War_Conflict

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Spc. Jacob Davenport, Sentinel, Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard), walks his 21 steps as the snow starts falling at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery, Va. (Army photo)

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FILE - In this Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014, file photo, members of the media photograph one of two field deployable hydrolysis systems in a protective enclosure aboard the MV Cape Ray in Portsmouth, Va. The American ship MV Cape Ray is set to arrive Thursday, Feb. 13, 2014, at the naval base of Rota on Spain’s southwestern coast used by the U.S. to resupply ahead of an unprecedented mission to collect and destroy mustard gas, raw materials for sarin nerve gas and tons of other highly toxic chemicals that form part of Syria’s chemical weapons program. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

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FILE - This Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014, file photo, shows a barge anchored alongside the MV Cape Ray in Portsmouth, Va. The American ship MV Cape Ray is set to arrive Thursday, Feb. 13, 2014, at the naval base of Rota on Spain’s southwestern coast used by the U.S. to resupply ahead of an unprecedented mission to collect and destroy mustard gas, raw materials for sarin nerve gas and tons of other highly toxic chemicals that form part of Syria’s chemical weapons program. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

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U.S. soldiers and Afghan security forces search the site where a suicide attacker rammed a car bomb into a NATO convoy killing two foreign civilian contractors, in the Afghan capital Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Feb. 10, 2014. The Islamic militant group Hizb-i-Islami claimed responsibility for the attack in eastern Kabul, saying it would drive all foreign forces from Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

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FILE – This Sept. 27, 2010, file photo reviewed by the U.S. military, shows a U.S. military guard walking a corridor between detainee cells at the Parwan detention facility near Bagram, north of Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder, File)

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Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Bronson Arroyo throws during baseball spring training, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2014, in Scottsdale, Ariz. The Diamondbacks made the signing of Arroyo official Wednesday, five days after the two-year, $23.5 million deal was widely reported. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

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FILE - This undated image provided by the Mesquite Police Department shows Daniel Runyon. Sentencing was postponed Wednesday Feb. 12, 2014, in Las Vegas for Runyon, an ex-convict from Utah who pleaded guilty to a firearm charge in a shootout that left a police officer injured last year in the resort city of Mesquite, Nev.. (AP Photo/Mesquite Police Department, file)

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** FILE ** In this photo taken Monday, Feb. 4, 2013, Japanese Lt. Gen. Masayuki Hironaka, U.S. Pacific Air Forces commander Gen. Herbert Carlisle and Royal Australian Air Force Air Commodore Anthony Grady speak to the media at Andersen Air Force Base on the island of Guam to kick off the beginning of the Cope North military exercises. (AP Photo/Eric Talmadge)

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In this Sunday, Feb. 2, 2014 photo, plainclothes Pakistani police officers examine the site of a grenade attack inside a movie theater in Peshawar, Pakistan. The Pakistani government has recently opened negotiations with domestic militants called the Pakistani Taliban designed to end years of fighting in the northwest that has cost thousands of lives and forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

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In this Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014 photo, negotiators from Pakistani Taliban committee, from left to right, Maulana Yousaf Shah, Ibrahim Khan, Maulana Sami-ul-Haq, and Maunala Abdul Aziz, hold a press conference in Islamabad, Pakistan. The Pakistani government has recently opened negotiations with domestic militants called the Pakistani Taliban designed to end years of fighting in the northwest that has cost thousands of lives and forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

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In this Monday, Feb. 3, 2014 photo, negotiators from Pakistani Taliban committee, from left, to right Ibrahim Khan, Maulana Sami-ul-Haq and Maulana Abdul Aziz, listen to a reporter during their press conference in Islamabad, Pakistan. The Pakistani government has recently opened negotiations with domestic militants called the Pakistani Taliban designed to end years of fighting in the northwest that has cost thousands of lives and forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

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In this Feb. 7, 2014 photo, a hidden message contained in a vintage Valentine, which predates the Civil War, is seen in the collection of Lloyd Levin at his home in Mount Prospect, Ill. Levin has a collection of 3,000 antique Valentine's Day cards. (AP Photo/Daily Herald, Joe Lewnard) MANDATORY CREDIT, MAGS OUT

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In this Feb. 7, 2014 photo, a vintage Valentine from the collection of Lloyd Levin is seen at his home in Mount Prospect, Ill. Levin's collection contains 3,000 antique Valentine's Day cards, some predating the Civil War. (AP Photo/Daily Herald, Joe Lewnard) MANDATORY CREDIT, MAGS OUT

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In this Feb. 7, 2014 photo, Lloyd Levin, 81, of Mount Prospect, Ill., sits at home with some of his collection of 3,000 antique Valentine's Day cards. Some predate the Civil War. (AP Photo/Daily Herald, Joe Lewnard) MANDATORY CREDIT, MAGS OUT