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Iranian President Mohammad Khatami, aims a rifle during his visit from Iran's Defense Ministry in Tehran in this photo taken on Sunday June, 13, 2004 and made available Tuesday June 15, 2004. In a letter to the leaders of Britain, Germany and France, Khatami accused the EU trio of working with Tehran's arch-foe Washington to heap pressure on the Islamic Republic.
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The son of Karim Darham, a senior leader of the militia loyal to Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and who was killed last week by U.S. troops during clashes, is placed with a rifle in front of a portrait of al-Sadr with a rifle during a demonstration against U.S. forces in in the Sadr City district of Baghdad, Tuesday June 15, 2004.
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An Iraqi boy holds an M79 grenade launcher as he marches with a group of Shiite muslim supporters of cleric Muqtada al-Sadr holding an anti-USA military demonstration in the Sadr City district of Baghdad, Tuesday June 15, 2004.
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[quote]An Iraqi woman raises a weapon over her head as a group of Shiite Muslim supporters of cleric Muqtada al-Sadr hold a demonstration against the US military in the Sadr City district of Baghdad, Iraq Tuesday June 15, 2004.
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Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr addresses followers during Friday prayers in the town of Kufa in this May 21, 2004 file photo. Moqtada al-Sadr sent his fighters home on Wednesday in what may mark the end of a 10-week revolt against U.S.-led forces that once engulfed southern Iraq and Shi'ite Islam's holiest shrines.
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Iraqi firefighters try to extinguish a smouldering oil pipeline north of Faw, Iraq Tuesday June 15, 2004. Explosions ripped through two oil pipelines in southern Iraq on Tuesday, cutting oil exports from the south by more than half, the Iraqi South Oil Company said.
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Repairs are carried out on the Kirkuk-Turkey pipeline, Iraq (news - web sites)'s main oil export artery, which takes crude from the Kirkuk oilfields to Turkey's Mediterranean terminal of Ceyhan. Ghazi Talabani, the security chief for the oil fields around Kirkuk, has been assassinated outside his home
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The body of a senior official of Iraq (news - web sites)'s North Oil Company, Ghazi Talabani, 70, lays covered by a sheet June 16, 2004 in the northern city of Kirkuk, after he was assassinated by gunmen as he was being driven to work. With all Iraq's oil exports halted by sabotage, gunmen killed a top Iraqi oil official on Wednesday in a new blow to an interim government reeling from violence two weeks before U.S.-led occupation formally ends.
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A television image shows Iraqi youths stone a burning vehicle after a car bomb attack destroyed an Iraqi police car and a civilian vehicle carrying foreigners, in Ramadi June 16, 2004. The attack killed at least four Iraqis. Witnesses said several foreigners were also believed to be among the casualties. Jabar Humadi, a doctor at Ramadi's main hospital, said four bodies had been brought in after the blast.
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A grab from a video on an Islamist Internet site shows Marshall Johnson blindfolded with a piece of white fabric and tape. The US hostage was wearing a red shirt torn in parts so a tattoo on his left shoulder became visible
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Marines from the 1st Battalion 5th Marines study flyers of Jordanian-born militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Fallujah, Iraq, April 24, 2004. With al-Zarqawi's public profile in the terror world growing, U.S. officials say he's joined the club of leading terrorists that includes Osama bin Laden, his deputy Ayman al-Zawahri and few, if any, others
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Afghan soldiers holds the remains of the rocket landed inside compound of the Afghan Intelligence Agency in Kabul on Tuesday night, June 15, 2004. One person was injured and taken to hospital, a senior military commander, said.
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Officials at Kabul Airport move the coffin of a Chinese worker killed in an attack in Kunduz. Four Afghans including two children were killed in a bomb blast in the northeastern city of Kunduz, less than a week after 11 Chinese road workers were shot dead near the city, officials said
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KABUL, AFGHANISTAN: A Canadian soldier of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) (R) stands to gets her voting card for Canadian Federal Electionsfrom an army official in Kabul, 16 June 2004. Canadian troops, with some 1,500 soldiers in the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan are among the first citizens to vote in their polls, still some weeks away. Afghanistan is moving towards its first democratic elections, scheduled for September 2004, amid a background of increased attacks against electoral workers and ongoing insecurity some two and a half years after the fall of the Taliban regime.
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German soldiers help a mock protester during the Baltops military exercise in Ustka, in northern Poland, June 16, 2004. More than 5,000 sea, air and ground forces from 13 countries are taking part in the annual Baltic Operations exercise, which started Monday and runs through June 19 in northern Europe.
