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The view from above shows the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Cypress at work, skimming a large patch of oil in the Gulf of Mexico, July 13, 2010.
U.S. Coast Guard
photo by Ensign Frankie L. Temple

















U.S. Army Sgt. Phillip Toward secures the perimeter of a village during a patrol in the Zabul province, Afghanistan, July 13, 2010. Toward, a security forces gunner, is assigned to Provincial Reconstruction Team Zabul.
U.S. Air Force
photo by Senior Airman Nathanael Callon

















Members of the International Security Assistance Force provide security on a compound in Afghanistan's Kandahar province, July 2, 2010.
U.S. Army
photo by Pfc. Christian Palermo

















An instructor holds down a Malaysian soldier's head as he unfastens himself from a shallow water egress trainer during a course on Marine Corps Base Hawaii, June 30, 2010. The one-day course is designed to train military personnel in basic procedures used to egress, or exit, a ditched aircraft.
U.S. Marine Corps
photo by Lance Cpl. Orlando Perez

















U.S. soldiers and airmen in a mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicle move through an Afghan village to ensure roads are safe for travel in the Pul-e Alam district in Logar province, Afghanistan, June 29, 2010. The troops are assigned to teams to detect and dispose of improvised explosive devices and ordnance.
U.S. Army
photo by Spc. Theodore Schmidt

















U.S. Marine Corps Staff Sgt. James Nine and Lance Cpl. Mark Kobus push a case of water rigged with a disposable parachute out of a CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter during an experiment to find new ways of delivering emergency supplies to troops on the ground over Drop Zone Jake, Afghanistan, July 1, 2010. Nine and Kobus are assigned to the 1st Reconaissance Battalion.
U.S. Marine Corps
photo by Cpl. Ryan Rholes

















Dr. Sharon K. Taylor, with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and Dan Alonso, manager of the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge, release brown pelicans from crates in Port Aransas, Texas, June 27, 2010. Workers rescued the pelicans off the Louisiana coast and transported them to Fort Jackson Bird Rehabilitation Center, where the birds were fed, washed and stabilized to prepare for their return to the wild.
U.S. Coast Guard
photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Robert Brazzell

















U.S. Army Pfc. Abel Scott, left, Pfc. Wayne Paliwoda, center, and Pvt. Michael Culver, right, sift material to make concrete at a Santa Librada, Panama, elementary school, June 26, 2010. Scott, Paliwoda, and Culver are construction engineers assigned to the 372nd Engineer Company.
U.S. Air Force
photo by Tech. Sgt. Eric Petosky