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Seabees from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 1's

Seabees from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 1's

Seabees from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 1's Civic Construction Action Detail Cambodia construct a new bathroom facility as part of their 2014 Pacific Deployment. Aligned with Secretary of the Navy Ray ... More

Maryland National Guard's 229th Transportation Battalion

Maryland National Guard's 229th Transportation Battalion

Maryland National Guard's 229th Transportation Battalion Company B assemble for a unit photo at Fort A.P. Hill, Va., August 1961.

Enduring Freedom, Afghanistan

Enduring Freedom, Afghanistan

A U.S. Marine, center, with Marine Expeditionary Brigade-Afghanistan and an Afghan police officer escort the Khan Neshin district governor toward Forward Operating Base Khan Neshin after the grand opening of a ... More

USNS Comfort operations

USNS Comfort operations

U.S. Capt. Jim Ware, commanding officer of the medical treatment facility aboard the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20), speaks to the media about the ship's mission to provide humani... More

Executive Officer Cmdr. Michael McMillan watches over

Executive Officer Cmdr. Michael McMillan watches over

Executive Officer Cmdr. Michael McMillan watches over the bow of multi-purpose amphibious assault ship USS Bataan (LHD 5) while pulling away from the pier in Onslow Bay, N.C. after on-loading elements of the 22... More

Operation Unified Response

Operation Unified Response

The multipurpose amphibious assault ship USS Bataan (LHD 5) transits off the coast of Haiti while conducting flight operations supporting relief efforts on the ground. Bataan, along with amphibious dock landing... More

USS Abraham Lincoln sailors volunteer work

USS Abraham Lincoln sailors volunteer work

Boatswain's Mate Seaman Cody Fisher, assigned to the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72), works on tombstones at the Elmwood Cemetery in Norfolk, Va. Sailors volunteered on more than 40 c... More

U.S. Marine Lt. Gen. John Wissler, left, and Japan

U.S. Marine Lt. Gen. John Wissler, left, and Japan

U.S. Marine Lt. Gen. John Wissler, left, and Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Lt. Gen. Toshiaki Tanaka salute while the JGSDF band plays during a visit to Camp Sendai, Miyagi prefecture, March 11 for the 3rd ann... More

Army officer manages time being full-time lawyer, participates in community activities

Army officer manages time being full-time lawyer, participates in comm...

Lt. Col. Gary Port of the 78th Training Division speaks with soldiers of the 373rd Combat Sustainment Support Battalion (CSSB) during Warrior Exercise 78-13-01 on Fort McCoy, Wis., May 5, 2013. Col. Audrey Lewi... More

The armed forces paved the way for Civil Rights in America

The armed forces paved the way for Civil Rights in America

Black History Month Civil Rights in America poster. (Courtesy of Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute)

Volunteers Misha Turner, second from right, and Katina

Volunteers Misha Turner, second from right, and Katina

Volunteers Misha Turner, second from right, and Katina Evans, right, hand out programs during the eighth annual Walk Out of Darkness event at Mount Trashmore State Park in Virginia Beach, Va., Sept. 7, 2013. An... More

Sergeant Darlissa Leatherwood, the legal chief for

Sergeant Darlissa Leatherwood, the legal chief for

Sergeant Darlissa Leatherwood, the legal chief for the 8th Marine Corps District, carries Gatorade to people participating in a charity event. Leatherwood volunteers when ever she can because of the model set b... More

Despite small stature, Wolcott, Conn., native earns title Marine

Despite small stature, Wolcott, Conn., native earns title Marine

Pvt. Bianca Saunders, a 23-year-old native of Wolcott, Conn., points to her photo on the transformation board inside Recruiting Substation Waterbury, Recruiting Station Springfield, Jan. 10. Saunders graduated ... More

A contractor with Habitat for Humanity of Palm Beach

A contractor with Habitat for Humanity of Palm Beach

A contractor with Habitat for Humanity of Palm Beach County prepares roofing materials for a group of future Marines volunteering Jan. 10, 2014. Future Marines from Recruiting Substation Delray Beach, Fla., are... More

