U.S. Army Cpls. Levi Day, foreground, and Stanley Piecuch, both Security Forces members from the Kunar Provincial Reconstruction Team, make their way down a set of stairs in the city of Asadabad in the eastern Kunar province of Afghanistan March 29, 2010. The team is performing a routine foot patrol through the city to inspect past and possible future locations for PRT projects in the area. (DoD photo by Senior Airman Nathan Lipscomb, U.S. Air Force/Released)
Members of a visit, board, search and seizure team from the guided-missile destroyer USS McFaul (DDG 74) inspect the Indian-flagged vessel Faize Osamani off the coast of Oman April 5, 2010. The vessel is a suspected pirate mothership accused of firing small arms and rocket-propelled grenades at the motor vessel Rising Sun. The Sailors took ten suspected pirates into custody and rescued eight crewmembers that had escaped from the dhow. McFaul is supporting maritime security operations and theater security cooperation operations in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility. (DoD photo courtesy of the U.S. Navy/Released)
U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Gennifer Sauter, a debts remissions branch chief with the Air Force Financial Service Center, looks through a phoropter during her pre-retirement eye exam at Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D., April 7, 2010. (DoD photo by Airman 1st Class Joshua J. Seybert, U.S. Air Force/Released)
U.S. Marines assigned to a Security Cooperation Marine Air-Ground Task Force disembark from Landing Craft Utility 1660 assigned to Assault Craft Unit 2 in Guereo, Senegal, April 6, 2010, during an offload of U.S, Spanish, Portuguese and British marines and Seabees assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 7. The service members will be working with the Senegalese army as part of Africa Partnership Station West, an international initiative developed by U.S. Naval Forces Europe/Africa to work on improving maritime safety and security on the African continent. (DoD photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Martine Cuaron, U.S. Navy/Released)
U.S. Soldiers prepare for their next fire mission at Forward Operating Base Bostick, Afghanistan, March 30, 2010. The Soldiers are from Bravo Company, 3rd Battalion, 321st Field Artillery Regiment, 18th Fires Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division. (DoD photo by Sgt. Corey Idleburg, U.S. Army/Released)
Jim Thoreson, the chief deputy of the Cass County Sherriff's Department, helps Mili Sherman up a ladder and into a quick response force vehicle from the North Dakota National Guard March 22, 2010, in Cass County, North Dakota. Thoreson and members of a quick response force team are assisting Sherman as she temporarily vacates her home due to the floodwater covering the road to her home. (DoD photo by Senior Master Sgt. David H. Lipp, U.S. Air Force/Released)
The amphibious dock landing ship USS Pearl Harbor (LSD 51) transits the coast of Southern California March 20, 2010, while conducting a composite training unit exercise in preparation for a deployment. (DoD photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Michael Russell, U.S. Navy/Released)
