Photo Credit: Sgt. 1st Class Richard Simmons)Saturday, January 30, 2010
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Soccer Friends
Photo Credit: Staff Sgt. Jason DouglasTeam, shakes hands with an Iraqi child after handing him a soccer ball near Dibbis in Kirkuk province Iraq.
Soldiers from the MiTT began a soccer-ball drive dubbed "Operation Wild Balls". The soccer-balls were donated from friends, Families and others through a Web site set up by the MiTT.Click here for the complete story behind the photo.
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Clothes giveaway in Sakhrah
Photo Credit: Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Matthew D. LeistikowLt. Col. Adnan Abdullah Waheb, interim chief of the Iraqi police station in Multaka, gives new clothes to children in the village of Sakhrah, in Multaka, Iraq
Iraqi police and U.S. Soldiers from the 2nd Platoon, 218th Military Police Company went door to door in Sakhrah to deliver more than 30 bags of food and clothes to residents.Sunday, December 13, 2009
Full moon
Photo Credit: Sgt. Travis Zelinski
An AH-64D Apache attack helicopter departs the flightline under a full moon.
The helicopter departs the flightline to conduct operations from Camp Taji, Iraq. The helicopter is assigned to the 1st Cavalry Division's 1st Air Cavalry Brigade.Saturday, November 28, 2009
Reason for being in Iraq
Photo Credit: Spc. Ali Hargis, Joint Combat Camera Center-Iraq.
Two young boys smile at U.S. Soldiers as they leave a ribbon cutting ceremony at a newly-opened elementary school in the Mahkmur District of Iraq.
Thursday, November 26, 2009
george Washington's 1789 Thanksgiving Proclamation
Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor; and Whereas both Houses of Congress have, by their joint committee, requested me to "recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness:"Now, therefore, I do recommend and assign Thursday, the 26th day of November next, to be devoted by the people of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being who is the beneficent author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be; that we may then all unite in rendering unto Him our sincere and humble thanks for His kind care and protection of the people of this country previous to their becoming a nation; for the signal and manifold mercies and the favorable interpositions of His providence in the course and conclusion of the late war; for the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty which we have since enjoyed; for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enable to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national one now lately instituted for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed, and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and, in general, for all the great and various favors which He has been pleased to confer upon us.
And also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations and beseech Him to pardon our national and other transgressions; to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually; to render our National Government a blessing to all the people by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed; to protect and guide all sovereigns and nations (especially such as have shown kindness to us), and to bless them with good governments, peace, and concord; to promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the increase of science among them and us; and, generally to grant unto all mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as He alone knows to be best.
Given under my hand, at the city of New York, the 3d day of October, A.D. 1789.
George Washington
A special thanks for the men and women serving in our military so we can observe this day in freedom. Also, thanks to their families and friends.
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Afhgan Healthcare
Photo Credit: Staff Sgt. William Greeson
An Afghan boy is treated by a U.S. Navy hospital corpsman in the Nawa district of Helmand province, Afghanistan.
The corpsman is with Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment at Patrol Base Jaker. The boy's father brought him to the base saying that his son had fallen into a nearby canal. The Marines are deployed with Regimental Combat Team 3 to conduct counter insurgency operations in partnership with Afghan National Security Forces in southern Afghanistan.
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