Service members sign weapons before deployment.

Aboard USS Peleliu Sergeant Melvin C. Lawson, an aircraft seat technician with the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable), scrawls a message to terrorists on the surface of a 500-pound MK82 bomb. Marine pilots dropped the bomb on Taliban targets the next morning as part of Harrier airstrikes flown during Operation Enduring Freedom. U.S. Marine Corps Photo by Joseph R. Chenelly. File# 011104-M-4912C-001