U.S. Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Jonathan Hall plots a reading on a navigation chart in the pilot house of the amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2) in the Coral Sea during exercise Talisman Saber 2009 on June 25, 2009.   DoD photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Gabriel S. Weber, U.S. Navy.








U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Nicholas Tester, an aerospace maintenance journeyman with the 28th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, performs an isochronal inspection on a B-1B Lancer bomber's General Electric F101 turbofan engine at Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D., on June 16, 2009.   DoD photo by Airman 1st Class Corey Hook, U.S. Air Force.








U.S. Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Valerie Collier performs maintenance on a milling machine in the machinery shop aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD-2) in the East China Sea on June 17, 2009.   DoD photo by Seaman Taurean Alexander, U.S. Navy.

It was a journey that took more than a hundred years. Cpl. Isaiah Mays was awarded the Medal of Honor after being wounded in an ambush in 1889. Missing for decades, the remains of Cpl. Isaiah Mays, a Buffalo Soldier and Medal of Honor recipient, were laid to rest Friday at Arlington National Cemetery.Paying respects were African-American veterans, U.S. Army soldiers and those who rode for days as part of a motorcycle escort -- members of the Missing in America Project, who traveled from as far away as California and Arizona at their own expense to make sure Mays got a proper burial. None was a relative but they consider themselves his brothers.

U.S. Army Pvt. Deonta Proctor provides security during a patrol in the city of Kirkuk, Iraq, on May 17, 2009. Proctor is an infantryman, attached to 1st Platoon, Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas.   DoD photo by Sgt. Gustavo Olgiati, U.S. Army.

Sgt. 1st Class Frank Rawls with Company C, XVIII Airborne Corps Special Troops Battalion, hangs out the door of a mock C-130 Hercules Aircraft May 27 as part of pre-jump activities at Green Ramp, Pope Air Force Base, N.C. The Corps conducted pre-jump activities at Green Ramp before heading out on an airborne operation the following day. For most it was their first jump in nearly 16 months.

Boatswain's Mate 2nd Class Damien Stone introduces "Oscar," a rescue mannequin used for rescue training, to students from Public School 14 in Staten Island while touring the guided-missile cruiser USS Vella Gulf (CG 72).
 

Air Force Capt. Charlotta Blalock, aide to the commander of U.S. Air Forces in Europe, works out at the Southside Fitness Center on Ramstein Air Base, Germany. U.S. Air Force photo by Chief Master Sgt. Matt Proietti