SPC Scott Turk, a combat medic with Company A, Task Force 1-128, conducts a pre-mission inspection with the Iraqi army medic to make sure he has all the necessary supplies before going out on a patrol near Forward Operating Base ORyan, Balad.
Pic: SGT Jennifer J. Eidson
 

SFC Todd Kuchelmeister 2nd Platoon, Company A, 1st Battalion, 128th Infantry Regiment, talks with local Iraqi leaders about construction projects taking place at a nearby school.
Pic: SGT Jennifer J. Eidson
 

An Iraqi army soldier inspecting the indetification of some local nationals at a traffic control point near Forward Operating Base ORyan, Balad. Pic: SGT Jennifer J. Eidson

 

SFC Todd Kuchelmeister, platoon sergeant for 2nd Platoon, Company A, 1st Battalion, 128th Infantry Regiment, conducts an after action review with Iraqi army soldiers, shortly after they returned from a patrol. PicL SGT Jennifer J. Eidson

 

PL Kierys, assigned to the 443 Civil Affairs Battalion, Bravo Company, watches Iraqi police officers train on proper vehicle search procedures Camp Prosperity, Baghdad. Bravo Company held a one day refresher course that also included marksmanship and weapons care. Pic: Tech.Sgt. Russell E. Cooley IV, USAF
 

Iraqi Soldiers from the 8th Platoon, 1st Mechanized Division patrol areas in Baghdad. Pic: SPC Ronald Shaw Jr.
 

CPT Jesse Cornelius, Agriculture Officer for the 155th Brigade Combat Team, stops by a marketplace to check the quality and price of the vegetables and chickens in Dunis. Pic: SSgt Reynaldo Ramon, USAF 

Iraqi soldiers detain numerous insurgents during OPERATION SQUEEZE PLAY in Abu Grab. Pic: SGT Ronald Shaw Jr. 

Soldiers from the Mongolin Military, assisted by SPC Kile Brooks from the 940th MP Company, provide humanitarian aid to an Iraqi civilian suffering from a broken ankle in the town of Al Hillah. Pic: SGT Arthur Hamilton 

Polish General Skrzypczak, Commander of the MNDC, congratulates soldiers from the El Salvadoran Army for their work in the town of Al Hillah. Pic: SGT Arthur Hamilton. 

CSM Richard Hairston motivates a Superfrog competition participant who is breaking down a 9mm at the US Embassy, Baghdad, Iraq, on May 27, 2005. Superfrog is a team combat conditioning course that pits teams of 3 against 9 other teams, to include all services, countries, military or civilian. Pic: Staff Sgt. Jeromy K. Cross, USAF 

Camp Liberty, Iraq - SPC Robyn L. Murray, SPC Amanda N. Godlewski and SPC Lilly R. Withers on top of a humvee, ready to provide security for a mission on the streets of Baghdad. Pic: SPC Jennifer Fitts 

Tennessee National Guardsman SFC Joel Gibbons, a cavalry scout platoon sergeant from 1st Squadron, 278th Regimental Combat Team, 42nd Infantry Division, Task Force Liberty, stands guard while an Iraqi child passes along information of an enemy weapons cache found near the Iranian border to the commander of the squadron. Pic: SGT Matthew Acosta.
 

Marines and Sailors from Regimental Combat Team �2 and members of the Iraqi Security Forces continues operations in and around the city of Haditha. Pic: Cpl Neil A. Sevelius, USMC
 

An Iraqi soldier patrols through the city here during Operation New Market. The operation is being conducted to disrupt insurgent activity and continue to place pressure on insurgents in the vicinity of Haditha after Operation Matador. Pic: Cpl Neil A. Sevelius, USMC

 

A U.S. Army Soldier keeps a watchful eye as soldiers with Eagle Troop, 2nd Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, conduct door-to-door raids in Tall Afar. Pic: SPC Jory C. Randall
 

CAMP TAJI - SGT Jennifer L. Viera, a medic with Headquarters Platoon, 550th Area Support Medical Company describes her next treatment move to her test facilitator. Viera, from Fayetteville, N.C., was taking her Army required Semi-Annual Combat Medic Validation Test. Refresher instruction prior to the three days of testing had been held twice weekly for 6 weeks. Pic: Peter Chadwick 

CAMP TAJI - SGT Roberta H. Minor, a medic with the 547th Area Support Medical Company, extracts a victim from a HMMWV while CPT David Hamilton, 550th Area Support Medical Company observes. Pic: SFC Peter Chadwick 

CAMP TAJI - SGT Michael L. Faux, left, and SPC Jesse L. Wright, both health care specialists with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 4th Battalion, 3rd Aviation Regiment, perform CPR as part of their Army required Semi-Annual Combat Medic Validation Test. The two medics took refresher instruction, held twice weekly for 6 weeks, prior to the three days of testing. Pic: SFC Peter Chadwick 

PFC Darrell W. Gibson, left, stabilizes the victim neck while SGT Roberta H. Minor prepares to open the airway. Pic: SFC Peter Chadwick, D 

Petty Officer 3rd Class Curtis Brouse, a corpsman with Alpha team, Bravo Company, 2d Military Police Battalion, Combat Logistics Regiment 25, 2d Force Service Support Group (Forward), stands in front of vehicle Evil 5, holding a book with a poem depicting the description of a corpsmen in the face of battle. The Peculiar, Mo., native has deployed to Iraq three times since the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Pic: CPL C.J. Yard


 

SGT Joshua Merriman, Beckley, W. Va. native and project manager directs one of the Marine on his crew. The 10 Marines with Heavy Equipment Platoon, Support Company, 8th Engineer Support Battalion, 2d Force Service Support Group (Forward), built a new Entry Control Point on Camp Habbaniyah recently to enhance force protection on the base. Pic: SSG Amy S. Contreras

 

Marines from 6th Engineer Support Battalion, augmenting 8th ESB and supporting Combat Logistics Battalion 2, 2d Force Service Support Group (Forward), inspect their work on a crater they repaired in Western Iraq recently as part of an Engineer Crater Repair mission. Pic: CPL John E. Lawson Jr.
 

Petty Officer 3rd Class T. Scott Garmon, a surgical technician and Douglasville, Ga., native, and Petty Officer 2nd Class Amy M. Smith, an operating room technician and Tacoma, Wash., native with Combat Logistics Battalion-2, 2d Force Service Support Group (Forward), grill hamburgers, hot dogs and chicken wings for their fellow sailors at the hospital. The staff at the hospital took a break from the daily grind of operations in Iraq to cookout and play sports. Pic: Cpl. John E. Lawson Jr.


 

Petty Officer 3rd Class T. Scott Garmon, a surgical technician and Douglasville, Ga., native, with Combat Logistics Battalion-2, 2d Force Service Support Group (Forward), serves hamburgers, hot dogs and chicken wings to fellow sailors at the hospital here March 23. The staff at the hospital took a break from the daily grind of operations in Iraq to cookout and play sports, but their morale day was interrupted by indirect fire and again by the need for medical personnel when a few wounded Marines were medically evacuated to the hospital by helicopter. Pic: CPL John E. Lawson Jr.