Martin Luther King Jr. birthday community relations project

Martin Luther King Jr. birthday community relations project

U.S. Navy Electronics Technician 1st Class Daniel Dalton assigned to Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72), sorts food at the Foodbank of Southeastern Virginia and the Eastern Shore during ... More

Marines with 3rd Detachment, III Marine Expeditionary

Marines with 3rd Detachment, III Marine Expeditionary

Marines with 3rd Detachment, III Marine Expeditionary Force from Okinawa, Japan, and members of the Thai Army Mobile Development Unit 34, pose after raising the second pillar during a pillar raising ceremony at... More

Capt. Matthew Frick, a civil affairs officer taking

Capt. Matthew Frick, a civil affairs officer taking

Capt. Matthew Frick, a civil affairs officer taking part in Exercise Cobra Gold 2014, thanks a local Thai firefighter for displaying his gear during a visit at the Batchaueit Fire Maintenance Station in Phitsan... More

What I've Learned: Charles Hardesty

What I've Learned: Charles Hardesty

Charles Hardesty’s K9 training revolves around the behavior of the animal. He teaches his Marine and civilian dog handlers to pay attention to how working dogs react to situations and environments.

Capt. Alexander Kim, commander of Headquarters and

Capt. Alexander Kim, commander of Headquarters and

Capt. Alexander Kim, commander of Headquarters and Headquarters Company, USAG Yongsan, helps deliver rice and other goods to impoverished members of the community during a Good Neighbor Program community outrea... More

Performers with the Wat Wang Rae school pose for a

Performers with the Wat Wang Rae school pose for a

Performers with the Wat Wang Rae school pose for a group photo at the pillar raising ceremony for the Ban Tabaek Ngam School Jan. 30 during exercise Cobra Gold 2014 in Phitsanulok, Kingdom of Thailand. The loca... More

Sandra Gray and her husband, Col. James "Dusty" Gray,

Sandra Gray and her husband, Col. James "Dusty" Gray,

Sandra Gray and her husband, Col. James "Dusty" Gray, Joint Force Headquarters-National Capital Region/U.S. Army Military District of Washington wounded warrior chaplain, share a moment of reflection during a c... More

Marine Cpl. John Locke, a supply clerk with Black Sea

Marine Cpl. John Locke, a supply clerk with Black Sea

Marine Cpl. John Locke, a supply clerk with Black Sea Rotational Force-14 and native of Lodi, Calif., races in hot pursuit of a young snow-fight adversary Feb. 2 at the Micul Rotterdam child placement center pl... More

U.S. Marines and People’s Liberation Army soldiers

U.S. Marines and People’s Liberation Army soldiers

U.S. Marines and People’s Liberation Army soldiers paint purlins Feb. 2 at a construction site at the Wattatakian School in support of Exercise Cobra Gold 2014 in Phitsanulok, Kingdom of Thailand. CG 14, in its... More

Members of Joint Task Force-Bravo's 612th Air Base

Members of Joint Task Force-Bravo's 612th Air Base

Members of Joint Task Force-Bravo's 612th Air Base Squadron offload pallets of donated medical supplies and equipment from a C-17 Globemaster III aircraft on the flight line at Soto Cano Air Base, Honduras, Feb... More

FLYBY. U.S. Marine expeditionary force

FLYBY. U.S. Marine expeditionary force

SGT. HEATHER AGUAS Job Title: Animal Care Non-Commissioned Officer Unit: Cherry Point Veterinary Treatment Facility Age: 34 Hometown: Priest River, Idaho DATE JOINED: JAN. 2, 2003

Marine becomes U.S. citizen in unique location

Marine becomes U.S. citizen in unique location

Corporal Jasdeep Singh, supply administrative chief, Combat Logistics Regiment 5, 1st Marine Logistics Group, displays his certificate of naturalization in front of the CLB-5 logo aboard Camp Pendleton, Calif.,... More