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Israeli soldiers scuffle with Palestinians during a protest against the construction of a new section of the separation barrier which goes over their land in the northern West Bank village of Al-Zawieh. Israel began building work to incorporate the major Jewish settlement of Ariel within its West Bank separation barrier
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An Israeli soldier blocks Palestinian villagers from the West Bank village of Iskaka. Hundreds of Palestinian villagers pelted Israeli bulldozers with stones as they began work to incorporate the major Jewish settlement of Ariel within the West Bank separation barrier
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A Palestinian youth struggles with Israeli soldiers as they try to arrest him during a demonstration protesting against the construction of Israel's separation barrier, in the village of Al-Zawiya, in the northern West Bank, south-west of the Palestinian city of Nablus, Tuesday, June 15, 2004. Palestinian landowners and Israeli forces have clashed for a number of days at the site where Israel is building the barrier
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An Israeli soldier covers the camera of a journalist as he prevents him from shooting during a demonstration protesting against the construction of Israel's separation barrier, in the village of Al-Zawiya, in the northern West Bank, south-west of the Palestinian city of Nablus, Tuesday, June 15, 2004. Palestinian landowners and Israeli forces have clashed for a number of days at the site where Israel is building the barrier
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A soldier waves his weapon at Palestinian youth protesters as they clash with Israeli security forces between the Palestinian West Bank village of Iskaka and the Israeli settlement of Ariel, Wednesday June 16, 2004.
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A Palestinian man scuffles with an Israeli soldier during a protest against the construction of the controversial Israeli security barrier, near the West Bank village of Skaka, June 16, 2004.
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A'RAM, WEST BANK - JUNE 16: Palestinians are joined by Israeli left-wing activists as they demonstrate against Israel's separation barrier where it is under construction June 16, 2004 alongside the West Bank Palestinian town of A'Ram. Israel's controversial wall will cut off tens of thousands of Palestinians from neighboring Jerusalem where many of them have families and work.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon smiles as he leaves the polling station after voting in a referendum of his Likud party in the southern city of Sderot in this Sunday May 2, 2004 file photo. Israel's attorney general Meni Mazuz on Tuesday June 15, 2004 informed Sharon that he is closing a corruption case against him, Israel TV's Channel 10 reported. The decision ends months of uncertainty over the prime minister's political future and boosting chances for an Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip
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Israeli girls donning evening dresses participate in a beauty pageant in the neighborhood of Gilo, an area Israel captured in the 1967 Mideast war and later annexed as part of Jerusalem, Tuesday June 15, 2004. Eight Palestinian girls from the nearby West Bank town of Bethlehem, all of them Christians, were to participate in the Miss Barrier Line contest, named after the line that separates the West Bank from the neighborhood, but the girls, citing threats on their lives from fellow Palestinians, slowlybacked out over the past months
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A Haitian artisan boat vendor passes near a vessel with Brazilian Marines of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, June 15, 2004.
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Brazilian Marines of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti stand guard during the arrival of two vessels from Brazil in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, June 15, 2004. The boats brought about 95 Brazilian soldiers, UN vehicles, food, water, among other things to aid those affected by floods.
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Brazilian Marines of United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti unload containers with aid during the arrival of two vessels from Brazil in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, June 15, 2004.
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Bosnian Muslim forensic experts unearth bodies of victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, from a mass grave in the eastern village of Sandici, June 16, 2004. This was the site of Europe's worst atrocity since World War Two. A Bosnian Serb government commission produced a report last week in which it admitted clearly that Serb forces murdered thousands of Muslims in Srebrenica, a massacre the government has always denied. The commission also identified locations of 32 new mass graves, including this one in the village of Sandici.
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A Russian Proton-M rocket, carrying a U.S. Intelsat-10 satellite, rises at a launch pad of the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Central Asian nation of Kazakhstan, Thursday, June 11, 2004. Russian space officials on Tuesday delayed the launch of a U.S. telecommunications satellite into orbit for technical reasons.
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Members of the Free Aceh Movement hold a drill at Lhok Juk village. Indonesian officials urged Acehnese guerrillas to end a 27-year battle for independence after Swedish authorities arrested their exiled leaders, but the rebels said the fight would go on.(
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Ishak Daud, GAM's chief of staff in Aceh stands beside hostages at Lhok Juk village. Indonesian officials urged Acehnese guerrillas to end a 27-year battle for independence after Swedish authorities arrested their exiled leaders, but the rebels said the fight would go on
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PAJU, REPUBLIC OF KOREA - JUNE 16: A South Korean soldier looks on as a battery of propaganda loudspeakers are removed on the border with North Korea on 16 June 2004 in Paju, South Korea. The removal of the propaganda devices along the world?s last Cold War frontier follows on from the inter-Korean summit accord which was reached in 2000
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South Korean soldiers remove loudspeakers used for propaganda near the demilitarized zone between South and North Korea, in Paju city, north of Seoul, Wednesday, June 16, 2004. North and South Korea have ended propaganda broadcasts over loudspeakers along their heavily militarized border as part of efforts to reduce tension on their divided peninsula
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U.S. Marines assigned to the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (24th MEU) are briefed prior to being transported to the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge (LHD 3).
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U.S. Marines assigned to the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (24th MEU) make their way to Onslow Beach where Landing Craft, Air Cushions (LCAC) assigned to Assault Craft Unit Four (ACU-4) wait to transport them to the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge (LHD 3).
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Onslow Bay, N.C. (Jun. 9, 2004) - Assault Craft Unit Four (ACU-4) Landing Craft, Air Cushion (LCAC) Six Nine approaches the well deck of the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge (LHD 3) carrying elements of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU). Kearsarge is surged deployed to transport elements of the 24th MEU Air Combat Element to the Central Command Area of Responsibility in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and the Global War on Terrorism.
