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Due to the high volume of questions about the photos in the photo-rotator on the main page, below are the credits:


Airmen from Detachment 7, 732nd Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron says a group prayer before departing on a police transition team mission in down town Baghdad. Det. 7 conducts police transition team operations with Iraqi police units that are assigned areas of Baghdad, Det. 7 Airman provide training and mentorship on police station operations and patrol tactics in order to enable Iraqi Police to take the lead for domestic security and establish a secure environment for Iraqi citizens. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Michael R. Holzworth)


Visit, board, search and seizure (VBSS) team member Engineman 3rd Class Blain Churchill, attached to the guided-missile destroyer USS Preble (DDG 88), drives a rigid hull inflatable boat across the Persian Gulf during an afternoon of Interaction Patrols (IPATS). IPATS are an element of maritime operations and are conducted in Iraqi territorial waters so that commercial shipping and fishing can occur safely in the region. Preble, as part of John C. Stennis Carrier Strike Group, is conducting maritime operations in the Persian Gulf.Photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Ron Reeves


A “No Slack” Soldier from the 2nd Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division takes up an overwatch position in Samarra, Iraq, Dec. 10. The “No Slack” battalion is responsible for the security of the restive city.  US Army Photo by SPC Richard Rzepka.


Pfc. Alexander Cesario of Somerville, N.J., a forward observer with A Company, Special Troops Battalion, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, displays his father Adam's American flag on a rooftop in Baghdad's Suleikh neighborhood, Dec. 27. As a Soldier in Vietnam, the elder Cesario flew the flag every day - including a three day period that he was missing in action -and his son now carries it with him on patrols in Iraq.  Photo by Sergeant Mike Pryor.


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


A U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle aircraft from the 391st Expeditionary Fighter Squadron deploys flares during a flight over Afghanistan on Nov. 12, 2008. The squadron is deployed to Bagram Air Base.   DoD photo by Staff Sgt. Aaron Allmon, U.S. Air Force. (Released)


U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Karl Kish, a chaplain, carries a patient off Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort onto a boat while under way in the Caribbean Sea July 1, 2007. The patient will be transported back to Guatemala after receiving medical care aboard the ship. Comfort is on a four-month humanitarian deployment to Latin America and the Caribbean providing medical treatment to approximately 85,000 patients in a dozen countries. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Joan E. Kretschmer 


UH-60 Black Hawk air ambulance helicopter flies to a medical mission in Baghdad, Iraq, Oct. 7, 2008. The helicopter crew are assigned to “Lonestar” dustoff Company C, 2nd Battalion, 4th Aviation Regiment, Combat Aviation Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, Multi-National Division – Baghdad. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Brent Hunt


U.S. Army Sgt. Daryl Williams takes the oath of enlistment from his hospital bed at the 86th Combat Support Hospital in Baghdad, Iraq, July 9, 2008. Williams is assigned to the Scout/Sniper Platoon, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Combined Arms Battalion, 68th Armor Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Multi-National Division – Baghdad.   U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Zachary Mott.


Pararescueman Staff Sgt. Lopaka Mounts receives a hug from a resident after Hurricane Ike, Sept. 13, 2008. Sergeant Mounts is assigned to the 331st Air Expeditionary Group on Randolph Air Force Base, Texas.
U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. James L. Harper Jr.

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Sgt. Kenneth Labutis, scans the area providing an out cordon near the Zanjaliah village, Iraq, Feb. 1, during Operation Lightning. Operation Lighting is an Iraqi army planned operation looking for weapon caches, personnel of high interest and gathering of intelligence with the help of the U.S. Army Soldiers from Forward Operating Base McHenry, Labutis is from the Delta Company, 2nd Platoon, 2nd Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii. The Iraqi soldier is assigned to the 1st Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 4th Infantry. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Andy Dunaway)


Photo courtesy of Sergeant Jill Stevens, "G.I. Jill" and Miss Utah.


A Utah Army National Guard soldier assigned to the 19th Special Forces is hoisted up to an HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopter during a combat search and rescue exercise over the Utah Test and Training Range in Sandy, Utah, May 3, 2007.   U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Kevin J. Gruenwald.


DOD Courtesy Photo


The Patriot Guard Riders, a group of motorcycle-riding volunteer citizens dedicated to honoring and supporting American troops, escort the motorcade of Individual Augmentees to a welcome-home ceremony at the Naval Support Activity Annapolis, Md., April 29, 2009. Individual Augmentees are sailors who support or “augment” another Navy, Marine Corps or Army command. They usually go to their assignment on temporary orders and return to their current command once they complete their assignment, whic U.S. Navy Photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Patrick Gordon


U.S. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates meets with U.S. Army soldiers at Kabul International Airport, Afghanistan, Sept. 17, 2008. Gates was in Afghanistan to meet with local leaders and receive an operational update. Defense Dept. photo by U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Jerry Morrison