Making butterflies

Students from the Gloria M. Sabater Elementary School in Vineland, with help from teacher Connie Richmond and 2nd Lt. Richard Lee from E. Company, 250th Brigade Support Battalion work on the Butterfly Tree project. Children from 31 classrooms at the school decorated foam butterflies and dedicated each one to the memory of a fallen service member who served in Iraq or Afghanistan. The assignment culminated with the send-off on Jan. 23 of more than 580 butterflies for Arlington National Cemetery. Photo by Staff Sgt. Jerry Grant, 444MPAD.

Key to Freedom
Capt. Eric Montoya, (l-r) Forward Operating Base Freedom mayor; 1st Sgt. Charley Keuscher, deputy mayor; Col. Steven Ferrari, Joint Area Support Group-Central commander; present Mohammad Salman, national reconciliation liaison for the Government of Iraq; Ali Al-Yasri, director general of the prime minister's office operations, GOI, and Dr. Mawafek Al-Kuramanjy, director general of real estate of the General Secretariat, GOI, a key to FOB Freedom during a ceremony marking the property's transfer back to Iraq. Photo by Staff Sgt. Shawn Morris, JASG-C/PA.

Foot Soldier
Master Sgt. Myles Cappiello with the Joint Training and Training Development Center, applies powder to his feet as participants continue along the 26.2-mile route of the 20th annual Bataan Memorial Death March, held April 6 at the White Sands Missile Range, N.M. An estimated 5,300 people participated in the event. Photo by Dustin Perry, Fort Bliss Monitor.