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Members of the 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, led by Col. John Norris, cross the Iraq desert a few miles from the Kuwait border. The 1,800 soldiers in 360 vehicles traveled 369 miles to leave Iraq on Aug. 17. Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times/AP
US Army Staff Sgt. Jackie Vanover, from Spanaway, Wash., holds a hand-made message for his family, including his 2-month-old daughter, Austin, after crossing the border from Iraq into Kuwait. Vanover, of the 4th Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, is in the last combat brigade to leave Iraq as part of the drawdown of US forces. Maya Alleruzzo/AP
US Army soldiers race toward the border from Iraq into Kuwait. The soldiers are part of the last combat brigade to leave Iraq as part of the drawdown of US forces. Maya Alleruzzo/AP
Soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 116th Infantry Regiment carry their luggage as they prepare to pull out from Iraq to Kuwait, at Tallil Air Base near Nasiriyah, Iraq, on Aug. 15. Thaier al-Sudani/Reuters
Lt. Col. Richard D. Heyward (l.) of Illinois, and Sgt. Nick Wysong, of Washington (r.) keep watch as the 2nd Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment of the 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division crosses the southern desert of Iraq. The 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division was officially designated the last combat brigade to leave Iraq under President Obama's plan to end combat operations in Iraq by Aug. 31. Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times/AP
US Army soldiers stand near military Humvees and other vehicles recently arrived from Iraq and lined up ready for shipment out of the port of Shuaiba in Kuwait. Maya Alleruzzo/AP
A column of US Army Stryker armored vehicles crosses the border from Iraq into Kuwait on Aug. 18. Maya Alleruzzo/AP
US Army soldiers from the 4th Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment pose with an American flag for a photograph after crossing the border from Iraq into Kuwait. The soldiers from the 4th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division are the last combat troops to leave Iraq as part of the drawdown of US forces. Maya Alleruzzo/AP
US Army soldiers from the 4th Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, the last combat brigade to serve in Iraq, burn sensitive documents during final preparations for the unit's departure at Camp Striker in Baghdad, Iraq. Maya Alleruzzo/AP
Some of the last US combat troops prepare to leave Iraq and cross the border into Kuwait on Aug. 18. Department of Defense/Reuters
Soldiers gather for inspection of their night-vision equipment before driving from Iraq to Kuwait. Maya Alleruzzo/AP
Soldiers take part in the casing ceremony for the 4th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, the last American combat brigade to serve in Iraq, on Aug. 31. Maya Alleruzzo/AP
Soldiers with Bravo Company, 1st battalion, 116th Infantry Regiment march down Hines Lane at the Hines Memorial Armory in Lexington, Va., on Aug. 25, after returning home from Iraq. Pat Jarrett/The Daily News Leader/AP
His combat boots shown at left, US Army Spc. William Engel II, sits with his family in his nearly empty new apartment on Aug. 25 in Olympia, Wash. Engell returned from a one-year tour of duty to Iraq as a driver with the 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team. Engel and his fellow soldiers are part of the last brigade of combat troops which is now leaving Iraq, and heading home as part of the US drawdown of forces. Ted S. Warren/AP
Soldiers are seen in the motor pool at Camp Virginia in Kuwait as they strip their armored Stryker vehicles before shipping them to the US on Aug. 16. Maya Alleruzzo/AP
Janet Allegra of Ellington hugs her son Spc. John Allegra IV at the Army aviation support facility in Windsor Locks, Conn., Aug. 25. About 110 soldiers of the 250th Engineer Co. Connecticut National Guard, who were deployed to Iraq last winter, have returned home. Jessica Hill/AP
A US Army soldier waves from his Stryker armored vehicle after crossing the border from Iraq into Kuwait on Aug. 18. Maya Alleruzzo/AP
In Pictures: Oh to be young again, Mr. President!
In Pictures: Facing the devastation of the Oklahoma tornadoes
Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 05/22
Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 05/21
In Pictures: Sinkholes around the world
In Pictures: What happened to the green revolution in Iran?
In Pictures: Sandy: Chronicle of an unrelenting storm
Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 05/20
In Pictures: Weather extremes 2013
Yuichiro Miura became the oldest man to summit Mt. Everest. It was his third time. He reached the summit when he was 70 and 75, too. An 81-year-old Nepalese man plans to climb the summit next week.
An 80-year-old Japanese man became the oldest conqueror of Mount Everest on Thursday, a feat he called "the world's best feeling" even with an 81-year-old Nepalese climber not far behind him.
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