Family Photo Album: Coming and Going

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Pvt. Michael Gam

U.S. Marine Sgt. Greyson Escareno and his family leave Victory Field at the Marine Corps Air-Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, Calif., Sept. 6, 2009. Escareno was returning home from an eight-month deployment to Iraq.

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Chris Paulton

A couple bids farewell before a yearlong deployment to southern Afghanistan, Marine Corps Air-Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, Calif., Oct. 8, 2009.  

U.S. Navy photo by Seaman Desiree Green

Keyona and son, Keyon Lovelace, hug their sailor, Petty Officer 2nd Class Charles Lovelace, after his ship the USS James E. Williams returned to Norfolk Naval Station, Va. after seven months at sea, Oct. 19, 2009.