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040609-N-2972R-011 Onslow Bay, N.C. (Jun. 9, 2004) - A Landing Craft, Air Cushion (LCAC) assigned to Assault Craft Unit Four (ACU-4) prepares to depart the well deck of the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge (LHD 3) as another LCAC waits astern to transport elements of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) to the ship.
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Marines perform maintenance on their weapons in the amphibious assault ship's upper vehicle storage area. USS Kearsarge (LHD 3) is surge deployed to transport elements of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) to the Central Command Area of Responsibility (AOR) in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and the Global War on Terrorism
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CH-53E Super Stallion helicopters assigned to Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron Four Six Four (HMH-464) take off from the flight deck of the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge (LHD 3).
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(June 11, 2004) - Sailors from Combat Systems department upload a Rolling Airframe Missile aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge (LHD 3)
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Ustka, Poland (June 10, 2004) - Infantrymen from Charlie Company, 178th Infantry Air Assault, 66th Brigade, 35th Infantry Division, storm a building hallway during urban assault training. Baltic Operations (BALTOPS) 2004 is an individual combined maritime and land exercise in the Baltic Sea, conducted in the spirit of “Partnership For Peace” (PFP)
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(June 13, 2004) - An MH-60S Knight Hawk extracts Search and Rescue (SAR) Swimmers assigned to Helicopter Combat Support Squadron Six (HC-6), embarked aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Saipan (LHA 2), from the waters of the Atlantic Ocean. The swimmers are conducting drills on their SAR skills, while completing their certifications for an upcoming scheduled deployment
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Atlantic Ocean (June 13, 2004) - An F-14B Tomcat assigned to the "Swordsmen" of Fighter Squadron Three Two (VF-32) launches from the flight deck of USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75).
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Atlantic Ocean (June 13, 2004) - An F/A-18C Hornet assigned to the "Raging Bulls" of Fighter Attack Squadron Three Seven (VFA-37) launches from the flight deck of USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75). Truman is one of seven aircraft carriers involved in Summer Pulse 2004. Summer Pulse 2004 is the simultaneous deployment of seven aircraft carrier strike groups (CSGs), demonstrating the ability of the Navy to provide credible combat power across the globe, in five theaters with other U.S., allied, and coalition military forces. Summer Pulse is the Navy’s first deployment under its new Fleet Readiness Plan (FRP).
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Army Master Sgt. Daniel Olivas, operations sergeant with Special Forces Operations Detachment 144, Alpha Company, 2nd Battalion, 1st Special Forces Group, Fort Lewis, Wash., departs an aircraft during High Altitude Low Opening (HALO) training over the Yukon Training Area during exercise Northern Edge 04 at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, June 12, 2004. Northern Edge is Alaska's annual joint training exercise designed to enhance interoperability joint service techniques and procedures.
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FIVE HILLS TRAINING AREA, Northeastern Mongolia – Combat videographer Lance Cpl. Tim Hernandez shows Mongolian Armed Forces Sgt. Khuchett Baatar how to use the sights on the M2 .50 caliber machine gun during Khaan Quest '04. Hernandez and 57 other Marines and sailors with the 3rd Force Service Support Group participated with the Mongolia Armed Forces’ 150th Peacekeeping Operations Unit in the bilateral training exercise aimed at improving working relationships between the two military forces.
Photo submitted 06/15/2004 Taken by Pfc. T. J. Kaemmerer
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FIVE HILLS TRAINING AREA, Northeastern Mongolia – Tactics instructor Staff Sgt. Jeffery Sundermier sits behind the MK-19 40mm automatic grenade launcher teaching Mongolian soldiers how to clear, load and fire the crew served weapon May 20 during Khaan Quest '04. Sundermier is with Tactics, Readiness and Training, 3rd Force Service Support Group. Marines and sailors with the 3rd Force Service Support Group participated with the Mongolia Armed Forces’ 150th Peacekeeping Operations Unit in the bilateral training exercise aimed at improving working relationships between the two military forces.
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FIVE HILLS TRAINING AREA, Northeastern Mongolia – Tactics instructor Staff Sgt. Jeffery Sundermier (right) teaches Marines and Mongolian soldiers proper rifle-handling techniques May 20 during Khaan Quest '04.
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MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. – A heavy weapons crew of British Marines assigned with 42 Commando, Royal Marines, fire a wire-guided, Milan Anti-Tank Missile System at a target within the G-3 Impact Range here June 8. The Royal Marines are conducting joint training and live-fire exercises with American, Dutch and French Marine units during Combined Joint Task Force Exercises held here this month.
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MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. – Frank J. Heirtzler, senior engineer at Foster-Miller, explains different mine countermeasure technologies being demonstrated during the Mine Warfare Day at Courthouse Bay here June 10. One of the vehicles shown during the event was the C-talon, which is an underwater crawling vehicle designed to neutralize underwater mines. During the event, static displays of different vehicles, along with system briefings, were available for the event guests.