A sign outside of the Ban Hua Wang Krang School in

A sign outside of the Ban Hua Wang Krang School in

A sign outside of the Ban Hua Wang Krang School in Phitsanulok, Kingdom of Thailand, commemorates the involvement of multinational forces during an engineering civic assistance project which took place during C... More

Sailors assigned to the guided-missile destroyer USS

Sailors assigned to the guided-missile destroyer USS

Sailors assigned to the guided-missile destroyer USS Ramage (DDG 61) pack groceries at the Archbishopric soup kitchen in Limassol during a community service project. Sailors prepared, cooked and served more tha... More

Cpl. Brandon Wilson, food service specialist, 3rd Battalion

Cpl. Brandon Wilson, food service specialist, 3rd Battalion

Cpl. Brandon Wilson, food service specialist, 3rd Battalion 4th Marine Regiment. "Black History Month shouldn't be the only month people remember black history. People should constantly try to progress and acce... More

U.S. sailors assigned to the guided missile destroyer

U.S. sailors assigned to the guided missile destroyer

U.S. sailors assigned to the guided missile destroyer USS Ramage (DDG 61) serve food at the Archbishopric soup kitchen in Limassol, Cyprus, Feb. 4, 2014, as part of a community relations project. Sailors prepar... More

USS John S. McCain sailors participate in community service project

USS John S. McCain sailors participate in community service project

Sailors assigned to the Arleigh-Burke class guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain (DDG 56) race with children from Hikari-no Kuni Kindergarten during a community service project at the school. John S. McC... More

Volunteer for Big Brothers Big Sister of El Paso

Volunteer for Big Brothers Big Sister of El Paso

Capt. Brianna Starzell, a physical therapist in D Company at William Beaumont Army Medical Center and Gracieanne Ticer,12, student at General Colin Powell Elementary School, pose for a picture at Big Brothers B... More

22nd MEU honors base employee for support

22nd MEU honors base employee for support

U.S. Marine Corps Maj. Eric Montalvo, 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) staff judge advocate, presents Robin Burleson, base passport agent, with a plaque for her support to the 22nd MEU before its deployment... More

Steelworker Third Class Ethan Kerber presents a donation

Steelworker Third Class Ethan Kerber presents a donation

Steelworker Third Class Ethan Kerber presents a donation of four computers to the Wat Kuh Song School’s Deputy School Director, Suchinee Chaikwao, in Chanthaburi, Thailand Feb. 5 during exercise Cobra Gold 2014... More

U.S. sailors assigned to the guided missile destroyer

U.S. sailors assigned to the guided missile destroyer

U.S. sailors assigned to the guided missile destroyer USS Curtis Wilbur (DDG 54) play broomball with the Tomakomai broomball team during a combined game day at the Tokiwa Skate Center in Tomakomai, Japan, Feb. ... More

Royal Thai Army Lt. Gen. Satit Petcharat, left, the

Royal Thai Army Lt. Gen. Satit Petcharat, left, the

Royal Thai Army Lt. Gen. Satit Petcharat, left, the commander of Royal Thai 3rd Corps, speaks with U.S. Army 1st Lt. Brien Waldron, right, the engineer civic assistance project officer in charge, during his vis... More

U.S. Marine Lance Cpls. Willey David and Brendan Nolan

U.S. Marine Lance Cpls. Willey David and Brendan Nolan

U.S. Marine Lance Cpls. Willey David and Brendan Nolan prepare to lay a brick at a construction site at the Ban Tabaek Ngam School in Phitsanulok, Kingdom of Thailand, Feb. 7 in support of Exercise Cobra Gold 2... More

A People's Liberation Army soldier stuccos a wall at

A People's Liberation Army soldier stuccos a wall at

A People's Liberation Army soldier stuccos a wall at the construction site at Wattatakian School in Phitsanulok, Kingdom of Thailand, Feb. 7 in support of Exercise Cobra Gold 2014. CG 14, in its 33rd iteration,... More

