A girl peered from her front gate as a United States Army soldier from A Co., 1st Battalion, 5th Infantry Regiment
patrols in western Mosul, Iraq, about 225 miles northwest of Baghdad. Tuesday, June 9, 2009 (AP / Maya Alleruzzo)

U.S. Army Pfc. Matthew Starks prepared for duty as a Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle gunner
in Baghdad, Iraq, June 1, 2009. Starks is assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division's Company G, 1st Battalion,
82nd Field Artillery Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team in Baghdad. U.S Army photo by Jon Soles

Staff Sgt. Brian Dawson, of Winston Salem, N.C., waits for other Soldiers of Battery B, 1st Battalion,
113th Field Artillery Regiment, 30th Brigade Combat Team, to catch up while on patrol south of Baghdad,
June 9. Iraqi army soldiers, also on the patrol, swept through the small village in search of a weapons cache.
(Photo by Sgt. Mary Phillips : 30th Heavy Brigade Combat Team)

BAGHDAD: Pfc. Nathan LeCompte, of B Company, 252nd Combined Arms Battalion, 30thHeavy Brigade
Combat Team, guards a marketplace in the Saydiyah district of southern Baghdad, as Iraqi Police and
fellow U.S. Soldiers patrol, June 9. LeCompte is from Greenville, N.C. Modern warfare sometimes requires
Soldiers to be warriors and diplomats all at once, but also always be ready to respond in an ever-changing
front. Photo Credit: U.S. Army

U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Jeremiah Glassford looks through an advanced combat optical gunsight to see if the soldiers he is supporting are accurately engaging their targets at Prosperity Range on Forward Operating Base Prosperity in Baghdad, July 11, 2009. Glassford is assigned to the 314th Public Affairs Operations Detachment from Birmingham. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Ferdinand Thomas

A U.S. Army soldier with 1st Squadron, 150th Cavalry Regiment, 30th Heavy Brigade Combat Team,
1st Cavalry Division wears a mask to protect himself from a dust storm in Baghdad, Iraq, on June 27, 2009.
DoD photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Edwin L. Wriston, U.S. Navy. (Released)

Spc. Rob Malcolm, intelligence analyst for 82nd Rear Operations Center, Oregon Army National Guard,
takes aim with the Singaporean army SAR-21 battle rifle in Singapore, July 11. Malcolm, of West Linn, Ore.,
is a member of Operation Tiger Balm 09, a coalition training exercise between the Singapore army, and
citizen-soldiers and citizen-airmen from Oregon, Hawaii, Utah and Arizona.

A U.S. soldier from Dagger Company, 2-12 Infantry, 4th Brigade takes aim after an
earlier attack near the village of Omar in the lower Korangal Valley in Afghanistan's Kunar
Province July 23, 2009. Afghanistan will hold a presidential election on August 20, 2009.

U.S. Army soldiers participate in tactical range training using M-9 Berretta handguns on Normandy
Range Complex in Basra, Iraq, July 15, 2009. The soldiers are assigned to Company B, 445th Civil
Affairs Battalion. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt Chrissy Best

A U.S. soldier of 118 MP Company catches a cartridge from a pistol on the Combat Operation Outpost
(COP) McClain in Logar Province in Afghanistan July 23, 2009. Reuters

U.S. soldier Specialist Jeffery Adams of Road Clearance Package (RCP) eight of the 2-12 Infantry,
4th Brigade, patrols near marijuana plants during a mission in the valley of Kunar River in Afghanistan's
Kunar province July 28, 2009.

Man, I don't want to have to use M-9s

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Pvt. Rodolfo Reynoso, Company F, 3rd Battalion, 34th Infantry Regiment, counts the company's weapons as part of his duties as supply clerk. (Photo Courtesy of U.S. Army)

Sgt. Andrew K. Jackson, Squad Leader, B Company, 2nd Military Intelligence Battalion, conducts perimeter security during a
Warrior Leader Course situational training exercise in Grafenwoehr, Germany, July 17. (Photo Courtesy of U.S. Army)

Spc. Lucas Butler scans the horizon with the sight of his M249 Squad Automatic Weapon during an anti-improvised
explosive device and anti-indirect fire mission in the Abu Ghraib area, here, July 30. Butler is an infantryman from
State College, Pa., assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 112th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry
Division. The Soldiers of the 2nd Bn., 112th Inf. Regt. chose an area known as "the big concrete slab" to conduct
their mission to catch insurgents in the act of placing IEDs or planning IDF attacks.

A U.S. soldier hands an Afghan girl a bottle of water during Operation Champion Sword in Khost province,
Afghanistan, July 29, 2009. The operation directs Afghan and international security forces to focus on specific
militant targets and safe havens within Sabari and Terezai districts in eastern Afghanistan.
(U.S. Army photo by Spc. Matthew Freire)

I can not take credit for it but still the same it is funny.

Have a nice day!

that guy is my new hero

yea mine too.

awesome pictures all of them