Ensign Shauna Ralston, a labor and delivery nurse with the Women and Children’s Department, Naval Hospital Pensacola, was an aerial navigator in the Marine Corps before deciding to become a Navy nurse. Ralston used the Medical Enlistment Commissioning Program to earn a nursing degree.

Lance Cpl. Mamadou Balde, a maintenance mechanic with General Support 2 Platoon, Retrograde Operations Company, Redeployment and Retrograde in Support of Reset and Reconstitution Operations Group, at Camp Dwyer, Helmand Province, Afghanistan, recently became a United States citizen during a recent ceremony at Kandahar Air Field.

Maj. Barb King and Dovi hug as King arrives at the Compassion International center during the trip King took last year. King said she got off the bus and saw Dovi look to her mother for approval before Dovi ran to King, who dropped to her knees for the two’s first hug (photo submitted by Maj. Barb King)

Indian Army RFN Anil Pawe, an infantryman with the 99th Mountain Brigade, and Spc. Henry Vaillancourt, a paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team, partner up to fire an M249 Squad Automatic Weapon May 4, 2013, at Fort Bragg, N.C. Vaillancourt is familiarizing Pawe with the American machine gun prior to field training as part of the annual U.S. – India Yudh Abhyas training exercise. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Michael J. MacLeod

Chief Warrant Officer 3 Victoria C. Corrigan, 16th Combat Aviation Brigade human resources technician, attempts to block out an opponent, Marauding Mollys jammer, as a pivot for the Femma Fianna roller derby team during a match May 4 at the Pierce College gymnasium in Lakewood, Wash. U.S.Army photo by: Staff Sgt. Bryan Lewis