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Petty Officer Second Class Joe McDaniel, corpsman, headquarters platoon, Company L, 3rd Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment, and 42-year-old Fort Worth, Texas, native, speaks to the father of a five-month-old baby boy in the village of Sahl Hawran, Iraq, June 12. McDaniel diagnosed the child with an ear infection during a prior visit to the village. McDaniel provided the father with follow-on advice for the baby who has since recovered from the ailment. The Reserve infantry company from Johnson City, Tenn., is attached to the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing to provide convoy security and conduct patrols in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
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Petty Officer Second Class Joe McDaniel, corpsman, headquarters platoon, Company L, 3rd Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment, and 42-year-old Fort Worth, Texas, native, inspects an Iraqi boy’s ear in the village of Sahl Hawran, Iraq, June 12. The corpsman volunteered his time to treat minor medical problems throughout the village during the visit. The Reserve infantry company from Johnson City, Tenn., is attached to the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing to provide convoy security and conduct patrols in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom
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Capt. Allen C. Laughlin (left), platoon commander, 2nd platoon, Company L, 3rd Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment, and 37-year-old Durham, N.C., native, hands candy to an Iraqi boy in the village of Sahl Hawran, Iraq, June 12, while other Marines from the company carry bottled water to the young boy's home. The Marines of the Reserve infantry unit from Johnson City, Tenn., brought clean drinking water and a physician to help solve some of the ongoing problems in the village.
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The awestruck look on the face of an Iraqi child made the visit worthwhile for the Marines of Company L, 3rd Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment, who had just given her soda and fruit in the village of Sahl Hawran, Iraq, June 12.
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Led by Petty Officer 2nd Class Brian Dessel, Marines from Battalion Landing Team 1st Bn., 6th Marines's Combined Anti-Armor Team carry a wounded Taliban guerilla to a helicopter June 13, 2004, in central Afghanistan. The Marines and Sailor are deployed with the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.
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Marines from the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) help a wounded Taliban fighter from a vehicle June 13, 2004, in central Afghanistan. The wounded fighter was later flown via helicopter to a military hospital where he received additional medical care.
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Marines and soldiers unload donated medical supplies at a medical clinic in Khalidiyah, Iraq. Ground was broken on a new medical clinic, part of a cooperative effort between Marines and soldiers from 1st Marine Division and local leaders in the Abu Fleis region of the city. (USMC photo by Gunnery Sgt. Mark Oliva)
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Children and parents rushed to get boxes of water during a ground breaking ceremony held June 9, in the city of Al Kaladiyah. Marines from 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment's Civil Affair Group delivered pallets of bottled water, toys, clothes, Spirit of America bags with school supplies and playground equipment for the children and parents of the city. (USMC photo by Sgt. Jose L. Garcia)
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Civil Affairs Group team, distributes pens to the children of Al Kaladiyah during a groundbreaking ceremony held June 9. Marines from 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment's Civil Affair Group delivered pallets of bottled water, toys, clothes, Spirit of America bags with school supplies and playground equipment for the children and parents of the city
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The children of Al Kaladiyah had smiles on their faces during a groundbreaking ceremony held June 9. Marines from 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment's Civil Affair Group delivered pallets of bottled water, toys, clothes, Spirit of America bags with school supplies and playground equipment for the children and parents of the city.
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The children of Al Kaladiyah had smiles on their faces during a groundbreaking ceremony held June 9. Marines from 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment's Civil Affair Group delivered pallets of bottled water, toys, clothes, bags with school supplies donated by Spirit of America, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit organization and playground equipment for the children and parents of the city
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Sgt. Brandon Kovach, a Civil Affairs Group team leader with 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines, plays with the children of Al Kaladiyah during a groundbreaking ceremony held June 9. Inside the school playground stood a set of monkey bars, swing sets, balance beams, see-saws, and a merry-go-round. The CAG team delivered pallets of bottled water, toys, clothes, Spirit of America bags with school supplies and refreshments for the children and parents of the city.
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Local leaders from western Al Anbar Province gathered June 10 to discuss the future turn over of Iraq's sovereignty June 30, with the battalion commanders from Regimental Combat Team 7
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ATLANTA - JUNE 16: U.S. Army Cpl. Andrew Clark, of Atlanta, Georgia, (C) hugs his father Chuck upon his arrival at Hartsfield Jackson International Airport June 16, 2004 in Atlanta, Georgia. Clark was among 252 soldiers who returned to the U.S. on a 15-day rest and recuperation (R&R) leave. The R&R flights are being resumed to Atlanta and Dallas after being stopped for six-months
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ATLANTA - JUNE 16: U.S. Army Spc. Jody Payne (R) is greeted by his wife Jennifer upon his arrival at Hartsfield Jackson International Airport June 16, 2004 in Atlanta, Georgia. Clark was among 252 soldiers who returned to the U.S. on a 15-day rest and recuperation (R&R) leave
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German Panzer Officer Candidates visit the French SAUMUR (http://www.deutschesheer.de/relaunch/contentbase2.nsf/docname/30EA10A7331A54A9C1256EB50047DBDD)
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Austrian Pilots begin training in Swiss F-5 'Tigers'. Twelve Swiss F-5E's will be leased to the Austrian Air Force to augment aging J-35F fighters
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Austrian J-35F Draken
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15 June 2004
New look for Aussie soldiers
Australian soldiers will soon be sporting new, safer and more comfortable headgear - thanks to rigorous testing of new helmet designs by the Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO).DSTO has been working closely with the Defence Materiel Organisation (DMO) to evaluate a range of helmet options. The helmet is 300 grams lighter than the current in-service model and is manufactured to much tighter specifications.
