AP
Members of the Philippine Coast Guard hold a frozen pangolin or scaly anteater on board a Chinese vessel that ran into the Tubbataha coral reef, a UNESCO-designated World Heritage Site, in the southwestern Philippines. Authorities discovered more than 10,000 kilograms (22,000 pounds) of meat from the protected species, inside the Chinese vessel on April 13, 2013.
Shaam News Network / Handout / REUTERS
A Free Syrian Army fighter looks back while pointing his weapon at a police academy as smoke rises during fighting between Free Syrian Army fighters and forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, on the outskirt of Aleppo, March 2, 2013.
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FILE - In this Monday, April 15, 2013 file photo, a South Korean army soldier aims his machine gun during an anti-terrorism drill against possible terrorists' attacks at a subway station in Seoul, South Korea. In his 16 months on the job, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s government has raised fears with unusually aggressive threats against Seoul and Washington, and it’s not clear whether he will be able to pull back, a feat perfected by his late father, considered a master at brinkmanship. The mystery surrounding Kim's intentions has some outsiders predicting nightmare scenarios. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)
Marine Photo / Lance Cpl. Aneshea Yee
Marines at Parris Island, April 2012
Air Force photo / Senior Airman Renae Kleckner
The U.S. military is already using virtual-reality therapy to help troops suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
Associated Press
FILE - In this Sunday, Aug. 26, 2012 file photo, Syrian rebel fighter Tawfiq Hassan, 23, a former butcher, poses for a picture, after returning from fighting against Syrian army forces in Aleppo, at a rebel headquarters in Marea on the outskirts of Aleppo city, Syria. America's Arab allies have dramatically stepped up weapon supplies to Syrian rebels in preparation for a push on the capital Damascus, the main stronghold of President Bashar Assad, officials and Western military experts say, with one official saying airlifts to neighboring Jordan and Turkey have doubled the past month. The U.S. and other Western governments are involved to channel the flow toward more secular fighters, they say. The influx appears to be boosting a rebel drive to seize supply routes from the border with Jordan to Damascus. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen, File)
Caption from LIFE. “Now down to 155 pounds, an attractive Dorothy dances at Navy Ball,” 1954.
Caption from LIFE. "Now down to 155 pounds, an attractive Dorothy dances at Navy Ball," 1954.
FILE - In this April 21, 2010 file image provided by the U.S. Coast Guard, fire boat response crews battle the blazing remnants of the off shore oil rig Deepwater Horizon. British oil company BP said Thursday Nov. 15, 2012 it is in advanced talks with U.S. agencies about settling criminal and other claims from the Gulf of Mexico well blowout two years ago. In a statement, BP said "no final agreement has yet been reached" and that any such deal would still be subject to court approvals. (AP Photo/US Coast Guard, File)
Robert Nickelsberg
An Afghan soldier hands a Soviet flag in solidarity to a departing soldier on the first day of the Soviet army's withdrawal from Afghanistan. May, 1988.
SARMAD AL-SHAMALI / HANDOUT / REUTERS
A Free Syrian Army fighter looks back while pointing his weapon at a police academy as smoke rises during fighting between Free Syrian Army fighters and forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, on the outskirt of Aleppo, March 2.
Sarmad Al-Shamali / HANDOUT / REUTERS
A Free Syrian Army fighter looks back while pointing his weapon at a police academy as smoke rises during fighting between Free Syrian Army fighters and forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, on the outskirt of Aleppo, March 2, 2013.
Surapan Boonthamon / REUTERS
Security personnel investigate around bodies of insurgents at the site of an attack on an army base in the troubled southern province of Narathiwat February 13, 2013. Thai soldiers killed at least 17 Muslim insurgents who attacked a military base in a pre-dawn raid..
Caption from LIFE. “From this blockhouse in face of the ridge overlooking the Marines’ beachhead, 4.7-inch gun and dead Jap (left) shelled everything that moved. This, like others, had to be taken by Marines in person with grenades, flame throwers, satchel charges, sometimes at cost of a whole company.”
Caption from LIFE. "From this blockhouse in face of the ridge overlooking the Marines' beachhead, 4.7-inch gun and dead Jap (left) shelled everything that moved. This, like others, had to be taken by Marines in person with grenades, flame throwers, satchel charges, sometimes at cost of a whole company."
PAUL McCONELL / US COAST GUARD / EPA
A Coast Guard Aviation Training Center Mobile MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew delivers approximately 3,000 pounds of equipment, which included a generator and electrical cables, from the offshore supply vessel Lana Rose to the Carnival Cruise Ship Triumph in the Gulf of Mexico on Feb. 13, 2013.
Goran Tomasevic / REUTERS
A Free Syrian Army fighter throws a hand grenade inside a Syrian Army base during heavy fighting in the Arabeen neighbourhood of Damascus, Feb. 3, 2013.
