
Ramadi, Iraq (April 28, 2006) - U.S. Marines take a low position and formulate a battle strategy to flush insurgents from their fighting positions during a rooftop gun battle in Ramadi, Iraq. The Marines are attached to 2nd Battalion, 28th Brigade Combat Team, deployed with I Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward). U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 2nd Class Samuel Peterson (RELEASED)

Marines walk onto a C-17 Globemaster III en route to Afghanistan April 2, 2010 at the Transit Center at Manas, Kyrgyzstan. Thousands of Marines, Soldiers, Airmen and coalition troops transit through here each month in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. In March, 376th Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron Airmen pushed through 50,000 multinational, U.S. and coalition troops. The Marines are from the 7th Engineer Support Battalion, Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Nichelle Anderson)
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Marines with Company E, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, conduct a controlled detonation on the Herati wall, Aug. 15. Insurgents have used the compound for cover and concealment during several firefights with Marines over the past month.
(Photo by 1st Lt. Kurt Stahl : Regimental Combat Team 3)
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Marines with Company E, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, work together to knock down the Herati wall, Aug. 15. Insurgents have used the compound for cover and concealment during several firefights with Marines over the past month.
(Photo by 1st Lt. Kurt Stahl : Regimental Combat Team 3)
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Marines with Company E, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, work together to knock down the Herati wall, Aug. 15. Insurgents have used the compound for cover and concealment during several firefights with Marines over the past month.
(Photo by 1st Lt. Kurt Stahl : Regimental Combat Team 3)
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Marines with Company E, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, work together to knock down the Herati wall, Aug. 15. Insurgents have used the compound for cover and concealment during several firefights with Marines over the past month.
(Photo by 1st Lt. Kurt Stahl : Regimental Combat Team 3)
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Cpl. A.J. Manglona, a machine gunner with Company E, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, fires his M240G medium machine gun at Taliban insurgents after drawing fire, Aug. 15.
(Photo by 1st Lt. Kurt Stahl : Regimental Combat Team 3)
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Cpl. A.J. Manglona, a machine gunner with Company E, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, fires his M240G medium machine gun at Taliban insurgents after drawing fire, Aug. 15.
(Photo by 1st Lt. Kurt Stahl : Regimental Combat Team 3)
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Second Lt. Pat Bragan, 3rd platoon commander with Company E, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, and his Marines prepare to attack Taliban insurgents after drawing fire, Aug. 15. Bragan is from Abington, Mass.
(Photo by 1st Lt. Kurt Stahl : Regimental Combat Team 3)
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"We look out for anything suspicious or out of the ordinary...if there is something suspicious, we call it up to the sergeant of the guard," said Spc. Robert Pingree, an infantryman from Denmark, Maine, assigned to Company D, 1st Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, as he mans a guard tower at Joint Security Station Cleary, in southeastern Baghdad, Aug. 17.
(Photo by Staff Sgt. Mark Burrell : Multi-National Division Baghdad)
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"We just talk a lot up here. There's not a whole lot you can do to pass the time," said Denmark, Maine, native, Spc. Robert Pingree, an infantryman assigned to Company D, 1st Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, while standing guard in a tower on Joint Security Station Cleary, Aug. 17. Pingree, who's been in the Army for about two years, added, "I joined because I wanted to go to war for my country."
(Photo by Staff Sgt. Mark Burrell : Multi-National Division Baghdad)
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Spc. Joshua MacQuarrie, an infantryman from Copperas Cove, Texas, assigned to Company D, 1st Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, stares out at the horizon as the sun sets during guard tower duty at Joint Security Station Cleary, Aug. 17. MacQuarrie, who's been in the Army almost two and a half years, is on his first deployment to Iraq.
(Photo by Staff Sgt. Mark Burrell : Multi-National Division Baghdad)
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The suns sets on another day in southeastern Baghdad as Spc. Joshua MacQuarrie, an infantryman from Copperas Cove, Texas, assigned to Company D, 1st Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, scans the horizon for enemy activity from a guard tower at Joint Security Station Cleary, Aug. 17.
(Photo by Staff Sgt. Mark Burrell : Multi-National Division Baghdad)
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"I'm infantry and a little bit of everything - guard tower or whatever needs to be done," said Spc. Joshua MacQuarrie, a Copperas Cove, Texas, native and infantryman assigned to Company D, 1st Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, as he looks through the sights of his M240 machine gun during guard duties at Joint Security Station Cleary, in southeastern Baghdad, Aug. 17.
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Marines with Company E, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, conduct a controlled detonation on the Herati wall, Aug. 15. Insurgents have used the compound for cover and concealment during several firefights with Marines over the past month.
(Photo by 1st Lt. Kurt Stahl : Regimental Combat Team 3)


