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US Marine hits an Iraqi boy.......
...with a dodge ball.
Photo Credit: Staff Sgt. Michel Sauret
U.S. Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt. Kevin Weintraub points to a boy who was hit "out" during a dodge ball game at a troop scout meeting in southern Baghdad, Iraq,.
Weintraub is assigned to Multi-National Force-Iraq as a foreign disclosure officer.
American Indian pride
Photo Credit: Spc. Josh LeCappelain
Edmund Nevaquaya, a member of the Kevin Locke Native Dance Ensemble, performs a traditional dance in celebration of Native American Heritage Month, Camp Victory, Iraq.
Click here for Edmond Nevaquaya’s bio page for the Kevin Locke Native Dance Ensemble.
What coalition? - Part 300
Photo Credit: Staff Sgt. Rasheen A. Douglas
Capt. Luis Lineras, an El Salvadoran Army doctor, looks at a patient's x-rays at the Al Salam Medical Clinic in Al Hayy, Iraq.
The U.S. Army's 7th Special Forces Group and El Salvadoran medics hosted a MEDREADY treating over 200 patients here.
Click here for other photos (PDF)
Happy Thanksgiving to our deployed troopsI want to thank all our men and women that are spending this Thanksgiving away from their family and friends protecting our freedoms and creating a more peaceful world.
From the serious to what hopefully will put a smile on your face, click here to watch a Thanksgiving scene from the TV show "WKRP in Cincinnati".
Photo Credit: Sgt. Jerry Sasley
PFC. Katty Marie Le Blanc and SPC. Reuben Jones display 8 turkeys that will be used for the brigade’s Thanksgiving dinner in Iraq.
“Every Soldier will get a good Thanksgiving dinner based upon patrol schedule,” said Command Sgt. Maj. Daniel Dailey, a Palmerton, Pa., native, who serves as the senior enlisted leader for the 3rd BCT, 4th Inf. Div. “It will be a continuous operation throughout the day.”
But turkey is not the only traditional food being served to the troops this holiday season. Sweet potato pie, apple cobbler and Baskin Robin’s ice cream are other treats to accompany the feast.
Clowny Patrol
Photo Credit: Petty Officer 2nd Class Todd Frantom
Airman 1st Class Justin Iverson and Staff Sgt. Peter Casola wave at passing cars during a walking patrol along streets within the Doura community located in southern Baghdad, Iraq.
Iverson and Casola are U.S. Airmen assigned to the 11th Security Forces Squadron, Detachment 3, 732nd Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division.
Nissan District
Photo Credit: Sgt. Jeremy Todd
Children wave to an Iraqi policemen that brought them a case of bottled water.
The IP and Soldiers from Company A, 1st Battalion, 66th Armor Regiment, 1st Brigade combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, attached to 4th BCT, 10th Mtn. Div., met in the morning to load two trucks: one with humanitarian-aid packages and the other with bottled water.
They headed to one of the poorest areas of the 9 Nissan District to hand out the goods. Each package contained rice, sugar and canned-food items packed in yellow knapsacks.
Click for more information about the picture.
Paper Rock Scissors
Photo Credit: Petty Officer 2nd Class Todd Frantom
U.S. Air Force airmen speak with Iraqi children during a patrol with Iraqi police in the Shurta Market of the Al-Bayaa district of Baghdad, Iraq.
The airmen are assigned to 732nd Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron.
Riverview Ferris Wheel
Photo Credit: Sgt. Gustavo Olgiati
U.S. Navy Sailors from Naval Special Operations Group, participate in a joint river patrol, along with their counterparts from the Iraqi Coast
Guard and Iraqi Police, in the Shatt al' Arab River, in Basra, Iraq.
Iraqi soldiers help California wildfire victims
Photo Credit: Afton Almaraz/AP
A group of Iraqi Soldiers stepped up to help California residents victimized by recent wildfires raging throughout the state. Iraqi Army Col. Abbas Fadhil, Besmaya Range Complex commander, and his team of “Abbas’ Eagles” raised $500 for wildfire relief.
Click here for more information abut the story.
Smile! You're on Candid CameraDo you remember the TV show "Smile! You're on Candid Camera"?
Photo Credit: Sgt. Jacob H. Smith
An Iraqi youth peers through the view finder of U.S. Army Spc. Neil Stanfield's video camera.
Stanfield is assigned to Joint Combat Camera Iraq and he was recording the opening ceremony of an electrical sub-station in the city of Sal Ba Bor Iraq.
Playing chess with Iraq
Photo Credit: Staff Sgt. Rasheen A. Douglas
U.S. Army 1st Lt. Justin Carter plays with baby while his mother is distracted during the chess club finale, in Shaykh Sa'ad City, Iraq.
Carter is with Battery C, 1st Battalion, 21st Field Artillery Regiment, 41st Fires Brigade. The young girls of Shaykh Sa'ad Primary School
attended a three week program as a way to exercise independent thinking.
Unique headgear
Photo Credit: Senior Airman Eric Harris
U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. David Bertles documents a meeting between a local Iraqi man and U.S. Army Capt. Jason Meloy.
