Saturday, February 2, 2008

Operation Duraiya Sunrise

While patrolling through a village in Dura'iya, Iraq, U.S. Army Spc. Raquel Martinez, a combat medic with 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, keeps an eye out for enemy personnel during a joint clearing operation with Concerned Local Citizens members, Jan. 28.

U.S. Army Master Sgt. Heath Potteiger with 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, scans for enemy snipers while patrolling through a village during a joint clearing operation with Concerned Local Citizens members in Dura'iya, Iraq, Jan. 28.

As a group of local Iraqi men look on as U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Mathew Jemison with 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, takes a knee and keeps an eye out for enemy personnel while stopped during a joint clearing operation with Concerned Local Citizens members in Dura'iya, Iraq, Jan. 28.

U.S. Army Maj. John Cushing, right, and Command Sgt. Maj. Mark Moore, left, 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, keep an eye out for enemy personnel while taking a short break during a joint clearing operation with Concerned Local Citizens members in Dura'iya, Iraq, Jan. 28.

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Mathew Jemison, left, with 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, takes a knee and keeps an eye out for enemy personnel while stopped during a joint clearing operation with Concerned Local Citizens members in Dura'iya, Iraq, Jan. 28.

A swarn of Concerned Local Citizens members and U.S. Army Soldiers from Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, walk up a road while patrolling through a village looking for weapons caches and enemy personnel during a joint clearing operation in Dura'iya, Iraq, Jan. 28.

Two Concerned Local Citizens take a break during a long day of searching for weapons caches and enemy personnel with U.S. Army Soldiers from Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, during a joint operation in Dura'iya, Iraq, Jan. 28

U.S. Army Capt. William Clark, center, Alpha Company commander, 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, talks with local leaders and sheiks during a joint clearing operation with Concerned Local Citizens members in Dura'iya, Iraq, Jan. 28.

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