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US Army (USA) Soldiers from Charlie (C) Company (CO), 1ST Battalion (BN), 5th Infantry Regiment (INF REGT), 1ST Brigade (BDE), 25th Infantry Division (ID) Stryker Brigade Combat Team (SBCT), stand watch from just outside a police station, in Mosul, Iraq, during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. The Soldiers are armed with a Special Operation Peculiar Modification (SOPMOD) M4 rifles and the Police are armed with a Tabuk 7.62 mm short assault rifle

US Army (USA) Captain (CPT) Kevin Burke, Charlie (C) Company (CO), 1ST Battalion (BN), 5th Infantry Regiment (INF REGT), 1ST Brigade (BDE), 25th Infantry Division (ID) Stryker Brigade Combat Team (SBCT), talks to two teenage boys in front of the police station in Mosul, Iraq, during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. CPT Burke is armed with a Special Operation Peculiar Modification (SOPMOD) M4 rifle

US Army (USA) Soldiers from 2nd Platoon (PLT), Bravo (B) Company (CO), 1ST Battalion (BN), 5th Infantry (INF), 25th Infantry Division (ID) (Stryker Brigade Combat Team (SBCT)), scans the horizon for threats from a USA M1126 Stryker Infantry Carrier Vehicle (ICV), with Slat Armor cage, while on patrol near Mosul, Iraq. The SBCT is assigned to Task Force Freedom supporting Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

US Army Private (PVT) Kueth Dolvony, Charlie Troop (C TRP), 4th Battalion (BN), 14th Cavalry (CAV), 2nd Platoon (PLT), provides security with a KAC 5.56 mm Modular Weapon System (MWS) SOPMOD (Special Operation Peculiar Modification) M4, at the backside of a house outside Rawah, Iraq (IRQ), during a search for weapons caches during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

US Army (USA) STAFF Sergeant (SSG) Curtis Chekel, 2nd Platoon (PLT), Bravo (B) Company (CO), 1ST Battalion (BN), 5th Infantry (INF), 25th Infantry Division (ID) (Stryker Brigade Combat Team (SBCT)), takes an over watch position providing cover for his teammates conducting a traffic control point (TCP) during a patrol near Mosul, Iraq. The SBCT is assigned to Task Force Freedom supporting Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

US Army (USA) SPECIALIST Fourth Class (SFC) Theodore Amell, 2nd Platoon (PLT), Bravo (B) Company (CO), 1ST Battalion (BN), 5th Infantry (INF), 25th Infantry Division (ID) (Stryker Brigade Combat Team (SBCT)), scans the horizon with an M21 sniper weapon system for threats while on patrol near Mosul, Iraq. The SBCT is assigned to Task Force Freedom supporting Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. The M21 system is made up of a 7.62 mm M14 rifle with specially selected and hand-fitted parts and a scope

US Army (USA) SPECIALIST Fourth Class (SFC) Christopher Donnelly of 2nd Platoon (PLT), Bravo (B) Company (CO), 1ST Battalion (BN), 5th Infantry (INF), 25th Infantry Division (ID) (Stryker Brigade Combat Team (SBCT)), searches Iraqi citizens for suspicious items at a traffic control point (TCP) while on patrol near Mosul, Iraq. The SBCT is assigned to Task Force Freedom supporting Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

US Army (USA) Captain (CPT) Colin Brooks, Commander, Bravo Company (B CO), 2nd Battalion (BN), 8th Infantry Regiment (INF REGT) (2-8), 2nd Brigade Combat Team (BCT), 4th Infantry Division (ID), helps an Iraqi Army (IA) Soldier fire rounds down range during a training evolution as part of a two-week basic military training (BMT) course during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. The IA Soldier in the foreground is firing a MNMI 7.62 mm M240G machine gun, the rest are firing 7.62 mm PKM light machine guns

A US Army (USA) Soldier from Bravo (B) Company (CO), 3rd Battalion (BN), 21st Infantry Regiment (INF REGT) (3-21), 1ST Brigade (BDE), 25th Infantry Division (ID) Stryker Brigade Combat Team (SBCT), pulls guard, in front of a small shop, for a traffic control checkpoint (TCP), Mosul, Iraq. The 3-21 runs the TCP's to look for Anti-Iraqi Forces during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. The Soldier is armed with a Special Operation Peculiar Modification (SOPMOD) M4 rifle with M203 40 mm grenade launcher

