During a humanitarian mission, LTC Guy Edmondson, military transition team commander, 2nd Brigade, 2nd Iraqi Army Division, handed out clothing to village children in Mosul, Iraq. Edmondson came to Iraq in March and is stationed on the same Forward Operating Base as his son, SPC Michael Edmondson, in Mosul, Iraq.
Pic: PFC Bradley Clark

Maj. Ehsan Moddafar Uraby, the planning officer of 3rd Battalion, 1st Brigade, 11th Iraqi Army Division shakes hands with Radcliff, Ky., native Lt. Col. Jeff Broadwater, the commander of 3rd Squadron, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division from Fort Stewart, Ga., after receiving a combat patch as a symbol of brotherhood at Combat Outpost War Eagle. The Soldiers, operating in Baghdad with the 2nd BCT, 82nd Airborne Div., and their Iraqi counterparts planned a mission to clear Hayy Al Wazariyah industrial park of the Adhamiyah District of Baghdad.
Pic: SPC Leith Edgar

A coalition member enjoys a playful moment with an Iraqi child during Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Senior Airman Nicoletta Kanakis, a 407th Expeditionary Communications squadron videographer, Ali Air Base, Iraq, docments members of the 407th Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron as they remove the steel cement forms from around a cement pad they had recently laid on Camp Mittica, Iraq. The 407th ECES is on the Iraqi base building a 220 foot by 200 foot cement drill pad that will be used by the Iraqi army to train their enlisted soldiers.
Pic: Master Sgt. Robert W. Valenca

SSG Mark Maczuga, a Chicago, Ill. native and optometry non-commissioned officer from Sustainment Brigade (Airborne), 82nd Airborne Division examines the eyes of SPC Richard “Dick” Herold, a paratrooper from Butler, Pa. and a member of 725th Brigade Support Battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division at Forward Operating Base Kalsu, Iraq. Pic: MAJ Eric Verzola

An Iraqi army and U.S. Soldier engage a local citizen in a building nearby the mosque in Old Baqubah, Iraq in Diyala province. Local citizens assisted Soldiers in finding information about al-Qaida terrorists involved in an earlier firefight.

An Iraqi soldier takes the names of a man and his two children before they see the doctor during a medical operation in Baghdad’s Karkh District conducted by Task Force 1-14.
Pic: SPC Robert Yde

LTC Margret Merino, brigade surgeon for the 1st Cavalry Division’s 2nd Brigade Combat Team, examines a young boy during a medical operation in Baghdad’s Karkh District.
Pic: SPC Robert Yde

Members of the Iraqi special operations forces advised by coalition forces conduct a combat operation to detain suspected terrorist leaders of an insurgent force in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Pic: Petty Officer 1st Class Michael B.W. Watkins

Staff Sgt. William D. Lee, an electrical equipment repair specialist with Marine Tactical Air Command Squadron-28 (MTACS-28) troubleshoots a MEP 805B tactical quiet generator on Al Asad Air Base. MTACS-28 is deployed as a part of Multi National Forces-West in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in the Al Anbar province of Iraq to develop the Iraqi Security Forces, facilitate the development of official rule of law through democratic government reforms and continue the development of a market based economy centered on Iraqi reconstruction.

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Photographer: Cpl. Darnell Surles

Sgt. Candace L. Coulter, a field wireman with Marine Wing Communications Squadron-28 (MWCS-28), terminates fiber-optics aboard Al Asad Air Base, Iraq. MWCS-28 is deployed as a part of Multi National Forces-West in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in the Al Anbar province of Iraq to develop the Iraqi security forces, facilitate the development of official rule of law through democratic government reforms and continue the development of a market-based economy centered on Iraqi reconstruction.
Pic: Cpl. Darnell Surles