Cpl. Earen B. Dunham, combat engineer with 2nd Combat

Cpl. Earen B. Dunham, combat engineer with 2nd Combat Engineer Battalion, 1st Battalion, 9th Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 1, scans the area with a metal detector in search of a possible weapons cache, May 8, 2008. "We did a lot of joint operations with the police ranging from a midnight cordon and knock to census operations, which is where we interact with the locals to gather information," said 1st Lt. Jacob Womble, a 25-year-old from Tulsa, Okla., and the 3rd Platoon Commander for Company C.