AP / U.S. Coast Guard- Lt. Cmdr. Paul McConnell
A small boat belonging to the Coast Guard Cutter Vigorous patrols near the cruise ship Carnival Triumph in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Navy Woes: here is the USS Guardian, on the rocks. For the commanders of the USS Vandergrift last fall in Vladivostok, the problem was vodka on the rocks.
U.S. Department of Justice / REUTERS
A scale model of a U.S. Navy F-86 Sabre fighter plane, similar to a device constructed by Massachusetts resident Rezwan Ferdaus, 26, who was accused of plotting attacks on the U.S. Pentagon and Capitol by using a remote-controlled aircraft filled with plastic explosives. The pictured aircraft, from a photo released by the U.S. Justice Department, is not the device constructed by the defendant.
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An Italian coast-guard boat carrying migrants of an undetermined nationality heads to the island port in Lampedusa, Italy, on Aug. 24, 2011
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In this handout photo provided by the U.S. Navy, Lt. j.g. Luke Leveque, assigned to the Gold crew of the ballistic missile submarine USS Maryland (SSBN 738), pins the submarine officer warfare device on his wife, Lt. j.g. Marquette Leveque, assigned to the Gold crew of the ballistic missile submarine USS Wyoming (SSBN 742), at Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay on December 5, 2012 in Kings Bay, Georgia. Leveque is one of three Sailors to become the first female unrestricted line officers to qualify in submarines.
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Dust kicks off the ground during an operation by US Army soldiers attached to the 2nd platoon, C-Coy. 1-23 Infantry after charges are fired by for safe detonation of IED's on Sept. 23, 2012 in Panjwai district, Afghanistan.
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Dust kicks off the ground during an operation by US Army soldiers attached to the 2nd platoon, C-Coy. 1-23 Infantry after charges are fired by for safe detonation of IED's on Sept. 23, 2012 in Panjwai district, Afghanistan.
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This aerial image provided by the U.S. Coast Guard shows the Royal Dutch Shell drilling rig Kulluk aground off a small island near Kodiak Island Tuesday Jan. 1, 2013.
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This image provided by the U.S. Coast Guard shows the Royal Dutch Shell drilling rig Kulluk aground off a small island near Kodiak Island Tuesday Jan. 1, 2013.
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Army General Norman Schwarzkopf briefs the press on the war's progress. Jan. 30, 1991, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
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This undated photo provided by the U.S. Navy shows Cdr. Job W. Price. U.S. military officials are investigating the apparent suicide of Price, 42, of Pottstown, Pa., who died Saturday of a non-combat-related injury while supporting stability operations in Uruzgan Province, Afghanistan.
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Army veteran Brenda S. “Sue” Fulton, left, a U.S. Military Academy graduate, marries Penelope Dara Gnesin at the Cadet Chapel at West Point on Dec. 1.
A soldier from the U.S. Army's Charlie Company, 1-12 Infantry, 4th Brigade, 4th Infantry Division does chin-ups at Observation Post Mustang in Afghanistan's Kunar Province June 4, 2012. REUTERS/Tim Wimborne (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT MILITARY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)
Army Photo / Master Sgt. Kap Kim
Army Sgt. Maria Rodriguez (left) and Spc. Mellanie Harber talk to Marine General John Allen, the top U.S. and allied commander in Afghanistan, in Ghanzi province in April.
In this courtroom sketch, Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, center, describes a layout of his pretrial confinement cell in a Quantico, Va., Marine Corps brig while testifying at a pretrial hearing in Fort Meade, Md. on Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012. Military Judge, Col. Denise Lind, is at top left, and Manning's defense attorney David Coombs, is at second from left. (AP Photo/William Hennessy) NO TV, NO ARCHIVE, NO SALES, LOCALS OUT
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This undated file photo provided by the U.S. Army shows Brig. Gen. Jeffrey A. Sinclair, who served five combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and has been charged with forcible sodomy, multiple counts of adultery and having inappropriate relationships with several female subordinates.
Lois Silver / AP Photo
In this detail of a courtroom sketch, U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, seated at front-right, listens Monday, Nov. 5, 2012, during a preliminary hearing in a military courtroom at Joint Base Lewis McChord in Washington state.
Ted S. Warren / AP Photo
A soldier walks outside the building housing a military courtroom on Joint Base Lewis McChord in Washington state, where a preliminary hearing was expected to conclude Tuesday Nov. 13, 2012, for U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales.
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Free Syrian Army fighters carry a civilian away from the line-of-fire after he was shot twice, in his stomach and back, by a Syrian army sniper while walking near the frontline in the Bustan al-Qasr neighborhood of Aleppo, Oct. 20, 2012.
DoD photo / MCS 1st Class Chad J. McNeeley
Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, with his wife Holly, gives the thumbs-up at his Army retirement ceremony on August 31, 2011, just outside Washington, D.C.