Petty Officer 3rd Class Daniel Vilchezarrona, right,

Petty Officer 3rd Class Daniel Vilchezarrona, right,

Petty Officer 3rd Class Daniel Vilchezarrona, right, shakes hands with Adm. Samuel J. Locklear III after being awarded the Joint Service Achievement Medal Feb. 7 at the Camp Foster Theater. Locklear, commander ... More

Royal Thai Army Col. Pongpat Songsuntorn, far right,

Royal Thai Army Col. Pongpat Songsuntorn, far right,

Royal Thai Army Col. Pongpat Songsuntorn, far right, and U.S. Army Maj. Alejandro Buniag, the Thai and U.S. commanders of the Combined Joint Civil Military Operations Task Force, speak with students after donat... More

A Honduran mother and her children wait to receive

A Honduran mother and her children wait to receive

A Honduran mother and her children wait to receive food and medical supplies during the 52nd Joint Task Force-Bravo "Chapel Hike" in Honduras, Feb. 8, 2014. More than 120 members of Joint Task Force-Bravo spent... More

Royal Thai Army 2nd Lt. Suchat and U.S. service members

Royal Thai Army 2nd Lt. Suchat and U.S. service members

Royal Thai Army 2nd Lt. Suchat and U.S. service members speak with Narong Didsadee Feb. 8 at the Phitsanulok Provincial Sports Complex in Phitsanulok, Kingdom of Thailand, to better understand the complex's dis... More

Pfc. Leonard Buxton, carpentry masonry specialist,

Pfc. Leonard Buxton, carpentry masonry specialist,

Pfc. Leonard Buxton, carpentry masonry specialist, 1st Platoon 465th Engineer Company, shovels off old shingles from the roof of a damaged home during an Individual Readiness Training mission with Habitat for H... More

U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Brian Chesshir, 181st Intelligence

U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Brian Chesshir, 181st Intelligence

U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Brian Chesshir, 181st Intelligence Wing, Indiana Air National Guard, donates the gift of life during the February 2014 blood drive at Hulman Field, Terre Haute, Ind. Supporting the co... More

Joint Task Force-Bravo's Army Forces Battalion visits local orphanage

Joint Task Force-Bravo's Army Forces Battalion visits local orphanage

Members of Joint Task Force-Bravo's Army Forces Battalion (ARFOR) spent the day visiting with children of the Horizontes al Futuro orphanage in Comayagua, Honduras, Feb. 8, 2014. ARFOR visits the orphanage seve... More

From left to right, U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Stan

From left to right, U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Stan

From left to right, U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Stan Wright, Cpl. Andrew O'Malley, and Lance Cpl. Patrick Thompson, engineers with the 9th Engineer Support Battalion, 3rd Marine Logistics Group, III Marine Exp... More

Service members with the Singapore Armed Forces, Royal

Service members with the Singapore Armed Forces, Royal

Service members with the Singapore Armed Forces, Royal Thai Air Force, and U.S. Marine Corps and Air Force work together to lay concrete at the construction site at Ban Tabaek Ngam School in Phitsanulok, Kingdo... More

Singapore army Brig. Gen. Desmond Tan (right) acknowledges

Singapore army Brig. Gen. Desmond Tan (right) acknowledges

Singapore army Brig. Gen. Desmond Tan (right) acknowledges the hard work of U.S. Marine Corps 1st Lt. James Woolley, the site officer in charge, and the site’s multinational team during his visit to Tabaek Ngam... More

U.S. Army paratroopers with the 173rd Infantry Brigade

U.S. Army paratroopers with the 173rd Infantry Brigade

U.S. Army paratroopers with the 173rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne) load generators onto trucks in Livorno, Italy, Feb. 10, 2014, for movement to Slovenia to assist disaster relief operations with Slo... More

Singapore Army Brig. Gen. Desmond Tan speaks with Royal

Singapore Army Brig. Gen. Desmond Tan speaks with Royal

Singapore Army Brig. Gen. Desmond Tan speaks with Royal Thai Army Col Pongpat Songsuntorn during his visit to the construction site at Ban Tabaek Ngam School in Phitsanulok, Kingdom of Thailand, Feb. 10 during ... More

