Jeremy .T Lock, Seven-Time

Under the cover of darkness, Platoon Leader SFC Steven Kirk from 4th Platoon Alpha Company, 1/17th Infantry 172nd Stryker BDE Ft. Wainwright, Alaska, has a smoke while scanning his target area for suspicious activity or movement while on a Small Kill Team (SKT) mission at an undisclosed location in the desert July 12, 2006, in Mosul, Iraq. Soldiers on SKT missions are randomly placed in and around the city to watch for suspicious activity or movement. The goal of the mission is to kill anti-Iraqi Forces placing IED's. Missions can last anywhere from 30 minutes to 72 hours.

CPL David Stigers from Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 6th Infantry Regiment, 1st Armored Division, Baumholder, GE, administers first aid to an injured Iraqi man that was shot on August 16, 2006. U.S. Forces came under fire from anti-Iraqi Forces during a Traffic Control Point (TCP) on Alternate Supply Route Michigan in Tameem, Ramadi, Iraq. TCP's are performed by pulling over random vehicles and searching the vehicle and it's occupants for weapons or explosives being transported into the city.

SGT John Christoffersen from Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 6 Infantry Regiment, 1st Armored Division, Baumholder, GE, heads back to base on September 2, 2006, in a Bradley after conducting an early morning raid, looking for weapon caches on a local school, and several houses in the Tameem district of Ramadi, Iraq, during Operation Caribbean Stud. No significant evidence was found. The mission is part of the continuing support of the 1-1 Armored Division. 1-1AD is deployed with 1st Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward) in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in the Al Anbar province of Iraq (Multi National Forces-West) to develop the Iraqi security forces, facilitate the development of official rule of law through democratic government reforms, and continue the development of a market based economy centered on Iraqi reconstruction.

Lance Cpl. Brett Herman from the 3rd Low Altitude Air Defense Battalion, Camp Pendleton, California, break dances during some down time before moving to the next firing range in the Arta region of Djibouti, Africa, on January 23, 2008. The Marines fired the M203 Grenade Launcher AT-4 and threw M67 Fragment Grenades for practice, while deployed with the Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa, located at Camp Lemonier, Djibouti, Africa.

U.S. Military members run through some tactical movement drills in case they are attacked during a 10-day French Tactical Desert Survival Training Course on May 7, 2008, while deployed to Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa, located at Camp Lemonier, Djibouti. The students are taught to conserve as much energy during the heat of the day and to move at night when it is cooler. Forty U.S. Military members stationed at Camp Lemonier, Djibouti, volunteered for the 10-day course taught by French Marines from the 5th Regiment Overseas Infantry. The training was held in the desert outside Djibouti City.

French soldiers chase down papers picked up by a small dust tornado that traveled through their camp during a 10-day French Tactical Desert Survival Training Course on May 8, 2008, in the Djiboutian desert, Djibouti, Africa.

U.S. Naval Cmdr. Chad Reed from the Test and Evaluation Squadron Patuxent River Naval Air Station, Maryland, dives down to explore the outer reef at White Sands beach in the Gulf of Aden on June 1, 2008, during a Morale and Recreation trip while deployed to Combined Joint Force - Horn of Africa, located at Camp Lemonier, Djibouti, Africa.

An older man is crushed while he tries to get out of the way of a huge number of Haitians making their way to the relief supplies (food and water) the U.S. Army Soldiers with the 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, NC, were handing out on January 20, 2010, at the stadium in Port au Prince, Haiti, for Operation Unified Response. As more and more Haitians heard of the distribution being handed out by the soldiers, the distribution line turned into a huge gathering of people being pushed from the back. The soldiers stood their ground and handed out the majority of the relief for as long as they could, before they were hugely outnumbered and overrun. A devastating earthquake hit the region on January 12, 2010. Since then USSOUTHCOM has distributed more than 636,951 bottles of water and more than 473,325 Humanitarian Daily Rations.

Debris and wreckage is piled up on March 16, 2011, in Kamaishi, Japan, after a 9.0 earthquake that struck offshore of Japan on March 11, 2011, causing a Tsunami that destroyed everything in its path, and killing more than 18,000 people in the disaster.

A KC-135 Stratotanker seems tiny in comparison to the huge storm its flying through on its way to refuel a C-17 Globemaster on July 12, 2012, off Florida's east coast.

Two young boys run around and play with toy guns in the Ger District in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Ger districts usually occupy poor quality land on the outskirts of town.

Milk is poured over the head of the winning horse as a sign of good luck after a race. Horses are greatly cherished in Mongolian culture, especially by the nomads, because horses are very useful to people's daily lives and livelihood. Horse racing is the second most popular event in Mongolia, after traditional wrestling. There is a traditional Mongolian saying, "A Mongol without a horse is like a bird without wings."

U.S. Air Force Explosive Ordinance Disposal (EOD) technician Staff Sgt. Salvatore DiGiacomo from the 514th Civil Engineer Squadron, Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey, demonstrates the EOD 9 bomb suit and helmet ensemble operational equipment on August 21, 2012, during Air Force Week in New York City, New York.

A Sadhu (holy man) reaches out and blesses a man on February 6, 2013, in Allahabad, India, during the Kumbh Mela. Other activities besides bathing include religious discussions, devotional singing, mass feeding of holy men and women and the poor, and religious assemblies. "Kumbh Mela" is a mass Hindu pilgrimage of faith in which Hindus gather to bathe in a sacred river. The event is believed to be the largest religious gathering on earth, and is held every 12 years on the banks of the 'Sangam'- the confluence of the holy rivers Ganga, Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati. A bath here is said to wash away all of one's sins and free one from the cycle of rebirth. It is considered to be largest peaceful gathering in the world with over 100 million people from January 14 - March 15, 2013.