Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Stephen Caple deflects a shot.jpg

U.S. Air Force Academy Cadet Stephen Caple deflects a shot during a exhibition game between the academy’s hockey team, the Falcons, and the University of Lethbridge’s Pronghorns at Cadet Ice Arena at the academy in Colorado Oct. 4, 2010. Caple, a sophomore and the team’s goalkeeper, made seven saves while allowing three goals as the Falcons defeated the Pronghorns 4-3 in overtime. 
(DoD photo by Mike Kaplan, U.S. Air Force/Released)

The prosthetic legs

The prosthetic legs of a Paralympic Military Sports Camp participant frame U.S. Navy volunteers at Balboa Naval Medical Center in San Diego, Calif., Oct. 5, 2010. Paralympic Military Sports Camps are multi-day events designed to introduce veterans and military personnel with physical injuries to summer and winter sport opportunities. (DoD photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Travis K. Mendoza, U.S. Navy/Released)

Live-fire exercise

 U.S. Soldiers assigned to the 18th Combat Sustainment Support Brigade perform a platoon mounted and dismounted live-fire exercise at Grafenwoehr Training Area in Germany Oct. 6, 2010. (DoD photo by Gertrud Zach, U.S. Army/Released)

Practice marching

U.S. Airmen from the 451st Air Expeditionary Wing honor guard team and Afghan airmen practice marching at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, Oct. 3, 2010. The team was preparing the Afghan airmen to perform during a ceremony marking the one year anniversary of Kandahar Air Wing. (DoD photo by Tech. Sgt. Chad Chisholm, U.S. Air Force/Released)

During weapons qualification training

U.S. Navy Seabees from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 40 fire M-4 and M-16A2 rifles during weapons qualification training near Camp Mike Spann, Afghanistan, Oct. 1, 2010. (DoD photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Michael B. Watkins, U.S. Navy/Released)

Fires a mortar

A U.S. Soldier from Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 4th Infantry Regiment fires a mortar during an area reconnaissance mission near Highway 1 in the Zabul province of Afghanistan Oct. 1, 2010. 






















(DoD photo by Spc. Joshua Grenier, U.S. Army/Released)