Iranian President Mohammad Khatami, aims a rifle during his visit from Iran's Defense Ministry in Tehran in this photo taken on Sunday June, 13, 2004 and made available Tuesday June 15, 2004. In a letter to the leaders of Britain, Germany and France, Khatami accused the EU trio of working with Tehran's arch-foe Washington to heap pressure on the Islamic Republic.
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The son of Karim Darham, a senior leader of the militia loyal to Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and who was killed last week by U.S. troops during clashes, is placed with a rifle in front of a portrait of al-Sadr with a rifle during a demonstration against U.S. forces in in the Sadr City district of Baghdad, Tuesday June 15, 2004.
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An Iraqi boy holds an M79 grenade launcher as he marches with a group of Shiite muslim supporters of cleric Muqtada al-Sadr holding an anti-USA military demonstration in the Sadr City district of Baghdad, Tuesday June 15, 2004.
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[quote]An Iraqi woman raises a weapon over her head as a group of Shiite Muslim supporters of cleric Muqtada al-Sadr hold a demonstration against the US military in the Sadr City district of Baghdad, Iraq Tuesday June 15, 2004.
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Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr addresses followers during Friday prayers in the town of Kufa in this May 21, 2004 file photo. Moqtada al-Sadr sent his fighters home on Wednesday in what may mark the end of a 10-week revolt against U.S.-led forces that once engulfed southern Iraq and Shi'ite Islam's holiest shrines.
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Iraqi firefighters try to extinguish a smouldering oil pipeline north of Faw, Iraq Tuesday June 15, 2004. Explosions ripped through two oil pipelines in southern Iraq on Tuesday, cutting oil exports from the south by more than half, the Iraqi South Oil Company said.
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Repairs are carried out on the Kirkuk-Turkey pipeline, Iraq (news - web sites)'s main oil export artery, which takes crude from the Kirkuk oilfields to Turkey's Mediterranean terminal of Ceyhan. Ghazi Talabani, the security chief for the oil fields around Kirkuk, has been assassinated outside his home
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The body of a senior official of Iraq (news - web sites)'s North Oil Company, Ghazi Talabani, 70, lays covered by a sheet June 16, 2004 in the northern city of Kirkuk, after he was assassinated by gunmen as he was being driven to work. With all Iraq's oil exports halted by sabotage, gunmen killed a top Iraqi oil official on Wednesday in a new blow to an interim government reeling from violence two weeks before U.S.-led occupation formally ends.
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A television image shows Iraqi youths stone a burning vehicle after a car bomb attack destroyed an Iraqi police car and a civilian vehicle carrying foreigners, in Ramadi June 16, 2004. The attack killed at least four Iraqis. Witnesses said several foreigners were also believed to be among the casualties. Jabar Humadi, a doctor at Ramadi's main hospital, said four bodies had been brought in after the blast.
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A grab from a video on an Islamist Internet site shows Marshall Johnson blindfolded with a piece of white fabric and tape. The US hostage was wearing a red shirt torn in parts so a tattoo on his left shoulder became visible
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Marines from the 1st Battalion 5th Marines study flyers of Jordanian-born militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Fallujah, Iraq, April 24, 2004. With al-Zarqawi's public profile in the terror world growing, U.S. officials say he's joined the club of leading terrorists that includes Osama bin Laden, his deputy Ayman al-Zawahri and few, if any, others
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Afghan soldiers holds the remains of the rocket landed inside compound of the Afghan Intelligence Agency in Kabul on Tuesday night, June 15, 2004. One person was injured and taken to hospital, a senior military commander, said.
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Officials at Kabul Airport move the coffin of a Chinese worker killed in an attack in Kunduz. Four Afghans including two children were killed in a bomb blast in the northeastern city of Kunduz, less than a week after 11 Chinese road workers were shot dead near the city, officials said
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KABUL, AFGHANISTAN: A Canadian soldier of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) (R) stands to gets her voting card for Canadian Federal Electionsfrom an army official in Kabul, 16 June 2004. Canadian troops, with some 1,500 soldiers in the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan are among the first citizens to vote in their polls, still some weeks away. Afghanistan is moving towards its first democratic elections, scheduled for September 2004, amid a background of increased attacks against electoral workers and ongoing insecurity some two and a half years after the fall of the Taliban regime.
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German soldiers help a mock protester during the Baltops military exercise in Ustka, in northern Poland, June 16, 2004. More than 5,000 sea, air and ground forces from 13 countries are taking part in the annual Baltic Operations exercise, which started Monday and runs through June 19 in northern Europe.
