HEARTBEAT

U.S. Army Sgt. Heather Blake listens to the heartbeat of a small boy at the free clinic at Bagram Airfield’s Korean Hospital Afghanistan, Jan. 29, 2011. Blake, a medic is assigned to Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force – Afghanistan. The event included medical personnel from Afghanistan, Korea, United Arab Emirates, the International Security Assistance Force, who treated more than 200 patients. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Katryn McCalment

STRATOTANKER REFUELING

An F-15E Strike Eagle is refueled by a KC-135 Stratotanker, Jan. 14, 2011, above Afghanistan, in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Adrian Cadiz

MOKAPU POINT DIVE

U.S. Air Force pararescuemen and Navy SEALs leap from the ramp of an Air Force C-17 transport aircraft during free-fall parachute training over Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Jan. 21, 2011. The airmen are assigned to 103rd Rescue Squadron, 106th Rescue Wing, New York Air National Guard, and Navy SEALs West Coast-based. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Reece E. Lodder

FIREFIGHTING DRILL

U.S. Marines conduct a mass casualty drill to practice responding to an artillery strike on Camp Dwyer in Afghanistan's Helmand province, Jan. 27, 2011. The firefighting and aircraft rescue Marines are assigned to Marine Wing Support Squadron 373, Camp Dwyer detachment. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Jesse Stence

EOD ROBOT

Members of NATO reserve force interact with an explosive ordnance disposal manned transportable robot , Jan. 28, 2011, during a tour of Navy Expeditionary Combat Command. The NATO personnel visited the command to meet with sailors from the expeditionary community and see how the command incorporates reservists into the expeditionary force. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Paul D. Williams

PIPE WORK

Fireman Andrew Beagles welds shelves in the pipe shop aboard the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush, Jan. 27, 2011. George H.W. Bush is underway in the Atlantic Ocean conducting a composite training unit exercise. U.S. Navy photo by Seaman Tyrell K. Morris

AIR FORCE CHIEF

Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz speaks at the Reserve Officers Association National Security Symposium Jan. 30, 2011, in Washington, D.C. Schwartz discussed the importance of total force collaboration during today's intense budgetary pressures. U.S. Air Force photo by Scott M. Ash

$17 MILLION FOR CHARITY

Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III presents a check for $17,200,000.00 to Rene Acosta, president and CEO of Global Impact, the firm that manages the Combined Federal Campaign, at the annual Combined Federal Campaign awards ceremony at the Pentagon on Jan. 31, 2011. Even in these difficult economic times, Lynn said, the Department of Defense came through for the over 4,000 charities represented in the CFC. DOD photo by R. D. Ward