Photos of the Day
9/21/09
(Click photos to enlarge. Source: US
Department of Defense) |

Basic trainees run through a tactical course at the
Basic Expeditionary Airman Training, or BEAST, course
September 2nd, 2009, at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. (U.S.
Air Force photo/Senior Airman Christopher Griffin) |

Basic trainees inch their way through a tactical course
at the Basic Expeditionary Airman Training, or BEAST,
course September 2nd, 2009, at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas.
(U.S.
Air Force photo/Senior Airman Christopher Griffin) |

U.S.
Army Staff Sgt. Francis Macale secures a landing zone as
a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter flies
away near the Koh Band district of Kapisa province,
Afghanistan, September 14th, 2009. Macale is a squad leader
assigned to the Kapisa Provincial Reconstruction Team.
(U.S. Air Force photo by Capt. Darrick B. Lee) |

U.S.
Army Spc. Olen Bailey stands post in a guard tower on
Forward Operating Base (FOB) Mizan in Zabul province,
Afghanistan, September 10th, 2009. Bailey is assigned to
Company A, 1st Battalion, 4th Infantry Regiment. (U.S.
Army photo by Sergeant Kris Eglin) |

U.S.
Soldiers prepare to gather fuel supplies being dropped
from a C-130 Hercules aircraft onto a landing zone at
Forward Operating Base (FOB) Baylough in the Zabul province of
Afghanistan September 17th, 2009. The Soldiers are assigned to
Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 4th Infantry Regiment. (DoD
photo by Spc. Tia P. Sokimson, U.S. Army/Released) |

Marines with Company E, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine
Regiment step off on a patrol to investigate the area
after four insurgents were seen placing an IED September 9th,
2009. |

A mini-mushroom cloud billows behind Army engineers from
E Company, 1st Battalion, 77th Armor Regiment "Steel
Tigers" and Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) technicians
attached to 4th Brigade, 1st Armored Division. The
detonation was designed to eliminate loose unexploded
ordnance and illegal munitions seized by Iraqi security
forces in Dhi Qar province. |
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