Let's Thank Our Vets......all of them (delivery, law enforcement, ARM)

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Memorial Service At Uss Yorktown Honors Fallen Pearl Harbor Heroes - A veteran tosses a wreath into Charleston Harbor
from USS Yorktown (CV 10) during the Pearl Harbor 71st Anniversary Memorial Service, December 7th, 2012, at the Patriots Point
Naval and Maritime Museum, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. Tossing a wreath into the sea has been a time-honored Naval
tradition symbolizing burial at sea. The ceremony was held in honor of the 25 known men from South Carolina who gave their lives
during the December 7th, 1941, Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and other military installations.

U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Rasheen Douglas
Object Name: 121207-F-ER496-026
Special Instructions: Released by Joint Base Charleston Public Affairs; Submitted by Staff Sgt. Rasheen A. Douglas via DVIDS.
Credit: U.S. Air Force
Copyright Notice: Public Domain

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Soldiers commemorate 9/11 on Bagram Air Field - Command Sergeant Major Charles V. Sasser Jr., right, and Major General
William C. Mayville Jr., the command team of the 1st Infantry Division and Combined Joint Task Force-1, render a salute during a
9/11 remembrance ceremony on Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan, September 11th, 2012.

Object Name: 120911-A-RW508-001
Special Instructions: Released Staff Sgt. Dave Overson, 115th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment, via DVIDS.
Credit: U.S. Army
Copyright Notice: Public Domain

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24th MEU Marines complete first week of training in Djibouti - Lance Corporal Justin Smith, an assault climber and Charlotte,
North Carolina, native with Charlie Company, Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 24th Marine Expeditionary
Unit, properly demonstrates how to start a survival fire aboard Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, August 25th, 2012. The class is a part of
a Training Force, or T-Force, package focused on primitive infantry skills. The 24th MEU is deployed with the Iwo Jima Amphibious
Ready Group as a theater reserve and crisis response force throughout the U.S. Central Command in the Navy's 5th Fleet area of
responsibility.

Object Name: 120825-M-KU932-006
Special Instructions: Released, Capt. Robert Shuford, the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit Public Affairs Officer via DVIDS.
Credit: U.S. Marines
Copyright Notice: Public Domain

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Florida National Guard preparing for Tropical Storm Isaac - Master Sergeant James Kersey (left) and Sergeant First Class
Chris Brunner of the 53rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, monitor the track of Tropical Storm Isaac from the Florida National Guard's
Joint Emergency Operations Center in St. Augustine, Florida, August 22nd, 2012. The Florida National Guard was monitoring official
forecasts for the storm in anticipation of the storm reaching Florida.

Object Name: 120822-F-RH998-001
Special Instructions: Released, Kielbasa, Thomas E MIL, NG FL ARNG, via DVIDS.
Credit: U.S. Army
Copyright Notice: Public Domain

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Montford Point Marines honored at Marine Barracks Washington - Sergeant Major Michael Barrett, 17th sergeant major of the
Marine Corps, personally thanks every Montford Point Marine in attendance before a Congressional Gold Medal presentation ceremony
at the historic parade grounds of Marine Barracks Washington June 28th, 2012. In 1942, President Roosevelt established a
presidential directive giving African Americans an opportunity to be recruited into the Marine Corps. Between 1942 and 1949
approximately 20,000 African American Marines received basic training at the segregated Montford Point instead of the traditional boot
camps of Parris Island, South Carolina and San Diego, California. These men fought for their country with honor and valor that are
hallmarks of the Corps, but they were not treated as equals to their white counterparts at the time. General James F. Amos,
commandant of the Marine Corps, set out to begin to right this wrong when he invited the Montford Point Marines to the Barracks
August 26th, 2011 to be the guests of honor at a Friday Evening Parade, bringing their story to the national forefront and starting a
chain of events that lead to this historic day.

Object Name: 120628-M-OU625-001
Special Instructions: RELEASED by Cpl. Jeremy Ware, Marine Barracks 8th & I , Via DVIDS.
Credit: U.S. Marines
Copyright Notice: Public Domain

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USS John C. Stennis - Boatswain's Mate Seaman Apprentice Azusena Roman, of Los Angeles, identifies contacts from the
starboard forward lookout watch aboard the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74). John C. Stennis is deployed to the U.S.
5th Fleet area of responsibility conducting maritime security operations, theater security cooperation efforts and support missions for
Operation Enduring Freedom.

U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Kenneth Abbate/Released
Object Name: 121208-N-OY799-218
Releasing Authority: Lt. Cmdr. Zachary Harrell, Public Affairs Officer USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74), via DVIDS.
Credit: U.S. Navy
Copyright Notice: Public Domain

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Annual Toys for Tots kicks off holiday season around Yokota AB - U.S. Marine Corps Sergeant Jeremiah Crane, right, U.S.
Forces, Japan, explains how to use a horse toy to children at Ajiro orphanage in Akiruno city, Tokyo, December 14th, 2012 during the
annual USMC Reserve Toys for Tots drive. In 1947, a group of U.S. Marine Reservists collected and distributed 5,000 toys to children
in need on Christmas Eve in the Los Angeles area. The USMC has distributed more than 300 million toys to 150 million children.

U.S. Air Force photo by Osakabe Yasuo.
Special Instructions: Capt. Raymond Geoffroy, 374th Airlift Wing Public Affairs, Chief, Public Affairs, 374th Airlift Wing

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Christmas Visit - Cryptologic Technician (Technical) Seaman Apprentice Ryan Aker leads students from Ikego Elementary School
onto the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS McCampbell (DDG 85). Each year during the holiday season the students
visit ships assigned to Destroyer Squadron (DESRON) 15 at Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Japan, to treat the Sailors to Christmas carols.
McCampbell is part of the George Washington Carrier Strike Group and is forward deployed to Yokosuka, Japan.

U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Declan Barnes/Released
Object Name: 121213-N-TG831-007
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Credit: U.S. Navy
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Commando Santa Visits The Hurlburt Field Library - Shelby and Jack Sophie, children of U.S. Air Force Major John Sophie, from
the 14th Weapons Squadron, sit on Commando Santa's lap at the library on Hurlburt Field, Florida, December 1st, 2012.
Commando Santa listened to children's holiday wishes and gave out wrapped gifts.

U.S. Air Force Photo/ Staff Sgt. John Bainter.
Object Name: 121201-F-RS318-030.
Special Instructions: Released by TSgt Vanessa Valentine, NCOIC, Hurlburt Field Public Affairs, 1 SOW/PA.
Credit: U.S. Air Force.
Copyright Notice: Public Domain

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Cool Santa - "Santa Claus" rides through the Zone II Dining Facility at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, during Christmas dinner, December
25th, 2011.

Object Name: 111225-A-WJ570-037
Special Instructions: Released, Capt. Christopher Larsen, 364th Expeditionary Sustainment Command, via DVIDS..
Credit: U.S. Army
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