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Korean War veteran and retired U.S. airman Ronald J. Davis watches from the steps of the Panmunjom Freedom House as a repatriation ceremony begins for the remains of what is believed to be five U.S. soldiers killed in the Korean War. A delegation of United Nations Command Military Armistice Commission (UNCMAC) officials received the remains from North Korean officials during the eighth repatriation ceremony held since joint search and recovery operations began in Korea in 1996. The five sets of remains brings the total returned to 19. Kim Yong-kyu, a spokesman for the U.N. command said the remains were recovered from Gaechon City, about 50 miles north of Pyongyang. The U.S. 2nd Infantry...

A US Marine from 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marines, atop a High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV), readies a TOW missile launcher for a Combined Arms Live Fire Exercise at Pohakuloa Training Area on the Big Island of Hawaii. Another HMMWV is visible in the background

Tom Brokaw (left), NBC Nightly News Anchorman, poses for a picture with former U.S. Army 2nd LT. Lana Contar-Benning, the last living nurse from Hickman Field, Hawaii, Dec. 7, 1941, at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Dec. 7, 2006, during the the joint Navy/National Park Service ceremony commemorating the 65th Anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. More than 1,500 Pearl Harbor survivors, their families and their friends from around the nation joined the more than 2,000 distiguished guests and the general public for the annual Pearl Harbor observance. (U.S. Navy photo by CHIEF Communication SPECIALIST Don Bray) (Released)

Secretary of the Navy H. Lawrence Garrett III speaks at the naval station's Submarine Memorial during a ceremony to honor the men killed aboard the 52 U.S. Navy submarines lost during World War II. The ceremony is part of the observance of the 50th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

Members of Battery B, 1ST Bn., 12th Marines, fire an M-101 105mm howitzer du ring the command readiness exercise Operation Zulu Warrior

Members of the 1ST Battalion, 27th Infantry, 25th Infantry Division, acting as opposing forces, prepare for an airmobile assault by friendly forces during Exercise OPPORTUNE JOURNEY 4-84 at the Pohakuloa Training Area. The soldier in the foreground is armed with an M16A rifle while the soldier in the background mans an M60 machine gun

The battleship USS MISSOURI (BB-63) fires several of its Mark 7 16-inch 50-caliber guns while underway off the coast of Hawaii during Exercise RimPac '88

US Marine Corps (USMC) Lieutenant General (LGEN) Wallace Gregson, left, gives a piece of birthday cake to special guest US Navy (USN) Admiral (ADM) Thomas B. Fargo, at the USMC Officer Ball, celebrating the 228th anniversary of the founding of the Marine Corps

Members of Underwater Construction Team Two (UCT-2) and the Range Instruction Department from Point Magu, California are shown in a Zodiac boat while doing repair work on the Pacific Missile Range Facility off Kauai, Hawaii

A view of the fleet oiler USS WILLIAMETTE (AO 180) inside the No. 4 drydock

A crew member aboard the battleship USS MISSOURI (BB-63) watches the guided missile cruiser USS CHOSIN (CG-65) as it passes the USS ARIZONA MEMORIAL during an observance commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

A port beam view of the Canadian frigate HMCS MACKENZIE (261) underway.