HAMPTON ROADS HANDSHAKE

Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta is greeted by U.S. Senator Mark Warner of Virginia at the Hampton Roads Chamber of Commerce meeting in Norfolk, Va., Oct. 19, 2012. Panetta spoke at the meeting on the effects sequestration would have on defense contract communities like those found in the Norfolk area. DOD photo by Erin A. Kirk-Cuomo

ODIERNO'S KEYNOTE

U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Raymond T. Odierno gives the keynote address at the 10th Annual Conference of Military Reporters and Editors Association Oct. 19, 2012 in Washington, D.C. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Teddy Wade

POW/MIA SEARCH

Navy divers, assigned to Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit 2, Company 4, and the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command, stand with the American flag, and the POW/MIA flag on the wreckage of a B-17 bomber that was shot down and sank during World War II during a dive Oct. 19, 2012. The team is deployed alongside JPAC aboard the USNS Grapple as part of a 30-day underwater recovery mission for an unaccounted-for service member who went missing during the crash. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Martin Carey

SHOW AND TELL

U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Donika Burkett shares a video on her cell phone with children at Escola Wasco La Gama during a community service day held by amphibious transport dock ship USS Green Bay in Manatutu, Timor-Leste, Oct. 14, 2012. The Green Bay is participating in Exercise Crocodilo 2012, a multilateral exercise that promotes partnership through community service and training with the Timor-Leste Defense Force. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Elizabeth Merriam

EMERGENCY EXERCISE

U.S. soldiers load a simulated patient onto an ambulance during an emergency response exercise on Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, Oct. 12, 2012. U.S. Air Force photo by Capt. Raymond Geoffroy

SOLDIER SECURITY

Soldiers provide security while overcoming a ground attack during a joint service field exercise at the Joint Readiness Training Center on Fort Polk, La., Oct. 18, 2012. Service members participating in JRTC 13-01 are educated and evaluated in a simulated combat environment. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Dayton Mitchell

WATER READY

Coast Guardsmen prepare to demonstrate their swimming skills during a public training exercise at the new Rescue Swimmer Training Facility in Elizabeth City, N.C., Oct. 17, 2012. The new building encompasses approximately 50,000-square-feet including a 164-by-82-foot training pool that is 12-feet deep and holds more than one million gallons of water. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Walter Shinn

SURVIVAL SKILLS

U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Bobby Colliton teaches combat survival skills to Staff Sgt. Dane Hatley during exercise Pacific Thunder 2012 near Osan Air Base, South Korea, Oct. 15, 2012. Colliton is a survival evasion resistance and escape specialist assigned to the 18th Operation Support Squadron and Hatley is a flight engineer assigned to the 33rd Rescue Squadron. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Sara Csurilla