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Give me a fast ship and the wind at my back for I intend to sail in harms way! (John Paul Jones)
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Memorial Day: Have We Forgotten What it Stands For?
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Military and civilian participants wait during the opening ceremony of the 23rd Annunal Bataan Memorial Death March on White Sands Missile Range, N.M., March 25, 2012. More than 6,700 people came from across the country to honor the World War II veterans who endured the Bataan Death March in 1942.
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Army Chief of Staff Gen. Raymond T. Odierno presents Sgt. Felipe Pereira with a Distinguished Service Cross on Fort Campbell, Ky., April 12, 2012. Pereira, assigned to the 101st Airborne Division, received the award for his actions in Afghanistan, Nov. 1, 2010. Pereira is the 165th Screaming Eagle Soldier to receive the award, which is second highest only to the Medal of Honor. U.S. Army photo by Sam Shore
Second Lt. Jared Dudley, a paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team, leads fellow paratroopers back from a combined operation with Afghan policemen
Sgt. Joshua Smith, a paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team, chats with an Afghan boy during an Afghan-led clearing operation April 28, 2012, Ghazni province, Afghanistan. The soldier studied the Pashtun language prior to his deployment to southern Ghazni.
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WWII mechanic in the Army Air Corps and fought in the Pacific
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Craig Mullaney, author of The Unforgiving Minute.
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Senior Airman John Fitzgerald, a medic attached to Laghman Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT), hangs a bag of fluids to to keep Staff Sgt. Jason Roberts hydrated during a multi-day operation on Aug. 21 in Alingar District in the Laghman Province of Afghanistan. The PRT, combined with assets from the 45th Infantry Brigade, conducted a cordon and search in a village thought to be home to IED makers and Taliban fighters.
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Staff Sgt. Angel Alvarez, assigned to the Warrior Training Center in Fort Lee, Virginia, cocks back to throw a pyrotechnic grenade simulator into the sky during a night fire event during the 2011 Department of the Army Best Warrior Competition on Oct. 5. During the event, the warriors fire while pyrotechnics explode all around them.
U.S. Army soldiers assigned to Company C, 2nd Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, Task Force No Slack, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, say farewell during a memorial service for six fallen soldiers at Forward Operating Base Joyce in eastern Afghanistan's Kunar Province on April 9.
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Flags stand vigil at gravesites in Arlington National Cemetary. The 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard) began their rounds to place a small American flag into the ground in front of every grave marker at Arlington National Cemetery for the upcoming Memorial Day observance.
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The 82nd Airborne Division Commander, Maj. Gen. David Rodriguez and Sergeant Major of the Army Kenneth O. Preston lead the 82nd up and down Longstreet Road on Fort Bragg, N.C., during a Division run,
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U.S. Army National Guard Spc. Timothy Shout, a native of Austin, Texas, scans the nearby ridgeline along with other members of the Provincial Reconstruction Team Kunar Security Force element, following an engagement with anti-Afghan forces.
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remove * ☆ Favorite * * Actions▾ * * Share via email * Share on Facebook * Share on Twitter * * Share▾ * Newer * * * * Older photo Roadside chat A paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team teaches Afghan boys how to do the “fistbump” April 22, 2012, in southern Ghazni province, Afghanistan.
Joliet, Ill., native Cpl. John Kehoe, the assistant patrol leader for the mobile section with Fox Company, 2nd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, and vehicle commander of Truck Four’s crew in the mobile section, enjoys a light moment before starting the day’s mission. (DVIDS photo by Cpl. Tommy Bellegarde. Used with permission.)
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Marines from Combat Logistics Bn 4, 2nd Marine Logistics Group (Fwd), receive the NATO Medal and Afghanistan Campaign Medal.
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U.S. Army 2nd Lt. Payton Holtz, from St. Augustine , Fla., leader of 1st Platoon, from Alpha Company, 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 101st Airborne Division, flies in a Chinook helicopter during an air assault mission. The mission was meant to disrupt an insurgent hiding cell in Janubi Nakum village, Yahya Khel district of Paktika province, June 27-28. (Photo by U.S. Army Sgt. Jeffrey Alexander, 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment)
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25th Infantry Division Memorial A Soldier in the Global War on Terrorism mourns a fallen brother, while fallen 25th Infantry Division Soldiers from WWII, Korea, and Vietnam mourn with and comfort him.
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Maj. Kenneth Bath, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, and his family share a tender embrace, during a reception ceremony at Fort Wainwright, Alaska. Bath returned home after completing a 12-month deployment to Afghanistan.
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Cruisin' for a Bruisin' by United States Marine Corps Official Page, via Flickr (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Tyler Main)
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Men of the US Army 77th Infantry Division at Okinawa, Japan listening to radio reports for the German surrender, 8 May 1945
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