Indian journalists toured the U.S. Navy’s guided missile frigate USS Gary (FFG 51) before a press conference aboard the ship during its June 2003 port visit in Cochin, India. The press conference focused on Cmdr. Tito P. Dua, Commander of the USS Gary, who was born in India before emigrating with his parents to the U.S. at a young age. A former Indian returning as commander of a U.S. Navy warship was a big story that ran in more than a dozen Indian newspapers and on several TV programs. Throughout the USS Gary’s three-day visit in Cochin, people repeatedly stopped Cmdr. Dua on the street to meet the Indian who had risen to command a U.S. Navy ship. “I guess they recognized me from the papers,” said Cmdr Dua, who has family in northern India and has traveled there extensively. Official U.S. Navy photo

Capt. Angela Devlin, an Australian Army nurse, holds a baby at a hospital in Honiara, Solomon Islands. A multinational force led by Australia is restoring orde to the Solomon Islands after years of fighting between rival militias. Photo by Gary Ramage, Australian Defence Force

U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. (Dr.) Raymond R. Batz examines the foot of a young girl during a Joint Special Operations Task Force-Philippines (JSOTF-P) Medical Civic Action Project in Zamboanga, Republic of the Philippines. The JSOTF-P’s mission is to conduct and oversee humanitarian civic action programs and to be the command and control element for Security Assistance Modules, a part of U.S. Pacific Command’s long-term security assistance partnership with the Armed Forces of the Philippines. Photo by PH1 Jon Gesch, USN

Secretary of Defense Donald H.Rumsfeld, right, escorts Republic of Korea Minister of National Defense Cho Yong-kil into the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. The two defense leaders met in June 2003 to discuss a broad range of bilateral security issues. Photo by R. D. Ward, DOD

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