Bertles is with 1st Combat Camera Squadron and Meloy is with 2nd Battalion, 8th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division. It was during a patrol of Diwaniyah, Iraq, to assess the markets and needs of the people. The Iraqi man is a construction worker.
Freedom of speech in the Middle East
Photo Credit: Capt. Brett Walker
Two boys join hands in a symbol of good will and hope for a new era in the nation of Iraq.
Children of southern Baghdad’s Doura community recently competed in a contest to indulge a budding sense of cultural pride and experiment with a newfound freedom of speech.
“The children were very proud,” stated Amir Salman, a councilmember of the Doura Neighborhood Council, who helped organize the event. “They have been telling all of their friends how much fun they had participating.”
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Veterans Day re-enlistment ceremony in Iraq
Photo Credit: Spc. Kiyoshi Freeman
Soldiers and members of a joint color guard render honors before a Veterans Day re-enlistment ceremony for 274 servicemembers on Joint Base Balad, Iraq.
"The stories of those in front of you are still being written," he said. "Today another chapter has begun. Wherever they go, whatever they do, each story will be different. Each will contain trials and deployments, and tales from lands yet to be seen. However, the common theme in each will be their selfless service and their universal commitment."
Click here for more information abut the picture.
Flag Football
Photo Credit: Petty Officer 2nd Class Todd Frantom
U.S. Army Soldiers enjoy a flag football game on Forward Operating Base Falcon, in southern Baghdad, Iraq.
The Soldiers are assigned to the 4th Infantry Division.
Fighting cancer in Iraq
Photo Credit: Staff Sgt. Michel Sauret
A row of decorated bags glow in honor of friends and family members fighting cancer during a moment of silence at the Hope Ceremony on Camp Victory.
Continuing the War on Terrorism
Photo Credit: Staff Sgt. Samuel Morse
U.S. Air Force Capt. Joshua Tyler, left, re-enlists Staff Sgt. Andrew Petrulis, Explosive Ordnance Division craftsman, at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan.
Petrulis' teammates took advantage of a training opportunity to time the "fireball" detonation at a safe distance to make the re-enlistment a more memorable event for their comrade. Tyler and Petrulis are assigned to the 755th Air Expeditionary Group Explosive Ordnance Disposal Operating Location.
Lessons Learned at Nujdom Alba
Photo Credit: 2nd Lt. Gordon Bostick
Students look up from their lessons at Nujdom Alba school.
Youngsters cry out with their hands in the air trying to get the teacher’s attention. One is selected and he marches up to the blackboard to recite the day’s lesson written there. When he finishes, the teacher praises him and he returns to his desk, a grin on his face.
School is back in session here in Sadr City, and the students couldn’t be happier.
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Clean water for first time in Iraq
Photo Credit: Pfc. Evan Loyd
Mr. Dean Michael and Capt. Benjamin Neasse toast the completion of a new water distribution system.
“Before this system, some people had no water besides the dirty canal water,” said a local Sheikh Kagoob Joad al-Merce. “Now many of those people have clean drinking water for the first time in their lives.”
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Yellow Rooster "torture"
Swing the kids until hey throw up.
Photo Credit: Sgt. Jerry Saslav
A father pushes his son on a swing during the grand opening at Dover Park in the Qahira neighborhood of the Adhamiyah District of Baghdad.
“This is our first park in Qahira. We never had one before,” said Mohamed Madaloom, the Qahira Neighborhood Assistance Council chairman.
The park has a small pond with a generator-run fountain with a flock of geese as well as benches, solar lights, several swings, slides and seesaws. There is also a tiled path lined with flowers and new grass has been planted. A gardener and a security guard, he added, will be hired.
Click hre for more information abut the picture.
Do you see what I saw?
Photo Credit: Sgt. Jerry Saslav
A little girl rides on a seesaw at the grand opening of Dover Park in the Qahira neighborhood in the Adhamiyah District of Baghdad.
The park, refurbished by a Multi-National Division - Baghdad contract, is the first public park in the neighborhood.
Airborne fights hand to hand in Iraq
Photo Credit: MC2 James Wagner
U.S Army Capt. Scott Cassidy plays with a local Iraqi boy while visiting a school renovation site in Iskandariyah, Iraq.
Cassidy is from the 2nd Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division.
Buddies
Photo Credit: Spc. Joshua E. Powell
An Iraqi boy greets U.S. Army soldiers as they travel through the streets of Baghdad, Iraq, stopping at various shops.
The soldiers, assigned to the 4th Infantry Division's Command Security Detachment, 3rd Battalion Combat Team, working to provide local shop owners with micro-grants to improve their businesses.
The Pepsi backpack "torture"
Photo Credit: Sgt. 1st Class Christina Bhatti
A young Iraqi student smiles after receiving a new backpack full of supplies after the Fahama Primary School opening celebration.
The school in the Istaqlal Qada, northeast of Baghdad, underwent approximately $200,000 worth of renovations.
Deployed votes: will they be counted?
Photo Credit: Staff Sgt. Michel Sauret
U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Cedric Covington, Headquarters & Headquarters Company, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, helps soldiers register to vote at the dining facility on Forward Operating Base Kalsu, in Iraq.
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