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Marines with Company E, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, work together to knock down the Herati wall, Aug. 15. Insurgents have used the compound for cover and concealment during several firefights with Marines over the past month.
(Photo by 1st Lt. Kurt Stahl : Regimental Combat Team 3)


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Marines with Company E, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, work together to knock down the Herati wall, Aug. 15. Insurgents have used the compound for cover and concealment during several firefights with Marines over the past month.
(Photo by 1st Lt. Kurt Stahl : Regimental Combat Team 3)


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Marines with Company E, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, work together to knock down the Herati wall, Aug. 15. Insurgents have used the compound for cover and concealment during several firefights with Marines over the past month.
(Photo by 1st Lt. Kurt Stahl : Regimental Combat Team 3)


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Cpl. A.J. Manglona, a machine gunner with Company E, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, fires his M240G medium machine gun at Taliban insurgents after drawing fire, Aug. 15.
(Photo by 1st Lt. Kurt Stahl : Regimental Combat Team 3)


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Cpl. A.J. Manglona, a machine gunner with Company E, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, fires his M240G medium machine gun at Taliban insurgents after drawing fire, Aug. 15.
(Photo by 1st Lt. Kurt Stahl : Regimental Combat Team 3)


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Second Lt. Pat Bragan, 3rd platoon commander with Company E, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, and his Marines prepare to attack Taliban insurgents after drawing fire, Aug. 15. Bragan is from Abington, Mass.
(Photo by 1st Lt. Kurt Stahl : Regimental Combat Team 3)


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"We look out for anything suspicious or out of the ordinary...if there is something suspicious, we call it up to the sergeant of the guard," said Spc. Robert Pingree, an infantryman from Denmark, Maine, assigned to Company D, 1st Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, as he mans a guard tower at Joint Security Station Cleary, in southeastern Baghdad, Aug. 17.
(Photo by Staff Sgt. Mark Burrell : Multi-National Division Baghdad)


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"We just talk a lot up here. There's not a whole lot you can do to pass the time," said Denmark, Maine, native, Spc. Robert Pingree, an infantryman assigned to Company D, 1st Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, while standing guard in a tower on Joint Security Station Cleary, Aug. 17. Pingree, who's been in the Army for about two years, added, "I joined because I wanted to go to war for my country."
(Photo by Staff Sgt. Mark Burrell : Multi-National Division Baghdad)


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Spc. Joshua MacQuarrie, an infantryman from Copperas Cove, Texas, assigned to Company D, 1st Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, stares out at the horizon as the sun sets during guard tower duty at Joint Security Station Cleary, Aug. 17. MacQuarrie, who's been in the Army almost two and a half years, is on his first deployment to Iraq.
(Photo by Staff Sgt. Mark Burrell : Multi-National Division Baghdad)


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The suns sets on another day in southeastern Baghdad as Spc. Joshua MacQuarrie, an infantryman from Copperas Cove, Texas, assigned to Company D, 1st Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, scans the horizon for enemy activity from a guard tower at Joint Security Station Cleary, Aug. 17.
(Photo by Staff Sgt. Mark Burrell : Multi-National Division Baghdad)


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"I'm infantry and a little bit of everything - guard tower or whatever needs to be done," said Spc. Joshua MacQuarrie, a Copperas Cove, Texas, native and infantryman assigned to Company D, 1st Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, as he looks through the sights of his M240 machine gun during guard duties at Joint Security Station Cleary, in southeastern Baghdad, Aug. 17.
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U.S. soldiers from 2nd Platoon, Alpha Company, 32nd Infantry Regiment sit in Chinook CH-47F transport helicopter on their way to a new location in Bargematal, Nuristan, early August 22, 2009.
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U.S. soldiers from 2nd Platoon, Alpha Company, 32nd Infantry Regiment wait to board a Chinook CH-47F transport helicopter at military base "Joyce" on their way to a new location in Bargematal, Nuristan,late August 21, 2009.
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U.S. soldiers from 2nd Platoon, Alpha Company, 32nd Infantry Regiment fire their weapons during a gun battle against attacking Taliban forces from their position over the village of Bargematal, Nuristan, August 22, 2009.
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U.S. soldiers from 2nd Platoon, Alpha Company, 32nd Infantry Regiment sit in Chinook CH-47F transport helicopter on their way to a new location in Bargematal, Nuristan, early August 22, 2009.


U.S. soldiers from 2nd Platoon, Alpha Company, 32nd Infantry Regiment wait to board a Chinook CH-47F transport helicopter at military base "Joyce" on their way to a new location in Bargematal, Nuristan,late August 21, 2009.




U.S. soldiers from 2nd Platoon, Alpha Company, 32nd Infantry Regiment fire their weapons during a gun battle against attacking Taliban forces from their position over the village of Bargematal, Nuristan, August 22, 2009.
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