Republic of Korea Cpl. Kim Seungju dumps wall plaster

Republic of Korea Cpl. Kim Seungju dumps wall plaster

Republic of Korea Cpl. Kim Seungju dumps wall plaster into a wheel barrow as U.S. Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Shianne M. Chlupacek observes Feb. 10 at Wut Khun Song school near Ban Chan Krem, Kingdom of Thaila... More

Royal Thai engineers do masonry work the Wat Kun Song

Royal Thai engineers do masonry work the Wat Kun Song

Royal Thai engineers do masonry work the Wat Kun Song school during Exercise Cobra Gold in Chanthaburi Province, Kingdom of Thailand, Feb. 10. Cobra Gold, in its 33rd iteration, demonstrates the U.S. and the Ki... More

Soldiers in the Royal Thai Army color guard prepare

Soldiers in the Royal Thai Army color guard prepare

Soldiers in the Royal Thai Army color guard prepare for the beginning of the opening ceremony for Exercise Cobra Gold 2014 on Camp Akatosarot, Mueang, Phitsanulok, Kingdom of Thailand, Feb. 11, 2014. CG 14 is i... More

Members from various participating nations of Exercise

Members from various participating nations of Exercise

Members from various participating nations of Exercise Cobra Gold 2014 stand in formation during the opening ceremony at Camp Akatosarot, Mueang district, Phitsanulok province, Kingdom of Thailand, Feb. 11, 201... More

Flight Lt. Jirayu Doungnui, left, and Cpl. Michael

Flight Lt. Jirayu Doungnui, left, and Cpl. Michael

Flight Lt. Jirayu Doungnui, left, and Cpl. Michael Pigg dance with students from Nakhon Ratchasima Punyanukul School in Nakhon Ratchasima, Kingdom of Thailand, during a community relations event for exercise Co... More

Petty Officer 3rd Class Alun R. Gilpin teaches English

Petty Officer 3rd Class Alun R. Gilpin teaches English

Petty Officer 3rd Class Alun R. Gilpin teaches English to Thai school children Feb. 11 at the Wut Khun Song school near Ban Chan Krem, Kingdom of Thailand during Exercise Cobra Gold. The purpose of the communit... More

Georgia Guardsmen receive a mission brief before patrolling

Georgia Guardsmen receive a mission brief before patrolling

Georgia Guardsmen receive a mission brief before patrolling the streets Forsyth, Lumpkin, Gordon, Gilmer and Bartow counties. (Georgia Army National Guard photo by 1st Sgt. Rachel Dryden)

U.S. Marine Maj. Gen. H. Stacy Clardy III and Sgt.

U.S. Marine Maj. Gen. H. Stacy Clardy III and Sgt.

U.S. Marine Maj. Gen. H. Stacy Clardy III and Sgt. Maj. William Stables and U.S. Navy Master Chief Petty Officer Mark Rudes pose for a photo after the opening ceremony of Exercise Cobra Gold 2014 on Camp Akatos... More

Hampton Veterans Affairs Medical Center

Hampton Veterans Affairs Medical Center

Chief Religious Programs Specialist Elliott Warley, assigned to the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72), speaks with patients at the Hampton Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Hampton, Va... More

Multinational service members work together to build

Multinational service members work together to build

Multinational service members work together to build a school in Mueang, Phitsanulok, Kingdom of Thailand, Feb. 12, 2014 in support of Exercise Cobra Gold 2014. CG 14, in its 33rd iteration, demonstrates the U.... More

Members of the Royal Thai Air Force and U.S. Marines

Members of the Royal Thai Air Force and U.S. Marines

Members of the Royal Thai Air Force and U.S. Marines and sailors stand in the formation in front of students of the Ubolratana Rajakanya Ratchawittayalai School, Nakhon Ratchasima, Kingdom of Thailand, during a... More

