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A navy marine holds a weapon during a search in the town of Tuncingo in the state of Guerrero, Mexico, Tuesday Nov. 2, 2010. The marine is part of a team searching for 20 missing men from the state of Michoacan who were kidnapped in the pacific resort city of Acapulco on Sept. 30
A U.S. soldier (R) takes part in a joint patrol with the Iraqi army in Kirkuk, 250 km (150 miles) north of Baghdad October 25, 2010. The United States formally ended combat operations in Iraq in August, more than seven years after its troops ousted Saddam Hussein, and says Iraq is a much safer place. Stationed on a dusty Saddam-era military outpost outside Kirkuk, U.S. forces have long provided a buffer in the Arab-Kurdish conflict and tried to pacify the old adversaries. Picture taken October 25, 2010.
Lance Cpl. Alexander Watsion, of Grand Rapids, Michigan, with India company, 3rd Battalion 5th Marines, First Marine Division, walks during a patrol, Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2011, in Sangin, south of Kabul, Afghanistan.
Cpl. Kevin Frame, of Woodlake, California, with India company, 3rd Battalion 5th Marines, First Marine Division, smokes during a break in patrol, Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2011, in Sangin, south of Kabul, Afghanistan.
U.S. flight medic, SGT Billy Raines from CCO. , 1-214 AVN Medevac task force Destiny, treats a wounded Afghan Army soldier during a Medevac flight in southern Afghanistan's Helmand Province November 3, 2010.
A U.S. Army Black Hawk pilot turns his head to check his aircraft’s gauges while flying over Baghdad this summer. The pilot belongs to the Enhanced Combat Aviation Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, the last aviation brigade to deploy to Operation Iraqi Freedom and the only aviation brigade supporting Operation New Dawn.
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U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Ian J. Baker, 2nd Squad Leader, 3rd Platoon, E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, and a native of San Diego, Calif., provides security from behind a rock in a village in the Charbaran District here Oct. 28 during Toccoa Tikurah, the largest combined air assault 4th Brigade Combat Team has conducted this year in the province.
An United States Special Forces soldier give commands to element as USSF and Aghanistan National Army Special Forces soldiers patrol in Hyderbad, Helmand province, Afghanistan, Oct. 13.
A members of the Taliban voluntarily handed over their weapons and joined the government in Herat November 4, 2010. Twenty members of the Taliban left their group and joined the Afghan government in the western Herat province.
U.S. Army SPC. , Jose De La Rosa, watches the ground from a chase helicopter during a Medevac mission in southern Afghanistan's Helmand Province November 4, 2010.
U.S. soldiers help a comrade wounded by an explosion to a Medevac helicopter in Helmand province in southern Afghanistan November 4, 2010.
An United States Special Forces soldier watches as a wall is breached to fit their vehicles in a compound that was seized in Hyderbad, Helmand province, Afghanistan, Oct. 11. It was part of Operation Riverdance.
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A sniper with the 138th Infantry Regiment’s Sniper Team, Missouri Army National Guard, fires a Barrett .50 caliber sniper rifle at a 400-meter target. The Guard Sniper Team was demonstrating proper sniping techniques and field craft to the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Forces, during a field training exercise Orient Shield 11 at Camp Kami-Furano, Japan
Russian mounted soldiers wearing Soviet Union WWII military uniform ride on the Red square during a parade in Moscow on November 7, 2010. The parade is a reenactment of the November 7, 1941 events, when troops marched directly to the front from Red Square to fight the invading fascist troops.
LCpl. James Jones, 25, of Boston, Massachusetts and from the First Battalion, Eighth Marines Bravo Company fires his weapon during a battle against Taliban insurgents in Musa Qala district in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province November 7, 2010.
