Iraqi Soldiers from the 3rd Company, 2nd Squadron, 4th Task Force, walk through the streets of Tuz searching houses for weapons and contraband in a Kurdish neighborhood. Pic: Staff Sgt. Suzanne M. Day, USAF
 

Members from the Explosive Ordinance Disposal Team, Forward Operating Base Bernstein, blow up 514 confiscated 57-mm anti-aircraft rounds in Deles. Pic: Staff Sgt. Suzanne M. Day, USAF
 

U.S. Marines from the 1st Battalion, 6th Marines, Bravo Company, search a building for weapons and contraband near Lake Tharthar.. Pic: Lance Cpl. Isaac Aguilar
 

Soldiers from the 111th Engineer Battalion, Texas Army National Guard, look in to the video camera, promoting their support of the American Red Cross during a live broadcast feed to news stations in Dallas and Houston
Pic: SGT Michael J. Carden
 

SGM Kenny Gilluly, theater command career counselor, Multi-National Corps - Iraq, works up a sweat during a morning run at Camp Victory. Pic: SGT Michael J. Carden
 

SGT Jose Alexander Parrilla, topographical engineer, 175th Eng. Company, 20th Eng. Brigade, Fort Bragg, N.C., pedals his way to work at Camp Victory. Pic: SGT Michael J. Carden
 

SGT Omar Polk (left), cook, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, XVIII Airborne Corps, Fort Bragg, N.C., and SPC Brandon Harris, quick reaction force, Task Force Dragon, XVIII Abn. Corps, work on combination punches during a boxing class at Camp Victory. Pic: SGT Michael J. Carden

 

U.S. Army Soldiers from Headquarters Troop, Mortar, 2nd Squadron, 278th Regimental Combat Team fire 120mm mortars from Forward Operating Base Bernstein. Pic: Staff Sgt. Suzanne M. Day, USAF
 

Iraqi Soldiers from the 3rd Company, 2nd Squadron, 4th Task Force, walk through the streets of Tuz searching houses for weapons and contraband during Operation Salam Al Tuz II, (Peace at Tuz), in a Kurdish neighborhood. Pic: Staff Sgt. Suzanne M. Day, USAF
 

SSG Brian M. VanNote,(center), 3rd squad Leader, 2nd Platoon, Troop K, 1st Battalion, 128th Infantry Regiment, briefs a squad leader from 4th Battalion, 1st Brigade, 4th Divison of the Iraqi Army on their days mission. Troop K conducts joint combat patrols daily with soldiers from Iraqi Army preparing them to take on the reponsiblilty of performing security operations in Iraq.
Pic: SGT Daniel W. Bailey
 

A young child peers from a doorway at a U.S. Soldier
during a joint air assault mission with Iraqi Army soldiers.
Pic: SSG Peter Towse
 

An Iraqi Security Force member walks past an Iraqi man and two boys riding a bicycle during a mission.
Pic: U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Tom Sloan
 

U.S. Marine Corps Cpl Lance Juan-Luis Valdes and
members of the Iraqi Security Forces leave a home
during a mission. Pic: Cpl Tom Sloan, USMC
 

A U.S. Soldier examines contraband recovered from a joint raid conducted by Iraqi and Coalition forces. Pic: SPC Jerome Bishop
 

Iraqi soldiers take charge of a suspected insurgent during a house raid. Increasing numbers of IEDs on main supply route Tampa led to the raids. Pic: SPC Jerome Bishop
 

A soldier with the 1st Battalion, 1st Brigade, 5th Iraqi Army Division provides perimeter security in the rural areas north of Baghdad. Army soldiers searched residences and fields in coordination with 1st Battalion, 13th Armor
Regiment, 3rd Brigade 1st U.S. Armored Division. Pic: SPC Kevin Bromley
 

A soldier of the 1st Battalion, 1st Brigade, 5th Iraqi
Army Division uses a metal detector to find illegal munitions during a search operation near Taji. Pic: SPC Mathew Webster
 

A soldier of the 1st Battalion, 1st Brigade, 5th Iraqi Army Division helps secure a cordon area alongside American troops during a search operation near Taji. Pic: SPC Mathew Webster
 

U.S. Army Lt. Gen. David H. Petraeus observes
Iraqi police marksmanship training at Camp
Kalsu. Pic: CPT Larry George
 

Soldiers from the mechanized platoon, 2nd Battalion,
2nd Brigade, 4th Iraqi Army Division secure
suspected terrorists captured from a building during
a training exercise. Pic: CPT Larry George
 

Leadership of 2nd Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 4th Iraqi Army Division provide a briefing to LTG David Petraeus and other officials at their base camp in Al Miqdadiyah. Pic: CPT Larry George 

SPCs. Monica Phillips and Shiloe Weston, both U.S. Army Soldiers with the 116th Brigade Combat Team, remove the transmission from an M26 HMMWV at Kirkuk Air Base. Pic: Tech. Sgt. Christopher Gish, U.S. Air Force
 

U.S. Army SGTs Anthony Blair and Ira Turner interview a local Iraqi Police Chief at a police station in Al Dawaniyah. The soldiers, both with the 940th Military Police (MP) Company in Walton, Ky., are gathering information on the progresses of local Iraqi Police. Pic: SGT Arthur D. Hamilton.


 

Smoke fills the sky as U.S. Marines destroy an insurgent stronghold during Operation Spear in Karabilah. Marines of the 2nd Marine Division are conducting counter-insurgency operations with Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) to isolate and neutralize Anti-Iraqi Forces. Pic: Lance Cpl. Shane S. Keller, U.S. Marine Corps.
 

A U.S. Marine radios in to confirm the destruction of a hostile vehicle in the city of Karabilah. Operation Spear is being conducted to destroy strong points held by insurgents in the city of Karbilah. These Marines are assigned to 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment. Pic: Cpl. Neill A. Sevelius, U.S. Marine Corps.