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protect21.jpg : The end result of the work done by explosive ordnance disposal Marines attached to the California-based Battalion Landing Team 2/4, Feb. 22, 2007. EOD performs various functions for the battalion such disposal of improvised explosive devices, weapons and post blast analysis. U.S. Marine Corsp photo by Staff Sgt Tracie G. Kessler

protect22.jpg : A convoy of U.S. Army soldiers approaches an Iraqi checkpoint outside Samarra, Iraq, Feb. 27, 2007. U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Molly Dzitko

protect23.jpg : U.S. Army soldiers, assigned to the 402nd Civil Affairs Battalion, provide convoy security while fellow soldiers talk to locals in Samarra, Iraq, Feb. 28, 2007. U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Molly Dzitko

protect24.jpg : A U.S. Army soldier, assigned to the the 402nd Civil Affairs Battalion, provides security for his convoy in Samarra, Iraq, Feb. 28, 2007. U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Molly Dzitko

protect25.jpg : U.S. Army Pfc. Ashley Denson, a medic assigned to Charlie Company, 82nd Brigade Support Battalion, provides convoy security in Samarra, Iraq, Feb. 28, 2007. U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Molly Dzitko

protect26.jpg : U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Clayton Glover, assigned to the 529th Military Police Company, and his military working dog, Alf ,search for explosives at an Iraqi checkpoint outside Samarra, Iraq, Feb. 27, 2007. U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Molly Dzitko

protect27.jpg : U.S. Army soldiers, assigned to Alpha Company, 2nd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, take a break at an Iraqi checkpoint outside Samarra, Iraq, Feb. 27, 2007. U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Molly Dzitko

protect28.jpg : U.S. Army Sgt. Auralie Suarez and Pvt. Brett Mansink take cover in a ditch in Al Doura, Iraq, March 7, 2007. The soldiers are assigned to Charlie Company, 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division and were on a joint patrol in Al Rashid when their unit received small-arms fire. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Sean A. Foley

protect29.jpg : U.S. Army Pfc. Mark Stewart, far left, lays down cover fire as his squad prepares to maneuver down a street during a patrol in Al Doura, Iraq, March 7, 2007. Stewart is an infantryman assigned to Charlie Company, 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Sean A. Foley

protect30.jpg : U.S. Army Spc. Olanrewanju Akinwumni, right, a combat documentation specialist assigned to the 982nd Combat Camera (Airborne), captures video imagery of U.S. Army soldiers taking cover as they maneuver down a street to engage gunmen who fired on their convoy in Al Doura, Iraq, March 7, 2007. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Sean A. Foley

protect31.jpg : U.S. Army Sgt. Auralie Suarez and Pvt. Brett Mansink take cover in a ditch in Al Doura, Iraq, March 7, 2007. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Sean A. Foley

protect32.jpg : U.S. Army Sgt. Karl King and Pfc. David Valenzuela lay down cover fire while their squad maneuvers down a street from behind the cover of a Stryker combat vehicle to engage gunmen who fired on their convoy in Al Doura, Iraq, March 7, 2007. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Sean A. Foley

protect33.jpg : A U.S. Army soldier lays down cover fire while his squad maneuvers down a street to engage gunmen who fired on their convoy in Al Doura, Iraq, March 7, 2007. The soldiers are assigned to Charlie Company, 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division and were on a joint patrol in Al Rashid when his unit received small-arms fire. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Sean A. Foley

protect34.jpg : U.S. Marines from Alpha Company, 1st Tank Battalion, provide security in an M1A1 Abrams tank while Marines from Regimental Combat Team 2 search for weapons caches along a section of the west bank of the Euphrates River, March 9, 2007, north of Hit, Iraq. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Shane S. Keller

protect35.jpg : Soldiers with the 31st Combat Air Support Hospital walk to an awaiting airplane during their deployment Thursday, March, 15, 2007, in El Paso. The unit will train in Wisconsin before deploying to Iraq to provide medical care to U.S. detainees.

protect36.jpg : Members of the U.S. Army's 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division search a storeroom in an abandoned school in Baqouba, 60 kilometers (35 miles) northeast of Baghdad on Wednesday, March 14, 2007. The unit _ a Stryker battalion _ was sent from Baghdad to Diyala province this week to help quell increasing violence there

protect37.jpg : Spc. Jeremiah Westerfeld, left, 22, from Batesville, Indiana, and Sgt. William Rose , 26, from Arlington, Mass., stake out firing positions in an abandoned school in Baqouba on Wednesday, March 14, 2007. They are members of the US Army's 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, who faced fierce battles on their first day of patrols in Diyala province northeast of Baghdad, where they were sent to quell burgeoning violence on the "belts" of Baghdad

protect38.jpg & protect39.jpg : Soldiers from the 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, attached to the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, conduct their first mission in the Diyala province, engaging anti-Iraqi forces in Baqubah, Iraq, March 14. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Stacy L. Pearsall)