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A Shot in the Dark
Soldiers fire 155mm rounds using an M777 Howitzer at FOB Bostick, Afghanistan.
The Soldiers were registering targets earlier this month so they will have a more accurate and faster response time when providing fire support.
(Photo by U.S. Army Spc. Evan D. Marcy, 55th Signal Company)
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Afghan Mission
A U.S Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II conducts a combat mission over Afghanistan June 14.
The aircraft is based out of Bagram Air Base.(U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Jason Robertson)
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Pakistan Aid
U.S. Ambassador Anne W. Patterson hands a halal meal to Lt. Gen. Nadeem Ahmed.
The meal is one of more than 120,000 halal meals destined for internally displaced persons in Pakistan. The humanitarian aid supplies arrived at the Chaklala Air Base near Islamabad Wednesday in response to an appeal for urgently needed food, shelter and other basic needs for displaced persons in the North West Frontier Province.
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Jordan Agreement
CENTCOM's Maj. Gen. Kenneth Dowd signs an agreement with the Jordanian military April 22.
Maj. Gen. Dowd, CENTCOM Director of Logistics, and Maj. Gen. Mashal al'Zeban, Jordan's chief of staff for strategic planning, sign the US-Jordan Technical Arrangement, which will support the drawdown of U.S. forces through the continued use of Jordan's lines of communication.
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Kansas Speech
Gen. David Petraeus speaks to an audience at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kan.
The CENTCOM commander's April 27 speech was part of the university's Landon Lecture Series.
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Learning to Shoot
An Iraqi police recruit looks down the sights of her rifle during weapons training.
She is one of several female recruits in basic training at the Iraqi Police Academy in Karbala, Iraq.
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IED Training
Iraqi soldiers train to avoid improvised explosive devices.
A small training charge is detonated as Iraqi soldiers from the 8th Division, Iraqi Army, drive through the improvised explosive device lane during reaction-to-IED drills on Camp Diwaniyah, Iraq, March 24. A small explosive is used to provide realism in the soldiers' training.
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Afghan Ridge Recon
U.S. Army 1st Lt. Jared Tomberlin, left, and an interpreter pull security on top of a mountain ridge.
The photo was taken during a reconnaissance mission near Forward Operating Base Lane in Zabul province, Afghanistan, Feb. 28. Tomberlin is assigned to Company B, 1st Battalion, 4th Infantry Regiment.
U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Adam Mancini
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Fallen Americans honored
Three U.S. soldiers who lost their lives were honored recently by the Romanian military.
Lt. Gen. Teodor Frunzeti, PhD, Chief of Staff of Romanian Land Forces (ROULF) awarded post mortem, in a ceremony held on Jan. 16 at ROULF HQ in Bucharest, three U.S. Army soldiers who lost their lives in Afghanistan.
Chief of Staff of ROULF conferred the Emblem of Honor of Land Forces to Maj. Brian Michael Mescall, and the Emblem of Merit “In Service of Peace” 3rd Class to Sgt. Jason Ray Parsons and Cpl. Joseph Michael Hernandez, “in appreciation to the esprit de corps, courage and priceless supreme sacrifice proven and dedicated together with the Romanian Land Forces’ comrades in arms in the war against terror in Afghanistan.”
The three awarded soldiers were killed in an incident on Jan. 9, 2009, when ROULF Lt. Col. Augustin Nicuşor Pegulescu was injured.
“By conferring these awards, we want to express our deep respect and consideration for the supreme sacrifice made by the three soldiers in the name of freedom. As American and Romanian soldiers of Land Forces train and fight together, we also honor our heroes together,” said Lt. Gen. Frunzeti.
The awards were handed over to Ms. Jeri Guthrie-Corn, the Chargé d'Affaires of the U.S. Embassy in Bucharest, to be sent to the families.
The ceremony was also attended by Col. Kevin Leek, Chief, Office of Defense Cooperation, Lt. Col Taft Blackburn, Defense Attaché for Army, and other ROULF generals and officers.
Lt. Col. Augustin Nicuşor Pegulescu is currently listed as stable, being treated at the U.S. military hospital in Ramstein, Germany.
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