Residents of Sankal, Djibouti, clap for a guest speaker

Residents of Sankal, Djibouti, clap for a guest speaker

Residents of Sankal, Djibouti, clap for a guest speaker during the opening remarks of the Sankal Health Clinic opening Feb. 13, 2014. Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa leadership, U.S. Embassy-Djibouti a... More

Members of the Royal Thai Army and Malaysian Armed

Members of the Royal Thai Army and Malaysian Armed

Members of the Royal Thai Army and Malaysian Armed Forces talk with U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Samnang Virakpanyou, a carpentry and masonry specialist of the 176th Engineer Company who is fluent in Thai, Feb. 13 at t... More

Lt. Jeremy Slocum, assigned to the Nimitz-class aircraft

Lt. Jeremy Slocum, assigned to the Nimitz-class aircraft

Lt. Jeremy Slocum, assigned to the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72), folds clothing for families in need at the Union Mission Ministries in Norfolk, Va. Sailors from Abraham Lincoln vo... More

Royal Thai, Republic of Korea and U.S. Marines coordinate

Royal Thai, Republic of Korea and U.S. Marines coordinate

Royal Thai, Republic of Korea and U.S. Marines coordinate forces during an amphibious demonstration at Hat Yao Beach, Kingdom of Thailand Feb. 14 during exercise Cobra Gold 2014. Cobra Gold, in its 33rd iterat... More

Local volunteer shares Valentine’s Day cheer

Local volunteer shares Valentine’s Day cheer

Cpl. Chorelle Ramirez, a volunteer with the Single Marine Program, spends time with Bernadine Harkley, a resident of Riverpoint Crest Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, on Valentine's Day. Ramirez, an aircraft ... More

Aircraft Carrier Beautification project

Aircraft Carrier Beautification project

Cmdr. Carl Koch, a chaplain assigned to the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) lines up perennials in preparation for planting at the Hampton, Va., City Hall. Sailors from Abraham Lincol... More

Aircraft Carrier Beautification project

Aircraft Carrier Beautification project

Sailors assigned to the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) trim bushes at PETA's headquarters. Sailors from Abraham Lincoln volunteered on more than 40 community service projects ranging... More

U.S. Marine Cpl. Michael Buffie learns Muay Thai from

U.S. Marine Cpl. Michael Buffie learns Muay Thai from

U.S. Marine Cpl. Michael Buffie learns Muay Thai from some youth at Father Ray’s Children’s Home in Pattaya, Kingdom of Thailand Feb. 15 during exercise Cobra Gold 2014. Cobra Gold is a recurring multinational... More

Lt. Gen. John E. Wissler talks to one of the children

Lt. Gen. John E. Wissler talks to one of the children

Lt. Gen. John E. Wissler talks to one of the children role players at the Non-Combatant Evacuation Drill at Utaphao, Kingdom of Thailand Feb. 16 during Cobra Gold 2014. Utilizing joint service and multinational... More

Humanitarian assistance

Humanitarian assistance

Sailors assigned to the guided-missile cruiser USS Gettysburg (CG 64) provide humanitarian assistance to stranded mariners. Gettysburg is deployed as part of the Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group supporting ... More

An Afghan Local Police member hands out school supplies

An Afghan Local Police member hands out school supplies

An Afghan Local Police member hands out school supplies to children of Zartallah School in Shah Wali Kot district, Kandahar province, Afghanistan, Feb. 16, 2014. School supplies, food, and clothes were given to... More

Sailors and Marines attached to Amphibious Force 7th

Sailors and Marines attached to Amphibious Force 7th

Sailors and Marines attached to Amphibious Force 7th Fleet with Royal Thai Navy sailors volunteer to work with students at Chongsamaesan School during exercise Cobra Gold 2014. CG 14 is the latest in a continui... More

Staff Sgt. Lobsang Salaka, the humanitarian relief

Staff Sgt. Lobsang Salaka, the humanitarian relief

Staff Sgt. Lobsang Salaka, the humanitarian relief yard noncommissioned officer in charge assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 10th Special Troops Battalion, 10th Sustainment Brigade, directs Pfc.... More

