SMALL TALK — A U.S. Marine with Regimental Combat Team 6 talks with a group of children in their apartment complex while members of the Iraqi police and neighborhood watch give food bags to families in Fallujah, Iraq, Sept. 7, 2007. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Samuel D. Corum
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09/12/2007 Afternoon Tea U.S. Air Force Capt. Heather Kekic (right) holds out some shawls as gifts to invited Afghan women during an afternoon tea, at Forward Operating Base Mehtar Lam, Sept. 5, 2007. Female airmen and soldiers assigned to the Laghman Provincial Reconstruction Team hosted the tea for influential Afghan women living throughout Afghanistan’s Laghman province. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Julie Weckerlein

09/12/2007 Remembering 9/11 Capt. John Heckmann, Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Arcenet Vazquez and Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Eric Davenport present a wreath in remembrance of the sixth anniversary of Sept. 11 at Camp Lemonier, Djibouti. The wreath presentation was one of the events sponsored by the Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa 2008 Navy chief selectees. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Regina L. Brown

09/11/2007 Remembering 9/11 Combined Joint Task Force-82 servicemembers salute during the 9/11 ceremony at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, Sept. 11, 2007. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Timothy Dinneen | Story |

09/11/2007 Police Training Afghan National Police Capt. Muhammad Ajan shows the proper reporting procedures to Afghan National Auxiliary Police trainees during drill practice at Forward Operating Base Mehtar Lam, Afghanistan, Sept. 3, 2007. U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Jim Varhegyi

09/11/2007 Rock Hammer A 60mm mortar team, Spc. Carl Snow, Sgt. Matthew Gosselin and Sgt. Armando Gonzalez, from the 1st Battalion, 38th Infantry Regiment, 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, in action during Operation Rock Hammer, south of Baqouba, Iraq, Sept. 7, 2007. Rock Hammer, conducted in farmland and palm groves on the Diyala River, resulted in the discovery of 11 al Qaeda in Iraq weapons caches. U.S. Army photo by 1st Lt. Richard Ybarra

09/10/2007 Djibouti School Schoolchildren welcome dignitaries to a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Goubetto primary school in the village of Balbala, Djibouti, Africa, Sept. 6, 2007. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Brandon McCarty | Story |

09/10/2007 Strong Man Sgt. Lester Peterson with 1st Battalion, 12th Marine Regiment, Task Force Military Police, reaches deep down inside for everything he has to hold two ATVs during the Hercules Hold event of the Al Asad (Iraq) Strongman Competition, Aug. 12, 2007. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Anthony Guas | Story |

09/07/2007 Clearing Ops Staff Sgt. Cesar M. Andrade, platoon sergeant for 2nd Platoon, Company C, 1st Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 6, yells out commands as he and his Marines raid an abandoned school during Operation Street Sweeper II, Saqlawiyah, Iraq, Aug. 28-30, to rid the area of the insurgency and its deadly tools. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Bryce Muhlenberg | Story |

09/07/2007 Home Again U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Lorry Tascione greets her sons Vincent and Caleb, Sept. 3, 2007, at Charleston Air Force Base, S.C., after a deployment to Southwest Asia. U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Nicholas Pilch | More Photos |

09/07/2007 Operation K Army Maj. Ralph Archetti, and his Iraqi counterparts, observe the 1st Brigade “Scorpions,” 5th Iraqi Army Division, in action during Operation “K.” Iraqi army, Iraqi police and concerned local nationals combined efforts to conduct a raid against a suspected al-Qaeda in Iraq stronghold southeast of Skook, Sept. 2. Photo provided by Multi-National Forces Iraq Public Affairs | Story |

09/06/2007 Examining Evidence A Military Post-blast Investigative Course student and course instructor from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms office look over evidence collected during a Military Post-blast Investigative Course field exercise at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, Aug. 30, 2007. U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Dilia Degrego

09/06/2007 Neighborhood Watch An Iraqi Police Neighborhood Watch recruit walks past as the recruits simulate a patrol during class in Fallujah, Iraq, Aug. 24, 2007. Neighborhood Watch recruits are locals who are trained by U.S. Marines to keep their neighborhoods safe from insurgent activities. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Joseph A. Lambach

09/06/2007 Pace Visits Fallujah Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Marine Gen. Peter Pace meets with U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Devine in Fallujah, Iraq, Sept. 4, 2007. Defense Dept. photo by U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. D. Myles Cullen | Story |

09/05/2007 Town Assessment A U.S. Army soldier from Echo Company, 96th Civil Affairs Battalion, talks with an operator from the Mushahidah Water Treatment Plant in Iraq, Aug. 1, 2007. Soldiers from Echo Company are conducting town assessments to gauge the needs and level of leadership in the area. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Summer M. Anderson

09/05/2007 Heading Out U.S. Army Sgt. Steven Sadler takes one last look before climbing into the back of an M2 Bradley Fighting Vehicle after providing security for a meeting at a rundown Iraqi National Police station near Ja’ara, Iraq, Aug. 31, 2007. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Timothy Kingston

09/05/2007 IED Search U.S. Marines look for improvised explosive devices during a patrol in Saqlawiyah, Iraq, Aug. 28, 2007. The Marines are with 1st Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment and the 2nd Combat Engineer Battalion. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Neill A. Sevelius

09/04/2007 Volleyball Unites Airmen and soldiers from the Provincial Reconstruction Team host a volleyball game for Afghan high school students invited from the province’s five districts Aug. 26 at Forward Operating Base Mehtar Lam, located in Afghanistan’s Laghman Province. U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Jim Varhegyi

09/04/2007 Pace In Afghanistan Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff U.S. Marine Gen. Peter Pace, speaks to U.S. servicemembers at Forward Operating Base Sharona, Afghanistan, Sept. 2, during his final visit to the Operation Enduring Freedom area of operation before his retirement later this month. U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Dilia DeGrego | More Photos |

09/04/2007 Surprise Visit U.S. servicemembers gather around President George W. Bush during a visit to Al Asad Air Base, Iraq, Sept. 3, 2007. Defense Dept. photo by Cherie A. Thurlby | Photo Essay I | Photo Essay II |

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