A Purple Heart Medal is worn by a U.S. Marine from the 1st Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 5 after Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen. Michael W.

Hagee presented him and four others with the medal at Camp Baharia Mess Hall in Iraq May 29, 2006.

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Adaecus G. Brooks

A BQM-74E aerial target launches June 8, 2006, from the flight deck of the amphibious dock landing ship USS Tortuga (LSD 46), which is currently participating in Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training in the South China Sea.

U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class John L. Beeman

Airman Kevin Yale Airman Daniel Joyce does a fuse check on bombs at a base supporting Operating Enduring Freedom on Wednesday, May 17, 2006.

The Airman, of the 40th Air Expeditionary Group, deployed here from Barksdale Air Force Base.

U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Patrick Mitchell

Spc. Christopher Starr from the 1st Special Troops Battalion, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, gives part of a meal-ready-to-eat (MRE) to a six-year-old Iraqi girl in Husiniyah, Iraq on June 3, 2006.

U.S. Navy photo by
Photographer's Mate 1st Class Michael Larson