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U.S. Marines take a defensive position during a firefight in Marjah, Helmand province, Afghanistan, Oct. 30, 2010. The Marines, with Golf Company, 2nd Battalion, 9th Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 1, were deployed in support of the International Security Assistance Force. (DoD photo by Cpl. Derek Bonnette, U.S. Marine Corps/Released)
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FORT WORTH, TX - NOVEMBER 07: A B-52 from the 93rd Bomb Squadron, Barksdale Airforce Base, performs a flyover during pre-race ceremonies prior to the NASCARSprint Cup Series AAA Texas 500 at Texas Motor Speedway on November 7, 2010 in Fort Worth, Texas.
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WAH-64 Apache attack helicopters seen operating from the deck of HMS Ark Royal, off the coast of Cornwall. The aircraft carrier, flagship of the Royal Navy, is due to decommission within months.
A Ranger watches his arcs as the interpreter ensures nobody in the nearby compound was injured by a hail of Taliban bullets
A Ranger and a village elder acknowledge one another.
Crew Chief Mathew McIntosh (L) watches as U.S. Marines and members of the Afghan Army carry an injured Afghan boy to a helicopter during a Medevac mission in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province November 9, 2010.
Medic SSG. Richard Jarrett (R) and Crew Chief Mathew McIntosh (L) from CCO. , 1-214 AVN examine a wounded Afghan soldier during a Medevac flight in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province November 9, 2010.
Medic SSG. Richard Jarrett (R) from CCO. , 1-214 AVN runs along side of U.S. Marines and members of Afghan Army carrying a wounded Afghan Soldier to a helicopter during a Medevac mission in southern Afghanistan's Helmand Province November 9, 2010.
A machine gunner from the First Battalion, Eighth Marines Bravo Company wears a bandolier of bullets around his neck at his base in Talibjan after a patrol in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province, November 9, 2010.
Members of Yemen's U.S.-trained counter-terrorism during a field training near Sanaa November 9, 2010.
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GULF OF ADEN (Oct. 18, 2010) Members of a visit, board, search and seizure team fire M-4 rifles during weapons training aboard the amphibious dock landing ship USS Pearl Harbor (LSD 52). Pearl Harbor is part of Combined Task Force 151, a multinational task force established in January 2009 to conduct counter-piracy operations in and around the Gulf of Aden and Somali Basin.
Graffiti reading "Get Hard, Stay hard," by a previous deployment of the U.S Marine Corps's, adorns the walls at Musa Qala in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province, November 10, 2010.
Medic SGT. Tyrone Jordan (R) and Crew Chief SPC. Dennis Cater from CCO. , 1-214 AVN Dustoff treat an injured Afghan national during a Medevac mission in southern Afghanistan's Helmand Province November 10, 2010.
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NATO soldiers arrive at the site of a suicide attack near the former Afghan Royal Palace in Kabul on November 12, 2010. A suicide car bomber targeted foreign forces in Kabul November 12 but the device detonated early, slightly injuring an Afghan soldier, ISAF and city police said. The explosion happened near Camp Julien, which is located in the ruins of the former Afghan royal palace in the west of the city.
US soldiers walk around a damaged US army vehicle near the former Afghan Royal Palace in Kabul on November 12, 2010. A suicide car bomber targeted foreign forces in Kabul November 12 but the device detonated early, slightly injuring an Afghan soldier, ISAF and city police said. The explosion happened near Camp Julien, which is located in the ruins of the former Afghan royal palace in the west of the city.
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U.S. Marine Sgt. Bryan Murry kneels at the grave site of his friend U.S. Marine Sgt. David Smith who was killed in Afghanistan, on November 11, 2010 in Arlington, Virginia. Smith died January 26, 2010 while serving during Operation Enduring Freedom. Families and friends visited Section 60 at Arlington Cemetery today to pay respects on Veterans day.
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Mark Ormrod, left, a British Marine commando who became a triple amputee when wounded on duty in Afghanistan, and Bill Dunham, a U.S. Army Ranger who lost his right leg in 1989 while on duty in Panama, accompanied by other wounded and non-wounded runners, complete the last leg of a 3,530-mile run from New York to Los Angeles, known as a Gumpathon, ending at the Santa Monica, Calif. , Pier on U.S. Veterans Day Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010. The two-month run by five British soldiers and one U.S. soldier seeks to raise money for wounded service men and women in both countries.
