Senior NCO retirement ceremony
Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Michael E. Johnson of Air Force Mortuary Affairs Operations, Dover Air Force Base, Del., cuts a cake July 14, 2012, following a retirement ceremony for Senior Master Sgt. Randall B. Anderson (shown at rear), chief of education and training for the 512th Airlift Wing, an Air Force Reserve unit at Dover AFB. Anderson served on active-duty with the Marines before transferring to the Air Force Reserve and working as an air reserve technician at Dover for 20 years. The cake featured the Air Force coat of arms, the Marine Corps seal and a rendering of Marines raising the U.S. flag on Iwo Jima in World War II. (Courtesy photo)