US Army (USA) Private (PVT) Brian Curl, 2nd Platoon (PLT), Bravo (B) Company (CO), 1ST Battalion (BN), 5th Infantry (INF), 25th Infantry Division (ID) (Stryker Brigade Combat Team (SBCT)), trailed by an Iraqi child, conducts a dismounted patrol in an area near Mosul, Iraq. PVT Curl is armed with a Special Operation Peculiar Modification (SOPMOD) M4 rifle. The SBCT is assigned to Task Force Freedom supporting Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

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Base: Mosul

Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Scene Camera Operator: Tsgt Mike Buytas, USAF

Release Status: Released to Public

Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

Iraq War aka Operation IRAQI FREEDOM was the 2003 invasion of Iraq, led by U.S. Army General Tommy Franks, under the code-name "Operation Iraqi Freedom". 248,000 soldiers from the United States, 45,000 British soldiers, 2,000 Australian soldiers and 194 Polish soldiers from Special Forces unit GROM sent to Kuwait for the invasion. The invasion force was also supported by Iraqi Kurdish militia troops, estimated to number upwards of 70,000.

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US Army (USA) SPECIALIST Fourth Class (SPC) David Johnson (left), GUNNER, and Sergeant (SGT) Justin Javar (right), Assistant GUNNER, Headquarters and Headquarters Company (HHC), 1ST Battalion (BN), 17th Infantry Regiment (1/17th), 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team (SBCT), fire illumination flares from inside their Stryker Mortar Carrier Vehicle (MCV) 120 mm mortar cannon, during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM, in order to light-up the night sky over Mosul, Ninawa Province, Iraq (IRQ), in order to deny Iraqi insurgents the opportunity to place improvised explosive devices (IEDs) under the cover of darkness

Aerial port quarter view of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (CVN-69) tied up at one of the service piers at the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Corporation Shipyard. The IKE is in the late stages of an extensive overhaul and modification period and will return to the fleet in December

A US Navy (USN) Hospital Corpsman (HM) assigned to the US Marine Corps (USMC) 1ST Battalion (BN), 1ST Marine Regiment (Marines), Regimental Combat Team 5 (RCT-5), conducts a medical examination of a Iraqi child, during a civic actions program conducted with the Iraqi Army (IA) at a schoolhouse in Fallujah, Iraq (IRQ). RCT-5 is deployed with the USMC 1ST Marine Expeditionary Force (MEF) in support the Global War On Terrorism (GWOT) in the Al Anbar Province of Iraq

Photograph of Construction Progress Modification of Shrine in Exhibition Hall, Tight Quarters Door About Ready to Go over Top

A young male Iraqi child, attending the Al-Alkaa Primary School for Boys in Ad Diwaniyah, Iraq, shakes hands with US Marine Corps (USMC) Lieutenant Colonel (LTC) Ted A. Ruane, Commanding Officer (CO), 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), Special Operations Capable (SOC), Marine Corps Base (MCB) Camp Pendleton, CA, after receiving a backpack. The 11th MEU SOC Marines (augmented with US Army (USA) 451st Civil Affairs (CA) Battalion (BN) Soldiers) are in Ad Diwaniyah to distribute more than 1,500 backpacks to children in five different schools during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

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US Marine Corps (USMC) Major (MAJ) Robert Carr, Civil Affairs SPECIALIST, 15th Marines Expeditionary Unit (MEU), Special Operation Capable (SOC), photographs of an Iraqi family getting water from a damaged water treatment facility located at An Nasariyah, Iraq, during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

US Army (USA) Soldiers of Alpha Section, 2nd Brigade Reconnaissance Troop (BRT), search an abandoned house during a Quick Response Force (QRF) Search and Seizure mission. They are armed with KAC 5.56 mm Modular Weapon System (MWS) SOPMOD (Special Operation Peculiar Modification) M4s. The QRF responds to immediate action situations directed by the Tactical Operations Center (TOC) commander during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

The left hand of a local Iraqi child showing his damaged thumb. This child lives in Fallujah, Al Anbar Province, Iraq

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