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Israeli soldiers scuffle with Palestinians during a protest against the construction of a new section of the separation barrier which goes over their land in the northern West Bank village of Al-Zawieh. Israel began building work to incorporate the major Jewish settlement of Ariel within its West Bank separation barrier
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An Israeli soldier blocks Palestinian villagers from the West Bank village of Iskaka. Hundreds of Palestinian villagers pelted Israeli bulldozers with stones as they began work to incorporate the major Jewish settlement of Ariel within the West Bank separation barrier
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A Palestinian youth struggles with Israeli soldiers as they try to arrest him during a demonstration protesting against the construction of Israel's separation barrier, in the village of Al-Zawiya, in the northern West Bank, south-west of the Palestinian city of Nablus, Tuesday, June 15, 2004. Palestinian landowners and Israeli forces have clashed for a number of days at the site where Israel is building the barrier
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An Israeli soldier covers the camera of a journalist as he prevents him from shooting during a demonstration protesting against the construction of Israel's separation barrier, in the village of Al-Zawiya, in the northern West Bank, south-west of the Palestinian city of Nablus, Tuesday, June 15, 2004. Palestinian landowners and Israeli forces have clashed for a number of days at the site where Israel is building the barrier
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A soldier waves his weapon at Palestinian youth protesters as they clash with Israeli security forces between the Palestinian West Bank village of Iskaka and the Israeli settlement of Ariel, Wednesday June 16, 2004.
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A Palestinian man scuffles with an Israeli soldier during a protest against the construction of the controversial Israeli security barrier, near the West Bank village of Skaka, June 16, 2004.
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A'RAM, WEST BANK - JUNE 16: Palestinians are joined by Israeli left-wing activists as they demonstrate against Israel's separation barrier where it is under construction June 16, 2004 alongside the West Bank Palestinian town of A'Ram. Israel's controversial wall will cut off tens of thousands of Palestinians from neighboring Jerusalem where many of them have families and work.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon smiles as he leaves the polling station after voting in a referendum of his Likud party in the southern city of Sderot in this Sunday May 2, 2004 file photo. Israel's attorney general Meni Mazuz on Tuesday June 15, 2004 informed Sharon that he is closing a corruption case against him, Israel TV's Channel 10 reported. The decision ends months of uncertainty over the prime minister's political future and boosting chances for an Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip
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Israeli girls donning evening dresses participate in a beauty pageant in the neighborhood of Gilo, an area Israel captured in the 1967 Mideast war and later annexed as part of Jerusalem, Tuesday June 15, 2004. Eight Palestinian girls from the nearby West Bank town of Bethlehem, all of them Christians, were to participate in the Miss Barrier Line contest, named after the line that separates the West Bank from the neighborhood, but the girls, citing threats on their lives from fellow Palestinians, slowlybacked out over the past months
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A Haitian artisan boat vendor passes near a vessel with Brazilian Marines of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, June 15, 2004.
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Brazilian Marines of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti stand guard during the arrival of two vessels from Brazil in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, June 15, 2004. The boats brought about 95 Brazilian soldiers, UN vehicles, food, water, among other things to aid those affected by floods.
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Brazilian Marines of United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti unload containers with aid during the arrival of two vessels from Brazil in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, June 15, 2004.
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Bosnian Muslim forensic experts unearth bodies of victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, from a mass grave in the eastern village of Sandici, June 16, 2004. This was the site of Europe's worst atrocity since World War Two. A Bosnian Serb government commission produced a report last week in which it admitted clearly that Serb forces murdered thousands of Muslims in Srebrenica, a massacre the government has always denied. The commission also identified locations of 32 new mass graves, including this one in the village of Sandici.
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A Russian Proton-M rocket, carrying a U.S. Intelsat-10 satellite, rises at a launch pad of the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Central Asian nation of Kazakhstan, Thursday, June 11, 2004. Russian space officials on Tuesday delayed the launch of a U.S. telecommunications satellite into orbit for technical reasons.
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Members of the Free Aceh Movement hold a drill at Lhok Juk village. Indonesian officials urged Acehnese guerrillas to end a 27-year battle for independence after Swedish authorities arrested their exiled leaders, but the rebels said the fight would go on.(
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Ishak Daud, GAM's chief of staff in Aceh stands beside hostages at Lhok Juk village. Indonesian officials urged Acehnese guerrillas to end a 27-year battle for independence after Swedish authorities arrested their exiled leaders, but the rebels said the fight would go on
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PAJU, REPUBLIC OF KOREA - JUNE 16: A South Korean soldier looks on as a battery of propaganda loudspeakers are removed on the border with North Korea on 16 June 2004 in Paju, South Korea. The removal of the propaganda devices along the world?s last Cold War frontier follows on from the inter-Korean summit accord which was reached in 2000
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South Korean soldiers remove loudspeakers used for propaganda near the demilitarized zone between South and North Korea, in Paju city, north of Seoul, Wednesday, June 16, 2004. North and South Korea have ended propaganda broadcasts over loudspeakers along their heavily militarized border as part of efforts to reduce tension on their divided peninsula
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U.S. Marines assigned to the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (24th MEU) are briefed prior to being transported to the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge (LHD 3).
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U.S. Marines assigned to the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (24th MEU) make their way to Onslow Beach where Landing Craft, Air Cushions (LCAC) assigned to Assault Craft Unit Four (ACU-4) wait to transport them to the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge (LHD 3).
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Onslow Bay, N.C. (Jun. 9, 2004) - Assault Craft Unit Four (ACU-4) Landing Craft, Air Cushion (LCAC) Six Nine approaches the well deck of the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge (LHD 3) carrying elements of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU). Kearsarge is surged deployed to transport elements of the 24th MEU Air Combat Element to the Central Command Area of Responsibility in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and the Global War on Terrorism.