U.S. sailors assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal

U.S. sailors assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal

U.S. sailors assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 11 remove debris from Fiddler's Cove Beach in San Diego during a three-day beach cleanup Feb. 18, 2014. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Sp... More

Kristie Kenney, the U.S. ambassador to Thailand, thanks

Kristie Kenney, the U.S. ambassador to Thailand, thanks

Kristie Kenney, the U.S. ambassador to Thailand, thanks engineers for their hard work during a dedication ceremony at Wattatakian School in Mueang district, Phitsanulok province, Kingdom of Thailand, Feb. 18, 2... More

Children at the Panyanukal School for children with

Children at the Panyanukal School for children with

Children at the Panyanukal School for children with special needs hosted the Thai and U.S. forces Feb. 18 during Cobra Gold 2014. Here, children from the school pose for the camera. (Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Cri... More

U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Don Tran visits children at

U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Don Tran visits children at

U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Don Tran visits children at Ban Kor Mor Ha school in Pattaya, Kingdom of Thailand Feb. 18 during exercise Cobra Gold 2014. CG 14 is a recurring multinational and multiservice exercise, wh... More

A Royal Australian Air Force combat controller and

A Royal Australian Air Force combat controller and

A Royal Australian Air Force combat controller and Tech. Sgt. Michael McCall, 36th Mobility Response Squadron crew chief, communicate with an incoming Japan Air Self-Defense Force C-130 Hercules carrying equipm... More

U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Roger F. Mathews, deputy commander

U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Roger F. Mathews, deputy commander

U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Roger F. Mathews, deputy commander of U.S. Army Pacific, greets a Buddhist monk after a dedication ceremony Feb. 19 at Ban Sa la Kai Fub School as part of Exercise Cobra Gold 2014 in Sukhoth... More

Japanese Ground Self Defense Force Humanitarian Aid

Japanese Ground Self Defense Force Humanitarian Aid

Japanese Ground Self Defense Force Humanitarian Aid and Disaster Relief team at Cobra Gold 2014 pose during the exercise for a group photo, Feb. 19.

U.S. Navy Seabees with Naval Mobile Construction Battalion

U.S. Navy Seabees with Naval Mobile Construction Battalion

U.S. Navy Seabees with Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 1 play games with residents at a facility for physically disabled children and young adults in Dili, East Timor, Feb. 19, 2014. (U.S. Navy photo by Ste... More

Thai locals look at Cobra Gold calendars given to them

Thai locals look at Cobra Gold calendars given to them

Thai locals look at Cobra Gold calendars given to them during a dedication ceremony Feb. 19 at the Ban Sa la Kai Fub School as part of Exercise Cobra Gold 2014 in Sukhothai, Kingdom of Thailand. During the ex... More

NMCB 1 DET Cambodia cleans up local school

NMCB 1 DET Cambodia cleans up local school

CAMBODIA - Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 1 Construction Civic Action Detail (CCAD) in Cambodia construct a new bathroom facility as part of NMCB 1's 2014 Pacific deployment. Aligned with Secretary of the... More

Navy Lt. Justin Webb, officer-in-charge of Naval Mobile

Navy Lt. Justin Webb, officer-in-charge of Naval Mobile

Navy Lt. Justin Webb, officer-in-charge of Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 3’s Construction Civic Action Detail (CCAD) in Tonga, front, gives a tour of the newly completed community hall and disaster... More

Multinational service members pose in front of a newly

Multinational service members pose in front of a newly

Multinational service members pose in front of a newly built school during a dedication ceremony Feb. 19 at the Ban Sa la Kai Fub School as part of Exercise Cobra Gold 2014 in Sukhothai, Kingdom of Thailand. D... More

Col. Hunter Hobson, center, presents Group Captain

Col. Hunter Hobson, center, presents Group Captain

Col. Hunter Hobson, center, presents Group Captain Narong Intachat with a custom plaque at the closing ceremony aboard Wing One Royal Thai Air Force Base, Nakhon Ratchasima, Kingdom of Thailand, Feb. 20 during ... More

