Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Navy Adm. Edmund P. Giambastiani moves through the U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad, Iraq, Jan. 31, 2007. Giambastiani visited with senior U.S. and coalition military leaders at the embassy. Defense Dept. photo by U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Sean P. Houlihan

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Clint Ezell, from Alpha Company, 7th Battalion, 158th Aviation Regiment, checks his equipment before departing on a mission from Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, Jan. 26, 2007. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Michael L. Casteel

A U.S. Navy E-2C Hawkeye from the "Golden Hawks" of Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron 112 approaches for landing on the flight deck of USS John C. Stennis, Jan. 28, 2007. Stennis Carrier Strike Group and Carrier Air Wing 9 are under way in the Pacific Ocean en route to the U.S. Central Command area of operations. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Ron Reeves

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Sean Devine, of the 332nd Communications Squadron, Balad Air Base, Iraq, takes stock video footage of a small sand storm to show local weather conditions at Balad, Iraq, Jan. 29, 2007. Devine is the base multimedia manager deployed from Aviano Air Force Base, Italy. U. S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Michael R. Holzworth

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Robert Gattison, a crew chief with 14th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, assists strapping Lt. Col. Chris Ashby, deployed to the 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing, into his Block 50 F-16 aircraft on Balad Air Base, Iraq, Jan. 29, 2007, before departing on a combat mission over Iraq. U. S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Michael R. Holzworth

Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England (center) poses for a photo with his two guests: Minister of Defense Fatmir Mediu (left), of Albania, and Minister of Defense Lazar Elenovski (right), of The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. England will host a Pentagon breakfast meeting with the two defense leaders to discuss a range of regional security issues. Defense Dept. photo by R. D. Ward

An Iraqi soldier with the Iraqi Army’s 2nd Battalion, 1st Brigade, 7th Division, and a policeman from the 17th Street Security Station Police Detachment pose for photos with local Iraqi children during a joint patrol in the Thaylat District of Ar Ramadi, Iraq, on Jan. 24. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Paul Robbins Jr.

Aircraft fill the hangar bays on board the USS Ronald Reagan in the Pacific Ocean, Jan. 28, 2007. The Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group is under way in support of operations in the Western Pacific. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class John P. Curtis