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040609-N-2972R-011 Onslow Bay, N.C. (Jun. 9, 2004) - A Landing Craft, Air Cushion (LCAC) assigned to Assault Craft Unit Four (ACU-4) prepares to depart the well deck of the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge (LHD 3) as another LCAC waits astern to transport elements of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) to the ship.
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Marines perform maintenance on their weapons in the amphibious assault ship's upper vehicle storage area. USS Kearsarge (LHD 3) is surge deployed to transport elements of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) to the Central Command Area of Responsibility (AOR) in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and the Global War on Terrorism
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CH-53E Super Stallion helicopters assigned to Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron Four Six Four (HMH-464) take off from the flight deck of the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge (LHD 3).
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(June 11, 2004) - Sailors from Combat Systems department upload a Rolling Airframe Missile aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge (LHD 3)
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Ustka, Poland (June 10, 2004) - Infantrymen from Charlie Company, 178th Infantry Air Assault, 66th Brigade, 35th Infantry Division, storm a building hallway during urban assault training. Baltic Operations (BALTOPS) 2004 is an individual combined maritime and land exercise in the Baltic Sea, conducted in the spirit of “Partnership For Peace” (PFP)
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(June 13, 2004) - An MH-60S Knight Hawk extracts Search and Rescue (SAR) Swimmers assigned to Helicopter Combat Support Squadron Six (HC-6), embarked aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Saipan (LHA 2), from the waters of the Atlantic Ocean. The swimmers are conducting drills on their SAR skills, while completing their certifications for an upcoming scheduled deployment
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Atlantic Ocean (June 13, 2004) - An F-14B Tomcat assigned to the "Swordsmen" of Fighter Squadron Three Two (VF-32) launches from the flight deck of USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75).
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Atlantic Ocean (June 13, 2004) - An F/A-18C Hornet assigned to the "Raging Bulls" of Fighter Attack Squadron Three Seven (VFA-37) launches from the flight deck of USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75). Truman is one of seven aircraft carriers involved in Summer Pulse 2004. Summer Pulse 2004 is the simultaneous deployment of seven aircraft carrier strike groups (CSGs), demonstrating the ability of the Navy to provide credible combat power across the globe, in five theaters with other U.S., allied, and coalition military forces. Summer Pulse is the Navy’s first deployment under its new Fleet Readiness Plan (FRP).
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Army Master Sgt. Daniel Olivas, operations sergeant with Special Forces Operations Detachment 144, Alpha Company, 2nd Battalion, 1st Special Forces Group, Fort Lewis, Wash., departs an aircraft during High Altitude Low Opening (HALO) training over the Yukon Training Area during exercise Northern Edge 04 at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, June 12, 2004. Northern Edge is Alaska's annual joint training exercise designed to enhance interoperability joint service techniques and procedures.
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FIVE HILLS TRAINING AREA, Northeastern Mongolia – Combat videographer Lance Cpl. Tim Hernandez shows Mongolian Armed Forces Sgt. Khuchett Baatar how to use the sights on the M2 .50 caliber machine gun during Khaan Quest '04. Hernandez and 57 other Marines and sailors with the 3rd Force Service Support Group participated with the Mongolia Armed Forces’ 150th Peacekeeping Operations Unit in the bilateral training exercise aimed at improving working relationships between the two military forces.
Photo submitted 06/15/2004 Taken by Pfc. T. J. Kaemmerer
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FIVE HILLS TRAINING AREA, Northeastern Mongolia – Tactics instructor Staff Sgt. Jeffery Sundermier sits behind the MK-19 40mm automatic grenade launcher teaching Mongolian soldiers how to clear, load and fire the crew served weapon May 20 during Khaan Quest '04. Sundermier is with Tactics, Readiness and Training, 3rd Force Service Support Group. Marines and sailors with the 3rd Force Service Support Group participated with the Mongolia Armed Forces’ 150th Peacekeeping Operations Unit in the bilateral training exercise aimed at improving working relationships between the two military forces.
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FIVE HILLS TRAINING AREA, Northeastern Mongolia – Tactics instructor Staff Sgt. Jeffery Sundermier (right) teaches Marines and Mongolian soldiers proper rifle-handling techniques May 20 during Khaan Quest '04.
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MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. – A heavy weapons crew of British Marines assigned with 42 Commando, Royal Marines, fire a wire-guided, Milan Anti-Tank Missile System at a target within the G-3 Impact Range here June 8. The Royal Marines are conducting joint training and live-fire exercises with American, Dutch and French Marine units during Combined Joint Task Force Exercises held here this month.
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MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. – Frank J. Heirtzler, senior engineer at Foster-Miller, explains different mine countermeasure technologies being demonstrated during the Mine Warfare Day at Courthouse Bay here June 10. One of the vehicles shown during the event was the C-talon, which is an underwater crawling vehicle designed to neutralize underwater mines. During the event, static displays of different vehicles, along with system briefings, were available for the event guests.