Members of Joint Task Force-Bravo’s Joint Security

Members of Joint Task Force-Bravo’s Joint Security

Members of Joint Task Force-Bravo’s Joint Security Forces paid a visit to local organization “Casa Ayuda”, Feb. 20, 2014, to share some joy with the kids there. The service members also brought gifts such as sh... More

A Seabee from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB)

A Seabee from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB)

A Seabee from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 1 Detail Chinhae, cuts into concrete slabs during construction operations Feb. 22. NMCB 1 Detail Chinhae is tasked with preparing a side road to the Turt... More

A Seabee from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB)

A Seabee from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB)

A Seabee from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 1's Civic Construction Action Detail (CCAD) Cambodia shares a photo with local children while constructing a new bathroom facility as part of NMCB 1's 20... More

SWD Deputy Counsel honored with Corps of Engineers Public Service Award

SWD Deputy Counsel honored with Corps of Engineers Public Service Awar...

Southwestern Division Deputy Counsel Walter J. Skierski, Jr., stands next to the Corps of Engineers 2013 Bert Pettinato Award for Public Service.

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Miranda Heymer instructs a Honduran

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Miranda Heymer instructs a Honduran

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Miranda Heymer instructs a Honduran woman on taking medication during a Medical Readiness Training Exercise (MEDRETE) conducted by Joint Task Force-Bravo's Medical Element (MEDEL) in the vi... More

Rear Adm. Cynthia M. Thebaud Commander, Logistics Group

Rear Adm. Cynthia M. Thebaud Commander, Logistics Group

Rear Adm. Cynthia M. Thebaud Commander, Logistics Group Western Pacific Commander, Task Force 73 Singapore Area Coordinator, visits Seabees from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 1's Civic Construction... More

Sailors assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group

Sailors assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group

Sailors assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group (EODGRU) 1 participate in a San Diego Habitat for Humanity volunteer project. Habitat for Humanity programs are focused on creating homes for ownership by v... More

Joint Task Force-Bravo's Medical Element (MEDEL) hosted

Joint Task Force-Bravo's Medical Element (MEDEL) hosted

Joint Task Force-Bravo's Medical Element (MEDEL) hosted a “Fiesta Day” for 40 boys, 72 girls, and 23 adult chaperones from the Hogar de Ninos and Ninas Nazareth orphanage at Soto Cano Air Base, Honduras, March ... More

Constructionman Electrician 3rd Class Kevin Gillane,

Constructionman Electrician 3rd Class Kevin Gillane,

Constructionman Electrician 3rd Class Kevin Gillane, assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 1, holds a guardrail in place as other Seabees and Republic of Korea Navy sailors secure the rail at Aikwangw... More

Sgt. David Stanford, 5th Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment

Sgt. David Stanford, 5th Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment

Sgt. David Stanford, 5th Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment chaplain assistant, unloads one of the vans full of food from the 2014 Food Drive. The Food Drive brought in more than 4,800 items. (Photo by Capt. Patric... More

Seabees volunteer at Bakhita Orphanage

Seabees volunteer at Bakhita Orphanage

Seabees from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 1, Detail Timor-Leste, volunteer at the Bakhita Orphanage. The NMCB-1 sailors paired up with members of the Australian Police Force to prepare hot meals f... More

Sailors from the submarine tender USS Frank Cable (AS

Sailors from the submarine tender USS Frank Cable (AS

Sailors from the submarine tender USS Frank Cable (AS 40) and the Los Angeles-class submarine USS Key West (SSN 722) construct a playground for the Guahan Academy Charter School. The playground will be construc... More

Stranded dog rescued by crew of Coast Guard Cutter Bristol Bay reunited with owner

Stranded dog rescued by crew of Coast Guard Cutter Bristol Bay reunite...

Jodi Benchich (right), owner of the lost dog rescued by the Coast Guard on Monday, and Michelle Heyza, founder of A Rejoyceful Rescue, are all smiles during their time with KC at Wilson Veterinary Hospital, Mar... More

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