Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff U.S. Marine Corps Gen. Peter Pace receives the Patriot Award at the 2006 Congressional Medal of Honor Society Convention Committee in Boston, Mass., Sept. 30, 2006.

Defense Dept. photo by U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. D. Myles Cullen

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U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Keoshia Bright, center, instructs U.S. Army Pfc. Paul Smead as he inserts an intravenous catheter into the arm of retired Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Joshua Ruderman at Wilford Hall Medical Center, Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, Sept. 28, 2006.

Bright is with the 750th Medical Operations Squadron and Smead is in Licensed Vocational Nurse training at Wilford Hall.

U.S. Air Force photo by
Robbin Cresswell

U.S. Navy crewmembers from Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 22 stand at ease during an establishment ceremony in Norfolk, Va., Sept. 29, 2006. The Sea Knights of HSC-22 became the first new helicopter squadron at Naval Station Norfolk in 22 years.    U.S. Navy photo by Seaman Apprentice Scott C. Rancilio  

U.S. Army soldiers from 3rd Platoon, Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment catalog contraband items during a search and cordon mission in Baghdad, Iraq, Oct. 1, 2006.

U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Mike Buytas