Airman gains citizenship

Senior Airman Jorge Contreras sits with group of immigrants preparing to take the U.S. citizenship oath live on NBC’s "Today" show, Nov. 16, 2012, at Rockefeller Plaza in New York. U.S. Air Force photo by 2nd Lt. Alexis McGee)

Explosive ordnances leave trace

Sgt. 1st Class Jeff Truex, explosive ordnance displosal operations NCO in charge, left, and a Polish combat engineer, both assigned to Forward Operating Base, Ghazni, open containers containing faulty rockets at an undisclosed location in Ghazni Province, Afghanistan. EOD control detonated over 400lbs of munitions from various sources, such as, the small rewards program, turned in munitions from locals, parts of improvised explosive devices that could not be blown up in place, or faulty rockets that did not fire properly. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech Sgt. Rebecca F. Corey)

Haunting observance

An Afghan girl smiles behind a window in Ghazni province, Afghanistan in 20009. Then-Tech. Sgt. Rebecca Corey was documenting the work of the provincial reconstruction team in the region, when she photographed the child standing in the window observing her team. (U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Rebecca Corey)

Little joys along the way

Then-Tech. Sgt. Rebecca Corey smiles as she holds a child while visitng a woman's vocational school in Ghazni province, Afghanistan, during her deployment in 2009. The child was about the same age as Corey's son at the time and the women at the school were surprised that she had a child back at home but was in Afghanistan deployed. (U.S. Air Force photo)

Veiled and apprehensive

Women sit in the waiting area outside the female outpatient department of the Moqur Comprehensive Health Clinic in Moqur, Afghanistan on Dec. 17, 2009. Medical staff from Provincial Reconstruction Team Ghazni visited the clinic to perform a comprehensive assessment of the clinics capabilities and needs. (U.S. Air Force/Tech Sgt. Rebecca F. Corey)

Taking care of locals

HM2 Biza Strickland, from the Naval Medical Center, Portsmouth, Va., NCOIC of the Provincial Reconstruction Team Ghazni Clinic, hands out cough syrup and de-worming medication to a child inside the orphanage clinic in Ghazni City, Afghanistan on Dec. 16, 2009. (U.S. Air Force/Tech Sgt. Rebecca F. Corey, PRT Ghazni)