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A soldier from the Indian army fires the Javelin anti-tank missile Nov. 8 during Yudh Abhyas 2010, an annual bilateral training exercise.
A Task Force Destiny, 101st Combat Aviation Brigade OH-58D Kiowa Warrior helicopter conducts aerial reconnaissance Nov. 8, 2010, in southern Afghanistan.
U.S. Marine and Female Engagement Team leader Sgt. Sheena Adams from First Battalion, Eighth Marines prepares to head out on an operation from her base at Musa Qala in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province November 13, 2010.
Medic Sergeant Tyrone Jordan (L) from CCO. , 1-214 AVN Dustoff, treats a child wounded in an explosion as the child's father comforts the boy during a Medevac mission in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province November 13, 2010.
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Marines pay final respects to a fallen Marine in front of a memorial display of an upturned rifle, combat boots and kevlar during Staff Sgt. Jordan Emrick’s memorial service at Camp Leatherneck, Afghanistan, Nov. 13. Emrick, an explosive ordnance disposal tech assigned to 3rd Platoon, 1st EOD Company, 1st Marine Logistics Group (Forward), was killed Nov. 5 while conducting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan.
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U.S. Army Sgt. James T. Schmidt, an infantry squad leader from Decatur, Ill., assigned to Company C, 2nd Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, Task Force No Slack, pulls security while on patrol in eastern Afghanistan's Kunar province, Nov. 4. On his right wrist, Schmidt wears a memorial bracelet for his nine fallen comrades from his previous platoon’s deployment to Afghanistan.
Sgt. Tyler Landreville, Special Operations Task Force-East, provides security during a patrol of Jan Qadam village, Bagram District, Parwan province, Afghanistan, Nov. 10.
Just minutes before an eight-hour firefight, U.S. Army Spc. Nathan Allen (right), an infantry team leader from Atlantic, Iowa, and U.S. Army Pvt. Cody M. Meidinger, a squad automatic weapon machine gunner from Emporia, Kan., both assigned to Company C, 2nd Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, Task Force No Slack, scan the horizon from their fighting position on a remote hilltop in the Shal Valley in eastern Afghanistan's Nuristan Province Nov. 7.
U.S. Army Spc. Roy D. Cunningham (kneeling), a mortarman from Detroit, and U.S. Army Spc. Jeremy D. Hunt, a mortarman from Las Vegas, both assigned to Company C, 2nd Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, Task Force No Slack, fire 60mm mortar rounds at insurgents on a remote hilltop in the Shal Valley in eastern Afghanistan's Nuristan Province Nov. 8.
U.S. Army Pfc. Nick A. Flowerday (right), an infantryman from Burlingame, Calif., and U.S. Army Cpl. Robert Chauncey, an infantry team leader from McKinney, Texas, both assigned to Company C, 2nd Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, Task Force No Slack, provide over watch for a combat logistics patrol from their fighting position on a remote hilltop in the Shal Valley in eastern Afghanistan's Nuristan province Nov. 9.
Medal of Honor: Staff Sgt. Salvatore A. Giunta
Staff Sgt. Giunta is scheduled to receive the Medal of Honor for his actions while deployed with Battle Company's 1st Platoon in Afghanistan's remote Korengal Valley. It was widely considered to be one of the most difficult and dangerous assignments of the war.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvatore_Giunta
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Medal of Honor: Staff Sgt. Salvatore A. Giunta
Staff Sgt. Giunta is scheduled to receive the Medal of Honor for his actions while deployed with Battle Company's 1st Platoon in Afghanistan's remote Korengal Valley. It was widely considered to be one of the most difficult and dangerous assignments of the war.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvatore_Giunta
He's receiving the Medal of Honor today.
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