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Albert Iganchio, a subsistence clerk and a Agana, Guam native, with the 565th Quartermaster Company, 749th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, 4th Sustainment Brigade, 310th Expeditionary Sustainment Command, restocks the potato chips at the Southside subsistence site on Contingency Operating Base Adder, Iraq. (Photo by: 1st Lt. Patryk Korzeniewski)

Photo by Pfc. Amy Lane. Iraqi airmen apply a tourniquet to Spc. Avery Brown, a medic with the 4th Sustainment Brigade, 310th Expeditionary Sustainment Command and a Rosenberg, Texas native, during the final test of their combat life saver training on Contingency Operating Base Adder, Iraq.

BAGHDAD – Firefighters watch as a controlled fire builds strength under the “wing” of the aircraft simulator at Baghdad International Airport May 18. The newly completed simulator is the culmination of efforts by multiple organizations in Iraq and will be used to ensure military and civilian firefighters are able to complete annual training requirements. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Randy Redman)

SATHER AIR BASE, Iraq -- Lt Col Mark O'Reilly, top right, Iraq Training and Advisory Mission-Air director of maintenance, and other Air Force members shaved their heads to help support Colonel O'Reilly's father during his cancer treatments May 6. More than 10 Air Force members shaved their heads to support Colonel O'Reilly's father, who is a former marine and bronze star with valor recipient. Colonel O'Reilly is deployed from Kadina Air Base, Japan, and is a native of Rockland, Mass. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Levi Riendeau)

CAMP TAJI, Iraq -- Tech. Sgt. RK Stephey, communications advisor for the base transition team here, stands beside a Doppler VHF Omni-directional Radio system he and experts from Hanscom Air Force Base, Mass., installed for the Iraqi Army Aviation Command. Sergeant Stephey redeployed back to Misawa Air Base, Japan, after six months of helping his Iraqi partners set up their first defense networking system and initiating various communications programs. Sergeant Stephey calls Prescott, Ariz., home. (U.S. Air Force/Tech. Sgt. Jason Lake)

ALI AIR BASE, Iraq -- Iraqi airmen place a crate of AK-47 assault rifles into the back of a truck after verifying serial numbers April 27. The weapons were delivered as part of the process for opening an Iraqi air force armory so the Iraqis can provide their own base security. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Levi Riendeau)

Iraqi Army Soldiers with the 7th Iraqi Army Division use an remote arm to disassemble an improvised explosive device during a training exercise held by Company A, Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 4th Advise and Assist Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division, at Al Asad Air Base, Iraq, May 18, 2011. The exercise was a culminating training event that that tested the IA Soldiers ability to react and respond to possible IEDs. (U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Brian Chaney, 55th Combat Camera Company)

Army Spc. Diana Ortiz signs a hand receipt after accounting for equipment at Contingency Operating Site Marez, Iraq, April 26, 2011. U.S. Army photo by Spc. Terence Ewings

During a May 7, 2009, visit to Camp Leatherneck in Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates promises Marines he will ensure they have the medical capabilities they will need if they’re wounded. U.S. medical personnel in Afghanistan and Germany say they’re seeing the fruits of that increased capability in lives saved. U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Jerry Morrison

Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III applauds as Army Chief of Staff Gen. Martin E. Dempsey presents the Hall of Heroes induction plaque to George Kaho'ohanohano, nephew of Korean War Medal of Honor recipient Army Pfc. Anthony Kaho'ohanohano, during a ceremony at the Pentagon, May 3, 2011. DOD photo by Cherie Cullen