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Hospitalman Zachary D. Greenberg is currently deployed to Afghanistan with 1st Battalion, 1st Marines, Regimental Combat Team 6. The Woodenville, Wash., native?s family has a rich history in the Navy. A great grandfather, grandfather, uncle and a brother have all taken the oath of service before him. - Hospitalman Zachary D. Greenberg is currently deployed to Afghanistan with 1st Battalion, 1st Marines, Regimental Combat Team 6. The Woodenville, Wash., native?s family has a rich history in the Navy. A great grandfather, grandfather, uncle and a brother have all taken the oath of service before him.

Cpl. Joshua Brooks, a machine gunner from Petoskey, Mich., with Charlie Company, Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, fires an M-2 .50 cal. machine gun, Aug. 12, 2012, on Udairi Range, Kuwait. The Marines are in Kuwait as part of a 24th MEU sustainment training package. The 24th MEU is deployed with the Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group as a U.S. Central Command theater reserve force providing support for maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility. - Cpl. Joshua Brooks, a machine gunner from Petoskey, Mich., with Charlie Company, Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, fires an M-2 .50 cal. machine gun, Aug. 12, 2012, on Udairi Range, Kuwait. The Marines are in Kuwait as part of a 24th MEU sustainment training package. The 24th MEU is deployed with the Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group as a U.S. Central Command theater reserve force providing support for maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility.

Private First Class Timothy Workman, mortarman, Weapons Company, 1st Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 6, stands with his M16 assault rifle outside his tent at Patrol Base Paser Lay, Aug. 19, 2012. Workman enlisted in the Marine Corps a year ago. His friend?s brother Kyle died six months before Workman joined. Workman said he used the death as additional motivation to continue the work Kyle gave his life for. - Private First Class Timothy Workman, mortarman, Weapons Company, 1st Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 6, stands with his M16 assault rifle outside his tent at Patrol Base Paser Lay, Aug. 19, 2012. Workman enlisted in the Marine Corps a year ago. His friend?s brother Kyle died six months before Workman joined. Workman said he used the death as additional motivation to continue the work Kyle gave his life for.

U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Randy Ball (center), a corpsman with Headquarters Platoon, Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, and a 23-year-old native of Mamou, La., is aided by fellow corpsmen while using an ultrasound machine to search an Afghan National Policeman for internal injuries in the battalion aid station here after he was injured in an attack by a suicide bomber in Helmand province’s Garmsir district, April 19, 2012. The 3/3 corpsmen treated eight injured Afghan policemen after being faced with a mass casualty situation following the attack on an ANP precinct headquarters in Garmsir’s Lakari region. Ten of the 18 total ANP casualties died from wounds sustained in the attack. After initially being stabilized by three 3/3 corpsmen at Combat Outpost Sharp, eight casualties were transported to FOB Delhi and treated by a team of 28 Navy personnel. Medical evacuation helicopters later transported six ANP casualties to Camp Dwyer’s Casualty Support Hospital for further treatment, while the remaining two were treated and released. - U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Randy Ball (center), a corpsman with Headquarters Platoon, Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, and a 23-year-old native of Mamou, La., is aided by fellow corpsmen while using an ultrasound machine to search an Afghan National Policeman for internal injuries in the battalion aid station here after he was injured in an attack by a suicide bomber in Helmand province’s Garmsir district, April 19, 2012. The 3/3 corpsmen treated eight injured Afghan policemen after being faced with a mass casualty situation following the attack on an ANP precinct headquarters in Garmsir’s Lakari region. Ten of the 18 total ANP casualties died from wounds sustained in the attack. After initially being stabilized by three 3/3 corpsmen at Combat Outpost Sharp, eight casualties were transported to FOB Delhi and treated by a team of 28 Navy personnel. Medical evacuation helicopters later transported six ANP casualties to Camp Dwyer’s Casualty Support Hospital for further treatment, while the remaining two were treated and released.

U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Edward Knudsen, a 25-year-old mortarman with Headquarters Platoon, Weapons Company, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, and a native of Rapid City, S.D., spends the days of his second deployment to Afghanistan balancing armory custodian logbooks. In his precious down time, he delves into thick college textbooks, refreshing in algebra, trigonometry and calculus and studying for the SAT exam. Knudsen worked through two years of college before joining the Marine Corps in 2008, but admitted he couldn’t muster the discipline to stay devoted. Now, three years later and thousands of miles removed from formal schooling in the U.S., he’s gainfully employing his newly acquired focus. He plans to resume his studies and complete a bachelor degree in mechanical engineering when his active duty service expires in 2014. - U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Edward Knudsen, a 25-year-old mortarman with Headquarters Platoon, Weapons Company, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, and a native of Rapid City, S.D., spends the days of his second deployment to Afghanistan balancing armory custodian logbooks. In his precious down time, he delves into thick college textbooks, refreshing in algebra, trigonometry and calculus and studying for the SAT exam. Knudsen worked through two years of college before joining the Marine Corps in 2008, but admitted he couldn’t muster the discipline to stay devoted. Now, three years later and thousands of miles removed from formal schooling in the U.S., he’s gainfully employing his newly acquired focus. He plans to resume his studies and complete a bachelor degree in mechanical engineering when his active duty service expires in 2014.

The 35th commandant of the Marine Corps, General James F. Amos, the 17th sergeant major of the Marine Corps Sgt. Maj. Micheal P. Barrett, and staff, board a Ch-53 Sea Stallion helicopter at Camp Leatherneck, Helmand province, Afghanistan, Nov. 24, 2011. These leaders traveled to Afghanistan to visit deployed service members throughout Regional Command (West) and Regional Command (Southwest) for the Thanksgiving holiday. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Mallory S. VanderSchans/Released) - The 35th commandant of the Marine Corps, General James F. Amos, the 17th sergeant major of the Marine Corps Sgt. Maj. Micheal P. Barrett, and staff, board a Ch-53 Sea Stallion helicopter at Camp Leatherneck, Helmand province, Afghanistan, Nov. 24, 2011. These leaders traveled to Afghanistan to visit deployed service members throughout Regional Command (West) and Regional Command (Southwest) for the Thanksgiving holiday. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Mallory S. VanderSchans/Released)