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Petty Officer Second Class Joe McDaniel, corpsman, headquarters platoon, Company L, 3rd Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment, and 42-year-old Fort Worth, Texas, native, speaks to the father of a five-month-old baby boy in the village of Sahl Hawran, Iraq, June 12. McDaniel diagnosed the child with an ear infection during a prior visit to the village. McDaniel provided the father with follow-on advice for the baby who has since recovered from the ailment. The Reserve infantry company from Johnson City, Tenn., is attached to the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing to provide convoy security and conduct patrols in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
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Petty Officer Second Class Joe McDaniel, corpsman, headquarters platoon, Company L, 3rd Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment, and 42-year-old Fort Worth, Texas, native, inspects an Iraqi boy’s ear in the village of Sahl Hawran, Iraq, June 12. The corpsman volunteered his time to treat minor medical problems throughout the village during the visit. The Reserve infantry company from Johnson City, Tenn., is attached to the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing to provide convoy security and conduct patrols in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom
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Capt. Allen C. Laughlin (left), platoon commander, 2nd platoon, Company L, 3rd Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment, and 37-year-old Durham, N.C., native, hands candy to an Iraqi boy in the village of Sahl Hawran, Iraq, June 12, while other Marines from the company carry bottled water to the young boy's home. The Marines of the Reserve infantry unit from Johnson City, Tenn., brought clean drinking water and a physician to help solve some of the ongoing problems in the village.
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The awestruck look on the face of an Iraqi child made the visit worthwhile for the Marines of Company L, 3rd Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment, who had just given her soda and fruit in the village of Sahl Hawran, Iraq, June 12.
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Led by Petty Officer 2nd Class Brian Dessel, Marines from Battalion Landing Team 1st Bn., 6th Marines's Combined Anti-Armor Team carry a wounded Taliban guerilla to a helicopter June 13, 2004, in central Afghanistan. The Marines and Sailor are deployed with the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.
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Marines from the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) help a wounded Taliban fighter from a vehicle June 13, 2004, in central Afghanistan. The wounded fighter was later flown via helicopter to a military hospital where he received additional medical care.
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Marines and soldiers unload donated medical supplies at a medical clinic in Khalidiyah, Iraq. Ground was broken on a new medical clinic, part of a cooperative effort between Marines and soldiers from 1st Marine Division and local leaders in the Abu Fleis region of the city. (USMC photo by Gunnery Sgt. Mark Oliva)
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Children and parents rushed to get boxes of water during a ground breaking ceremony held June 9, in the city of Al Kaladiyah. Marines from 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment's Civil Affair Group delivered pallets of bottled water, toys, clothes, Spirit of America bags with school supplies and playground equipment for the children and parents of the city. (USMC photo by Sgt. Jose L. Garcia)
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Civil Affairs Group team, distributes pens to the children of Al Kaladiyah during a groundbreaking ceremony held June 9. Marines from 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment's Civil Affair Group delivered pallets of bottled water, toys, clothes, Spirit of America bags with school supplies and playground equipment for the children and parents of the city
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The children of Al Kaladiyah had smiles on their faces during a groundbreaking ceremony held June 9. Marines from 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment's Civil Affair Group delivered pallets of bottled water, toys, clothes, Spirit of America bags with school supplies and playground equipment for the children and parents of the city.
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The children of Al Kaladiyah had smiles on their faces during a groundbreaking ceremony held June 9. Marines from 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment's Civil Affair Group delivered pallets of bottled water, toys, clothes, bags with school supplies donated by Spirit of America, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit organization and playground equipment for the children and parents of the city
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Sgt. Brandon Kovach, a Civil Affairs Group team leader with 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines, plays with the children of Al Kaladiyah during a groundbreaking ceremony held June 9. Inside the school playground stood a set of monkey bars, swing sets, balance beams, see-saws, and a merry-go-round. The CAG team delivered pallets of bottled water, toys, clothes, Spirit of America bags with school supplies and refreshments for the children and parents of the city.
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Local leaders from western Al Anbar Province gathered June 10 to discuss the future turn over of Iraq's sovereignty June 30, with the battalion commanders from Regimental Combat Team 7
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ATLANTA - JUNE 16: U.S. Army Cpl. Andrew Clark, of Atlanta, Georgia, (C) hugs his father Chuck upon his arrival at Hartsfield Jackson International Airport June 16, 2004 in Atlanta, Georgia. Clark was among 252 soldiers who returned to the U.S. on a 15-day rest and recuperation (R&R) leave. The R&R flights are being resumed to Atlanta and Dallas after being stopped for six-months
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ATLANTA - JUNE 16: U.S. Army Spc. Jody Payne (R) is greeted by his wife Jennifer upon his arrival at Hartsfield Jackson International Airport June 16, 2004 in Atlanta, Georgia. Clark was among 252 soldiers who returned to the U.S. on a 15-day rest and recuperation (R&R) leave
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German Panzer Officer Candidates visit the French SAUMUR (http://www.deutschesheer.de/relaunch/contentbase2.nsf/docname/30EA10A7331A54A9C1256EB50047DBDD)
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Austrian Pilots begin training in Swiss F-5 'Tigers'. Twelve Swiss F-5E's will be leased to the Austrian Air Force to augment aging J-35F fighters
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Austrian J-35F Draken
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15 June 2004
New look for Aussie soldiers
Australian soldiers will soon be sporting new, safer and more comfortable headgear - thanks to rigorous testing of new helmet designs by the Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO).DSTO has been working closely with the Defence Materiel Organisation (DMO) to evaluate a range of helmet options. The helmet is 300 grams lighter than the current in-service model and is manufactured to much tighter specifications.