Photos From The Field

Leatherneck Magazine has posted dozens of slideshows from both Iraq and Afghanistan in our Photos From The Field section.

Here are this week's snapshots of our Marines around the world.

Want more? Check out our Daily Corps News, more photos, some cartoons, or the best of 1969.

U.S. Marines from the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit in Exercise Cobra Gold 09

Landing Craft Utility 1631 from Assault Craft Unit 1 arrives in Sattahip, Thailand, Feb. 7, from the forward-deployed amphibious dock landing ship USS Tortuga (LSD-46) to offload Marines from the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit participating in Exercise Cobra Gold 2009. Cobra Gold is an annual Thailand and U.S. co-sponsored joint military exercise designed to train a Thai, U.S. and Singaporean Coalition Task Force. The exercise will also include humanitarian civic action projects. (Photo by PO1 Geronimo Aquino)

Marines of the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit paint a wall at a Thailand elementary school as part of Excercise Cobra Gold 09

Cpl James Anderson from Aurora, Colo., (left) and equipment operator constructionman Diton Parker from Paris, Mo., both assigned to Combat Logistics Regiment 3 of the 31st MEU, paint a wall during a community relations activity at Banklong Sai Elementary School, Feb. 7, as part of Exercise Cobra Gold 2009. (Photo by SN Gabriel Weber)

Soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines wait to be naturalized as American citizens at a ceremony in Iraq.

Soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines await the start of their naturalization ceremony at Al Faw Palace, Iraq, March 3, where they will cite the oath of citizenship and become Americans. (Photo by SSgt Joy Pariante)

U.S. President Barack Obama meets with service members and civilians during a visit to U.S. Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune.

U.S. President Barack Obama meets with servicemembers and civilians during a visit to Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, N.C., Feb. 27. Obama told the audience he plans to begin a withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq, and by August 2010 to have about 50,000 troops in the country to provide training and counterterrorism operations.

A Marine from the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit assists a French sailor during fast-rope training aboard the FS Tonnerre.

A leatherneck from Mortar Platoon, Weapons Company, Battalion Landing Team, 3d Battalion, Second Marine Regiment, 22d Marine Expeditionary Unit assists a French sailor during fast-rope training on board the French Command and Projection ship FS Tonnerre, Feb. 10. The Marines were on board Tonnerre for Composite Training Unit Exercise, a part of the 22d MEU's predeployment training program. The MEU is scheduled to deploy this spring. (Photo by Cpl Alicia Giron)

Marines with “Lima” Company, Battalion Landing Team, 3d Bn, Second Marine Regiment, 22d Marine Expeditionary Unit secure an objective during an amphibious assault at Camp Lejeune, N.C., Feb. 15. The assault was conducted using landing craft, amphibious assault vehicles, and aviation assets, simultaneously striking three objectives as the capstone event of Composite Training Unit Exercise (COMPTUEX). (Photo by Cpl Theodore Ritchie)

Marines from “Sierra” Battery, Battalion Landing Team, 3d Bn, Second Marine Regiment, 22d Marine Expeditionary Unit face off against Marines roleplaying protesters outside the gates of a mock American embassy compound during an embassy reinforcement exercise at Camp Lejeune, N.C., Feb. 10. The reinforcement exercise was part of COMPTUEX--one of the MEU's major predeployment exercises. (Photo by SSgt Matthew Epright)

Pvts Julius Sanmah, Mark Wahn, Momo Kaifak and Swaray Kafumba, soldiers with the Armed Forces of Liberia, and U.S. Marine Cpls Michael Tormos and Sean Castaneda, advisors with Marine Advisor Team, Africa Partnership Station Nashville, unload boxes of school supplies for the United Methodist School System in Liberia, Feb. 27. Approximately 165 desks and 319 boxes containing schoolbags and school kits were delivered as part of the U.S. Navy's Project Handclasp program. The program allows the U.S. Navy to utilize its empty cargo space to transport donated goods and deliver them to countries in need that are on the ship's port calls along the way. (Courtesy Photo)

A Marine cuts through a strand of time-fuse at Camp Bastion, Afghanistan

LCpl James E. Laflin cuts through a strand of time-fuse during a training evolution at a demolition range on Camp Bastion, Afghanistan, Feb. 21. Ammunition technicians with Headquarters Company, Combat Logistics Battalion 3 and Okinawa-based explosive ordnance disposal technicians with 3d EOD Platoon, assigned to CLB-3, worked together to dispose of unserviceable ammunition and ordnance. CLB-3 is the logistics combat element of Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force - Afghanistan, whose mission is to conduct counterinsurgency operations while training and mentoring the Afghan national police. (Photo by LCpl Ronald Stauffer)

The detonation of high-explosive charges sends smoke and flames soaring more than 50 feet high at a demolition range on Camp Bastion, Afghanistan, F

The detonation of high-explosive charges sends smoke and flames soaring more than 50 feet high during a training exercise at a demolition range on Camp Bastion, Afghanistan, Feb. 21. (Photo by LCpl Ronald Stauffer)

A Marine with the 26th Brigade Military Transition Team aids in teaching a class to the Iraqi army 26th Brigade in Basra, Iraq.

U.S. Marine Corps Cpl William James with the 26th Brigade Military Transition Team aids in teaching a class to the Iraqi army 26th Brigade prior to training on room clearing at the soldiers' post on Zubayr Road in Basra, Iraq, Feb. 25. (Photo by Karah Cohen)

Marines teach a class on weapon stances to Iraqi soldiers with the Iraqi army 26th Brigade in Basra, Iraq.

Cpl James with the 26th Brigade Military Transition Team teaches a class on weapon stances to Iraqi soldiers with the 26th Brigade at the soldiers' post on Zubayr Road in Basra, Iraq, Feb. 25. (Photo by Karah Cohen)

A Marine steadies a rocket pod as it's lowered to the ground from a High Mobility Artillery Rocket System before a test fire at Camp Barber in Afghanistan.

Sgt Larry N. Akin, launcher chief assigned to the first platoon of Battery D, 2d Battalion, 14th Marine Regiment, a Reserve battery based in El Paso, Texas, steadies a rocket pod as it's lowered to the ground from a High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) before a test fire at Camp Barber, Afghanistan, Feb. 15. The battery is there to support Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force - Afghanistan as a fire support asset. (Photo by LCpl Ronald Stauffer)

Marines with Battery D, 2nd Battalion, 14th Marine Regiment, fire a 200-pound rocket from a High Mobility Artillery Rocket System during a test fire at Camp Barber.

Leathernecks with Battery D, 2d Battalion, 14th Marine Regiment fire a 200-pound rocket from a HIMARS during a test fire at Camp Barber, Afghanistan, Feb. 15. (Photo by LCpl Ronald Stauffer)

A Marine balances a rocket pod while transferring the unit from one truck to another before a High Mobility Artillery Rocket System test-fire at Camp Barber

LCpl Alex L. Herrera, motor transport operator assigned to the first platoon of Battery D, 2d Battalion, 14th Marine Regiment, balances a rocket pod while transferring the unit from one truck to another before a HIMARS test fire at Camp Barber, Afghanistan, Feb. 15. (Photo by LCpl Ronald Stauffer)