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LCPL Ed Misker of Headquarters and Service Co., Battalion Landing Team, 2nd Bn., 8th Marines (BLT 2/8), looks out over a field while standing guard duty. Troops from the U.S. and other coalition nations are in Dahuk for Operation Provide Comfort, a multinational effort to aid Kurdish refugees in southern Turkey and northern Iraq. Misker is armed with an M-16A2 rifle equipped with an M-203 grenade launcher

LCPL Dan M. Cloonan Jr., Marine Service Support Group 24 (MSSG-24), mans an M-2 .50-caliber machine gun from his post atop an M-934 5-ton cargo truck as a convoy of Marines and Navy medical personnel enters Zakhu. The convoy has arrived to assist Kurdish refugees inhabiting a tent city set up as part of Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid the refugees who fled the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq.

LCPL Brian Quinn, left, and LCPL Giacomo DiGiacomo of Battalion Landing Team, 2nd Bn., 8th Marines (BLT 2/8), sit under the Mark 19 automatic grenade launcher mounted on an M1038 High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) parked in a former Iraqi army compound. Troops from the U.S. and other coalition nations are in Dahuk for Operation Provide Comfort, a multinational effort to aid Kurdish refugees in southern Turkey and northern Iraq

CPL Darryl F. Fuller, Marine Service Support Group 24 (MSSG-24), mans an M-2 .50-caliber machine gun from his post atop an M-934 5-ton cargo truck as a convoy of Marines and Navy medical personnel enters Zakhu. The convoy has arrived to assist Kurdish refugees inhabiting a tent city set up as part of Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid the refugees who fled the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq.

A Marine from Battalion Landing Team, 2nd Bn., 8th Marines (BLT 2/8), mans the M-2 .50-caliber machine gun mounted on the roof of an M-923 5-ton cargo truck as the truck passes through the city. Troops from the U.S. and other coalition nations are in Dahuk for Operation Provide Comfort, a multinational effort to aid Kurdish refugees in southern Turkey and northern Iraq

Lance CPL. Clennon Roe of Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) Service Support Group 24 (MSSG-24) looks at a vandalized mural of Iraqi president Saddam Hussein in a former Iraqi army compound. Troops from the U.S. and other coalition nations are in Dahuk as part of Operation Provide Comfort, a multinational effort to aid Kurdish refugees in southern Turkey and northern Iraq

Members of the Iraqi National Guard, armed with AK-47 rifles from atop their High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle, pull over a truck while U.S Marine Corps Marines from the 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 1ST Marine Division, watch during a vehicle check point training at Camp Korean Village, a base camp near the Western Syrian-Iraq border, on Nov. 6, 2004. The 1ST MARDIV, in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom II, is engaged in Security and Stabilization Operations (SASO) in the Al Anbar province of Iraq. (USMC PHOTO by LCpl Andrew D. Young) (Released)

A member of the Iraqi National Guard, using an AK-47 rifle, practices detaining multiple passengers during a vehicle check point training with U.S Marine Corps Marines from the 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 1ST Marine Division, at Camp Korean Village, a base camp near the Western Syrian-Iraq border, on Nov. 6, 2004. The 1ST MARDIV, in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom II, is engaged in Security and Stabilization Operations (SASO) in the Al Anbar province of Iraq. (USMC PHOTO by LCpl Andrew D. Young) (Released)

COL. Hansen loads his M-9 pistol before departing Camp Fallujah on March 26, 2007. Regimental Combat Team 6 Personal Security Detail travels by convoy to the Fallujah City Council Meeting to discuss future operations. Regimental Combat Team 6 is deployed with II Marine Expeditionary Force in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in the Anbar Province of Iraq (Multi-National Forces-West) 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. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by CPL. Neill A. Sevelius) (Released)

LCPL Ed Misker of Co. H, 2nd Bn., 8th Marine Regiment stands watch in a wheat field near a deserted Iraqi training compound near Dahuk. Misker, armed with an M-16 rifle equipped with an M-209 grenade launcher, is part of U.S. military presence in the area during Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid Kurdish refugees who fled the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq

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Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORT

Country: Iraq(IRQ)

Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Mark Kettenhofen

Release Status: Released to Public

Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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label_outline Explore Misker, Dahuk, Ph 2 Mark Kettenhofen

U.S. Navy Seabees assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion Seven Four (NMCB-74) place concertina wire around their compound in Muzafarrabad, Pakistan.

US Embassy in Bangkok - Compound Site - 1989

A U.S. Soldier assigned to 1st Battalion, 41st Infantry

Retired U.S. Army Staff Sgt. David N. Heaton, formerly

A U.S. Soldier assigned to 1st Battalion, 41st Infantry

US Army (USA) Corps of Engineers (USACE) Derek Walker (third from left, wearing desert camouflage), USACE Construction Representative, speaks with several Iraqi engineers, working with the USACE, about the progress of the Sumail Primary Health Clinic being built in Dahuk, Dahuk Province, Iraq (IRQ), by Iraqi contractors and sub-contractors as an US Army (USA) Corps of Engineers (USACE) designed and managed C type clinic (the largest and most capable of all health clinics) during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

A water tank and a line of M998 High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWV) stand on an airfield. Equipment is being delivered to an airfield as part of Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid the refugees who fled from the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq

After returning from a six-month deployment for Operation IRAQI FREEDOM, Colonel (COL) Robert J. Knapp, (left), USMC, Commanding Officer of Headquarters Battalion (HQ BN), 1ST Marine Division (1MARDIV), Camp Pendleton, California, stops by HQ BN Armory and checks with STAFF Sergeant (SSGT) W. G. Quenga, USMC. SSGT Quenga was the SNCOIC on duty for Camp Guard Services, and is attached to Headquarters and Service Company (H & S Co), Substance Abuse Control Officer (SACO), HQ BN 1MARDIV. Operation IRAQI FREEDOM is the multinational coalition effort to liberate the Iraqi people, eliminate Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and end the regime of Saddam Hussein

A US Marine Corps (USMC) Marine of Bravo Company, 1ST Battalion (BN), 5th Marines (MAR), 1ST Marine Division (MAR DIV), hands an identification (ID) card to an Iraqi Civil Defense Corps (ICDC) Soldier during registration and processing at the ICDC compound. The 1ST MAR DIV is engaged in Security and Stabilization Operations (SASO) in the area during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. The Marine is armed with a 5.56 mm M16A2 rifle with an M203 40 mm grenade launcher

A U.S. Army Ranger, assigned to Alpha Company, 1st

A UH-60 Black Hawk (Blackhawk) helicopter patrols over a tent city near Zakhu that was established for Kurdish refugees. The encampment was erected as part of Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid Kurds who fled the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq

Slovakian army Gen. Bronislaw Kwiatkowski hands gifts to an Iraqi soldier who is accepting the gifts on behalf of a fallen soldier at the 8th Iraqi army division compound near Ad-Diwaniyah, Iraq, Jan. 6, 2007. The 8th IAD is recognizing fallen soldiers by presenting gifts to their families or representatives of their families on Iraqi army day. (U.S. Army photo by SGT. Rob Summitt) (Released)

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