Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Carries the torch

Army Sgt. Robert Price carries the torch for the first Warrior Games into the Olympic Training Center at Colorado Springs, Colo., during the games' opening ceremony May 10, 2010. Price lost his right leg below the knee to a roadside bomb in Iraq but remains on active duty, serving as a cadre member at the warrior transition battalion at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio.       (U.S. Army photo by Master Sgt. Doug Sample) 

Spirit and Target

Air Force Staff Sgt. Richard Pollock II plays basketball at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo., May 10, 2010. Pollock is a member of the Air Force team participating in the inaugural Warrior Games. 


















U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Desiree N. Palacios 

Conducting a dismounted patrol

U.S. Soldiers conduct a dismounted patrol through a creek in the village of Babus in the Pol-e’Alam district of Afghanistan May 7, 2010. (DoD photo by Spc. De'Yonte Mosley, U.S. Army/Released)

President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai shakes hands with U.S

President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai shakes hands with U.S. Airmen at the Staff Sgt. Heath N. Craig Joint Theater Hospital on Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, May 8, 2010. Karzai is visiting the facility before leaving on a trip to the United States to meet with President Barack Obama. During the visit, Karzai met with wounded Afghan and U.S. service members and spoke with personnel stationed at the hospital. (DoD photo by Staff Sgt. Susan Wilt, U.S. Army/Released)