Pictures of the Week: March 19 – 25, 2005

A soldier checks his prosthetic leg as he prepares to jump over Pope Air Force Base, North Carolina
SARA D. DAVIS / AP

Call to Duty
Spc. George Perez checks the straps of his parachute as he prepares to jump over Pope Air Force Base, North Carolina. Perez lost his left leg in Iraq in 2003 when his humvee was hit by a roadside bomb. He has returned to the military after a year of medical disability with a prosthetic leg and is scheduled to depart to Afghanistan in the Spring

Saturday, Mar 19, 2005