Marine photo / SSgt. Ezekiel R. Kitandwe
A Navy volunteer refreshes competitors at mile marker six of the Marine Corps Marathon Forward -- at Camp Leatherneck in Helmand province -- Oct. 28. The 26.2-mile marathon is paired with the 37th annual Marine Corps Marathon held in Washington D.C., some 7,000 miles away. It has been held at Camp Leatherneck since 2009.
Air Force photo / Raymond McCoy
The Air Force Falcons beat the Army Black Knights in last year's matchup, 24-14. The two service academies will clash again on Saturday.
DoD photo / MCS 1st Class Mark O'Donald, U.S. Navy
The U.S. military plays more of a ceremonial role during inaugurations, like 2009's, than its veterans do in the nation's legislative or executive branches.
Navy photo / Petty Officer 2nd Class Martin Carey
Navy divers assigned to Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit 2, Company 4, and the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command, stand Oct. 19 with the American flag, and the POW/MIA flag, on the wreckage of a B-17 bomber that was shot down and sank during World War II. The team is deployed alongside JPAC aboard the USNS Grapple (T-ARS 53) as part of a 30-day underwater recovery mission for an unaccounted-for service member who went missing during the crash into the Mediterranean Sea.
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Free Syrian Army rebels take over the Bab al-Hawa border crossing between Syria and Turkey, in the restive northwestern Idlib province, July 19, 2012. Rebels seized control of a crossing on the border with neighbouring Turkey as well as all crossings with Iraq.
Navy workers cross the boundary line on the floor from “contaminated” to “clean” after scrubbing off radioactive dirt, Navy contamination center, 1946.
Navy workers cross the boundary line on the floor from "contaminated" to "clean" after scrubbing off radioactive dirt, Navy contamination center, 1946.
Army photo / Staff Sgt. Brendan Mackie
U.S. Army Cpl. B.J. Buie, foreground, an infantryman with the 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, digs a machine-gun position during Operation Southern Fist in the Spin Boldak district of Kandahar province on Sept. 29.
Marine photo / Cpl. Aaron Diamant
Marine Lance Corporal Sam Enriquez, and his K-9 partner, Kally, as seen through a night-vision device, train on the Inter-service Advanced Skills K-9 course, at the U.S. Army's Yuma Proving Ground, Yuma, Ariz., on Sept. 25.
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Army soldiers attached to the 2nd platoon, C-Coy. 1-23 Infantry based at Zangabad foward operating base in Panjwai district are silhouetted in a dust cloud after detonating Anti Personell Obstacle Breaching System during a dawn operation at Naja-bien village on Sept. 23, 2012.
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An Army MRAP after meeting an IED in Afghanistan last year. No one inside was wounded.
Army photo / Sgt. Michael J. MacLeod
A U.S. Army Captain with the 82nd Airborne Division, left, talks strategy with some of his Afghan National Army comrades in June in Ghanzi province.
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A member of the Free Syrian Army poses in the old city of Homs September 28, 2012. Picture taken September 28, 2012.
Air Force photo / Staff Sgt. Jonathan Lovelady
Army Staff Sgt. James Bates, a security force squad leader with Provincial Reconstruction Team Farah, pulls security at a landing zone Sept. 26. Behind him, his team loads a tactical vehicle into the cargo bay of a CH-47 Chinook helicopter in Pur Chaman district, Farah province. The mission marks the first time coalition forces have been to the Pur Chaman district in western Afghanistan in more than a year.
Army photo / Spc. Sergio Rangel
U.S. Army troops from the 10th Mountain Division in northern Iraq in May, 2003, just as the Army's suicide rate began climbing.
Air Force photo / Staff Sgt. Jonathan Lovelady
U.S. Army Cpl. Daniel Thornton, assigned to Provincial Reconstruction Team Farah, pulls security during a visit to an Afghan government official in Farah City, Farah province, Sept. 25.
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A Japan Coast Guard patrol boat, top, exchanges blasts from water cannons with a Taiwan Coast Guard vessels during a protest in Japan-controlled waters near the disputed Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea this week.
Navy photo / Lt. Benjamin Addison
U.S. Army National Guard Staff Sgt. James Bates pulls guard duty as members of his civil-military Provincial Reconstruction Team Farah meet with local leaders in Farah City Sept. 22.
Assistant Secretary of the Army for Manpower and Reserve Affairs Thomas Lamont, left, and Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Marketing Mark Davis cut a ribbon Monday making the Army Marketing and Research Group fully operational.
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Dust kicks off the ground during an operation by US Army soldiers attached to the 2nd platoon, C-Coy. 1-23 Infantry based at Zangabad foward operating base in Panjwai ditrict after Anti Personnel Obstacle Breaching System -- abbreviated as A-POBS (charges fired by rocket and trigger safe detonation of IED's used to make roadside bombs) -- detonate on a nearby road during a dawn operation at Naja-bien village on Sept. 23, 2012.
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A Japan Coast Guard patrol ship (L) fires water cannon towards a Taiwanese fish boat, trying to make them leave from the area on Sept. 25, 2012 in Ishigaki, Okinawa, Japan
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