The Boeing Company's Delta II space launch vehicle lifts off from complex 17A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., Sept. 25, 2005, carrying the Department of Defense NAVSTAR Global Positioning Satellite IIR-14 (M) into orbit.

DoD photo by
Jerry Cannon and Robert Murray, InDyne Inc.

U.S. Navy Electronic Technicians 1st Class William Helm and 3rd Class Dustin Felton work aloft on one of USS Tarawa's radars while at anchor in the Suez Canal Oct. 1, 2005. Tarawa (LHA 1) just completed its participation in Exercise Bright Star '05 as the flag ship for Expeditionary Strike Group One which is currently on a regularly scheduled deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 3rd Class Tony Spiker

U.S. Army Soldiers from 2nd Brigade, 22nd Battalion, 10th Mountain Division along with Iraqi army soldiers wait for UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters to arrive after their successful air assault mission in Baghdad, Iraq, Oct. 5, 2005.

U.S. Army photo by
Spc. Ronald Shaw Jr.

U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Victor Fontan from the 789th Explosive Ordnance Disposal team, counts approximately 900 boxes of Soviet rockets stored in a cave at a former Soviet Union Training Camp north of Kandahar City, Afghanistan, Oct. 7, 2005.

The objective is to secure, relocate or destroy the ammunition and to assess the quantity found at the sites.

U.S. Army Photo by Pfc. Leslie Angulo