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OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM -- An F-117 from the 8th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron out of Holloman A.F.B., NM, followed by F-15s from Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, N.C., prepare to launch from a forward-deployed air base in the Middle East on April 14, 2003. The 8th EFS has begun returning to...

Army Pfc. Jonathan Dixon (foreground) provides perimeter security while Staff Sgt. Gabriel Monreal and his translator conduct an interview with a local Iraqi man during a routine patrol near Camp Taji, Iraq, on March 13, 2006. Dixon and Monreal are attached to Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 66th...

Iraqi army soldiers examine the underside of a Humvee as they learn high-mobility multi-wheeled vehicle maintenance during a class in Al Anbar, Iraq, on March 2, 2006. The Iraqi soldiers from Headquarters Company, 3rd Battalion, 2nd Brigade, are being taught the intricacies of the Humvee by U.S...

U.S. Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters lift off from Forward Operating Base Remagen, Iraq, for Operation Swarmer on March 16, 2006. Soldiers from the Iraqi Army's 1st Brigade, 4th Division and the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division's 3rd Brigade Combat Team are taking part in the combined air...

U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Ricky Bryant is last in line to board a C-130H2 Hercules aircraft at Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, for a flight to Forward Operations Base Salearno, Afghanistan, on March 8, 2006. The aircraft and crew are assigned to the 185th Airlift Squadron, Will Rogers World...

Two U.S. Army soldiers use binoculars and a riflescope to watch for insurgents downrange as they conduct a combat patrol near the Syrian border in Iraq on March 6, 2006. The soldiers are attached to Foxtrot Troop, 1st Armored Division. DoD photo by Staff Sgt. Aaron Allmon, U.S. Air Force.

U.S. Army and Iraqi soldiers look out the rear of a CH-47 Chinook helicopter as they are extracted after completing a mission to detain or eliminate insurgent activity southwest of Samarra, Iraq, on Feb. 27, 2006. U.S. Army soldiers from the 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment and Iraqi army...

Abandoned Iraqi artillery.

A British unit poses in front of the Union Jack. Note the captured Iraqi weapons being handled.

An Iraqi cyclist examines a British Challenger 2 Main Battle Tank in Basra.