Through a lens of a camera - it almost looks like home.
 

A 1st Squadron, 278th Regimental Combat Team, Apache Troop Soldier stands security while members of his squad search a store in the Balad Ruz Marketplace, Iraq.
 

Senior leaders receive a briefing before the last leg of their march north. Members of the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, Task Force Liberty ‘crossed the berm’ into Iraq for the second time. Some of the division’s Soldiers had served in Operation Iraqi Freedom 1, while others served in Desert Storm as well.
 

SGT Dilts, gunner on the lead humvee for HHC 1 BCT, adjusts his kevlar helmet before a convoy embarks
on a trip from Camp New York, Kuwait to Camp Dagger in northern Iraq.
 

CPT Shane Garrison, 4/64 Armor information operations officer, gives an Iraqi woman a package of diapers during the March 9 medical outreach program.

CPT Daniel Green, battalion surgeon for 4/64 Armor, numbs the finger of a small boy after he injured his finger during the March 9 medical outreach program. 

U.S. Marine Cpl. Duran ensures a wall is plumb before it is nailed down to the floor of a building being constructed in Al Taqaddum. Duran is attached to the 371st Combat Engineers, Marine Wing Support Squadron 371, which is building the structure for use by Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 775. Pic: Cpl. Marsha N. Garcia, USMC 

Corporal L. DeVane, a Bulk Fuels Specialist with Marine Wing Support Squadron 371, mans the fuel pump system during hot refueling on the flight line aboard Al Taqaddum. Pic: Cpl Marsha N. Garcia, USMC
 

PVT Matthew Taylor, SPC Abmale Marquez and 1SG John McNichols go over an inspection checklist for an M113 mortar carrier. Pic: SPC Brian Trapp

 

MAJ Hugh Shoults, operations officer, Task Force Dragon, XVIII Airborne Corps, Fort Bragg, N.C., is the third generation of Shoults men to carry this particular bugle to a combat zone. The family tradition began with his grandfather in 1916. Shoults father and uncle carried the bugle in battle in World War II and Vietnam. Shoults, 38, is from Spokane, Wash. Pic: SGT Michael J. Carden
 

Army Corps of Engineers Maj. Stewart Stanton (center) and U.S. Army Soldiers with the 155th Brigade Combat Team speak with Iraqi contractors during an inspection of the Babylon Police Station reconstruction efforts, in Babil. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers are working with the people of Iraq to repair and construct several Iraqi Police stations and schools throughout the Babil Province. Pic: Chief Photographer's Mate Edward Martens, U.S. Navy.  

U.S. Army Chaplin Tommy Fuller takes a photo of Iraqi school children at the Al Mutnba Primary School located near Camp Kalsu, Iraq, on March 22, 2005. Members of the155th Brigade Combat Team from Tupelo, Miss., are delivering school supplies under a Fuller-initiated Adopt a School program aboard Camp Kalsu where different units choose a local school and try to connect them with a U.S. school to help with supplies and start a pen pal program. Pic: Petty Officer 1st Class Brien Aho, U.S. Navy.
 

SGT Eric David, a POB liaison NCO attched to 3/69 Armor, attempts to overcome the language barrier with POB officers in Samarra. Pic: SPC Jimmy D. Lane Jr. 

1LT Barry Humphrey, a 3/69 Armor fire direction officer, shows a POB officer how to work his radio in Samarra. Pic: SPC Jimmy D. Lane Jr. 

SPC Jon Vandebogert, from Milwaukee, Wis. of B Batt. 126th Field Artillery, attached to 1st Battalion, 141st Field Artillery of the 256th Brigade Combat Team, is all smiles as the Secretary of the Army, the Honorable Francis Harvey, inquires about his life. Pic: SPC Erin Robicheaux, 

PFC Tiffany Shockley assists CPT Michael Sanders, both with the 520th Area Support Medical Command, Ft. Lewis, Wa., in performing oral surgery on an Iraqi detainee at the Camp Bucca Internment Facility Aid Station. Pic: SPC Jeremy D. Crisp 

Two Iraqi officers from Company D, 604th Battalion, Iraqi Army, use their soldiers to demonstrate the proper technique and procedure to search personnel at a traffic control point stop during a training exercise at the 604th Bn. training facility in An Nasiriyah. Pic: SGT Michael J. Carden)  

PFC Maria L. Morales, a generator mechanic with 175th Engineer Company, 20th Engineer Brigade and a combat life saver course student, prepares a bag of fluids before she gives an intravenous injection during the combat life saver course. The combat life saver course was held at the Camp Victory Troop Medical Clinic. Pic: SPC Mary Rose 

SPC Noel A. De Jesus, a Multi Nation Force - Iraq military police and a combat life saver course student, practices giving an intravenous injection during the combat life saver course. The combat life saver course was held at the Camp Victory Troop Medical Clinic. Pic: SPC Mary Rose 

PFC Maria L. Morales, a generator mechanic with 175th Engineer Company, 20th Engineer Brigade and a combat life saver course student, gives an intravenous injection during the combat life saver course. The combat life saver course was held at the Camp Victory Troop Medical Clinic. Pic: SPC Mary Rose, 

SGT Michael Saina of 4th Battalion, 1st Field Artillery Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 1st Armor Division provides security along a road in Taji. Saina, a resident of Fagatogo, American Samoa is currently serving his third tour of duty in Iraq (awesome!!!) Pic: SGT Kevin Bromley 

SPC Jeff Sinclair, an infantryman assigned to 1st Battalion, 184th Infantry Regiment and a native of Modesto, Calif., donates sandals to an Iraqi girl in the southern Baghdad neighborhood of Al Dora. Sinclair is employed as a police officer in California. Pic:1LT Cameron Murphy 

SPC Jeff Sinclair, an infantryman assigned to 1st Battalion, 184th Infantry Regiment and a native of Modesto, Calif., hands a teddy bear to an Iraqi child in the southern Baghdad neighborhood of Al Dora. Pic: 1LT Cameron Murphy 

Two little boys triumphantly walk towards their home after accepting gifts of toys and clothes from Soldiers of the 256th Brigade Combat Team. Troops from 1st Battalion, 141st Field Artillyer and A Co. 1st Battalion, 156thd Armor Regiment, joined together to distribute the items that were received from donations through the website: www.childrenofbaghdad.com. The site was created by SSG Shaun Warren and SGT Keith Bonnet of 1/141st FA. Pic: SPC Erin Robicheaux. 

Soldiers from the 4th Iraqi Army stand in formation during a ceremony held for their graduation of the 4th Iraqi Army Training Academy Primary Leadership and Developement Course in Tikrit. Pic: SGT Jennifer J. Eidson 

Soldiers from the 4th Iraqi Army say the noncommissioned officer creed during a ceremony held for their graduation of the 4th Iraqi Army Training Academy Primary Leadership and Developement Course in Tikrit. Pic: SGT Jennifer J. Eidson