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A mortar team from 3rd Battalion, 116th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Division, dig fighting positions while on patrol in Ghazni Province, Afghanistan. Photo by Joseph Collins Jr.



Persian Gulf (June 9, 2005) - A landing signalman enlisted (LSE) guides the pilots of an SH-60F Seahawk helicopter assigned to the "Eightballers" of Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron Eight (HS-8) safely aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70). The Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group is currently deployed to the Persian Gulf conducting operations in support of multi-national forces in Iraq and maritime security operations in order to set the conditions for security and stability in the region. Vinson will end its deployment with a homeport shift to Norfolk, Va., and commence a three-year refuel and complex over haul.
U.S. Navy Photo by Photographer's Mate 3rd Class Dusty Howell



Inspecting the 'hole' aircraft
SOUTHWEST ASIA -- Staff Sgt. Emily Frances climbs through the top access hatch of an EC-130H Compass Call at a forward-deployed location to inspect the top surface of the aircraft for leaks and damage. She is an integrated flight controls specialist with the 43rd Expeditionary Electronic Combat Squadron and is deployed from Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz. more



Rex, a three-year-old Belgium Malonois, smells for explosive residual in and around parked Iraqi cars at a vehicle checkpoint here. His handler, 21-year-old Lance Cpl. Marshall S. Spring from Ashland, Oregon, a military dog handler with Operation Force Protection, I Marine Expeditionary Force, escorts Rex during the search while an Iraqi Security Force Commando stands guard. Sergeant Christopher L. Olinger, Air Force Tech Sgt. Robert P. Hansen and Spring, military dog handlers and their canines, Jack, Nero and Rex, can be seen searching vehicles at the three vehicle check points just outside the Hurricane Point camp's perimeter. The six are here supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom while attached to 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment. They each do between 40 and 50 random searches a day in an effort to detect and stop improvised explosive devices and vehicle born IEDs from being delivered and doing harm. They are the Marine Corps' first line of defense against insurgents bringing explosives and materials to make explosives into the southern part of the city.
Photo by: Cpl. Tom Sloan
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PORT OF INCHEON, So. Korea (June 3, 2005)--The USCGC Jarvis is led to its berth by a Korea pilot vessel. Jarvis is spending the week here to conduct exercises with the Korea Coast Guard as part of a bilateral agreement between the two nations. USCG Photo by PA1 Amy Thomas.