When Jonathan sent me this week's photograph, my first reaction was "how in the hell did he get so deep into a volcano?!" This explosion of color leaves you breathless. Reading Jonathan's accompanying note, the realization came that he was not that foolhardy at all. The photograph ...

Taken high over Kansas, this crazy-quilt is actually classic Americana crop circles. Created by hard working farmers making a living by feeding the world. The labor - from early morning to late at night - and love of the land that go into each one are innate and incalculable. However, if you look cl...

Crash recovery and emergency management crews survey a C-17 Globemaster III Jan. 31 as it rests on the active runway of Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, after receiving damage while landing Jan. 30. More than 120 Airmen, Defense Department civilians and contractors successfully removed the crippled air...

High speed vessel Swift arrived with Southern Partnership Station to begin training with the Jamaican Defense Force in a variety of topics. Southern Partnership Station is a training mission working with Central American, South American and Caribbean nations.  Photographer: Petty Officer 1st Cl...

Ryky, a three-year-old Belgian Malanois, who is partnered with U.S. Army Sgt. James Harrington, prepares to leave Forward Operating Base Falcon, Iraq, Dec. 19, 2008, on cache and search operations and route clearance in the Rashid district of southern Baghdad. Harrington is assigned to the 947th Mil...

Dear Soldier... Soldiers on Camp Liberty, Iraq, displayed this letter of thanks from a child at Grenada Elementary School in Mississippi on the wall of the Forward Support Company Tactical Operations Center in the motor pool on Camp Liberty, Iraq, Dec. 14, 2008. The soldiers there are assigned to th...

White House photo by Eric Draper. "I'm honored to be with the Screaming Eagles of the 101st Airborne; the Night Stalkers of the 160th; the Green Berets of the 5th Special Forces Group, all members of the Fort Campbell community. You are part of the finest military in the world.  I have one...

FARAH PROVINCE, Afghanistan -A Marine sniper attached to Task Force 2d Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, Special Purpose Marine Air Ground Task Force Afghanistan, fires at targets on a range on Camp Barber, Afghanistan. The marksmanship skills of the Marines proved far superior during the Battle of Sh...

Standing by on a hill top, soldiers with the 101st Division Special Troops Battalion, 101st Airborne Division watch as two Chinook helicopters fly in to take them back to Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan, Nov. 4, 2008. The soldiers searched a small village in the valley below for improvised explosive d...

June 20, 2008 - Children from a village close to Joint Base Balad Anaconda stop to smile for the camera while "Redlegs" from the 2nd Battalion, 320th Field Artillery Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), conduct a combat security patrol nearby. The artil...