(03/23/03 As Samawah, Iraq) Troops from the U.S. Army's 3rd Squadron, 7th Cavalry Regiment watch as a target inside the village of As Samawah,Iraq goes up in flames. The Cavalry is in the process of taking the village and is receiving some resistence from fighters inside. Photo by Warren Zinn/Army Times
Staff Sgt. Todd Morton, 27, from Cohoes, NY, looks through documents and maps found after 2nd platoon, bravo company, 3rd Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 101st Airborne Divison (Air Assault) occupied a hastily abandoned residence during the Brigade's southern movement toward the city of An Najaf, Wednesday, 4/2/03. The infantry company searched several buildings turning up uniforms, communication equipment and gas masks, vehicles , dozens of small and large caliber weapons, RPGs, US style uniforms and other personal items, as well as uncovering at least two BM21, a Russian made Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS).
04/03/03 Photo by Jud McCrehin/Marine Corps Times Marines from battery M, 3rd Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment fire a 155mm Howitzer towards Iraqi military positions in Al Kut, Iraq Thursday afternoon.
Soldiers from the 2nd Brigade, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), and the 1st Battalion, 41st Infantry Regiment, 1st Armored Division, wait to be presented Purple Hearts by Lt. General Willam Wallace as the US Army Fifth Corps commander tours the Strike brigade's area of operation in southern Baghdad, 4/18/03, 3pm. There were 26 Purple Hearts presented to those present.
Maj. Gen. David Petraeus, right, commanding general of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), talks to his assistant division commander (operations), Brig. Gen. Frank Helmick, as they go over the next day's plans in the division tactical operations center (TOC), 1/29/04.
Marine Staff Sgt. Bradley Nerad, 31, of Racine, WI and Platoon Sergeant of 2nd Platoon, Alpha Company of 1st Battalion/5th Marine Regiment, uncovers a weapons cache April 15, 2004 in Fallujah, Iraq. Alpha Company uncovered three weapons caches within the city today. (M. Scott Mahaskey/ Marine Corps Times)
NPY Mosul - Although wounded, Staff Sgt. Shannon Kay, of 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, fires on an enemy position after being attacked with a car bomb, December 11, 2004, in Mosul, Iraq.
A U.S. Marine cries during the memorial service for 31 killed U.S. servicemen at Camp Korean Village, near Ar Rutbah, western Iraq, Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2005. Thirty Marines and one sailor died on Jan. 26, 2005 when their helicopter crashed near Rutbah while conducting security operations. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)
Photographs made December 7, 2006, of the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Office (DRMO) yard, which houses all scrap metal and battle damaged and wrecked vehicles for western Iraq. (M. Scott Mahaskey/ Army Times Publishing Co.)
U.S. soldier of 3rd Brigade searches a house during the operation Marne Courageous, in the town of Owesap, 20 kilometers (about 12.4 miles) south of Baghdad, Monday Nov. 19, 2007. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek )
A U.S. army soldier from Ghostrider Company, 3rd Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment runs for cover during Operation Phantom Phoenix in the village of Abu Musa on the northern outskirts of Muqdadiyah, in the volatile Diyala province, about 90 kilometers (60 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Jan. 10, 2008. Facing another decision about U.S. troop levels in Iraq by spring, U.S. President Bush said Saturday Jan. 12, 2008 it's "fine with me" if generals recommend no more reductions than those already planned to take the force posture down to about 130,000. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic)
A soldier makes his way back to his Stryker armored vehicle as B Co. 4th Battalion 9th Infantry Regiment makes its way to an objective in the desert west of Baji, Iraq, Monday, 2/6/2008.
Lance Cpl. Michael Aguirre provides security while an Afghan National Army soldiers search men during patrol May 12, 2010 in Marjah Afghanistan. Thomas Brown/Staff
FILE - In this May 8, 2010 file photo, a tattoo on the back of U.S. Army Sgt. James Wilkes of Rochester, N.Y., is seen through his torn shirt after a foot patrol with 1st Platoon, Charlie Company, 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry Regiment, of the 5th Styker Brigade, in Afghanistan's Kandahar province. The full tattoo reads, "Sacrifice. Without fear there is no courage." .U.S. military deaths in Afghanistan have surpassed 2,000, a grim reminder that a war which began nearly 11 years ago shows no signs of slowing down despite an American decision to begin the withdrawal of most of its combat forces. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, File)
Lance Cpl. Dominque Draper, 3rd Battalion 6th Marines takes a breather seconds after his MATV was hit by a IED while traveling through in Marjah, Afghanistan May 15, 2010. Draper suffered a mild concussion from the blast. No other Marines were injured during the attack. Thomas Brown/Staff
Crew Chief Sgt. Chad Orozco, with "Shadow Dustoff" C/6-101st Avn Rgt, helps load a young Afghan boy wounded by an RPG near FOB Nolen in the Arghandab valley, Kandahar, Afghanistan, September 18, 2010.
Soldiers from C company, 1st Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment and Afghan National Army soldiers from the 1-2 Kandak respond to the aftermath of an Improvised Explosive Device on an Afghan National Army Humvee on April 21, 2011 outside of Babo Khel, Afghanistan. Two ANA soldiers sustained concussions and other injuries from the blast but are expected to be okay.
In this Saturday, June 4, 2011 photo, injured United States Marine Cpl. Burness Britt reacts after being lifted onto a medevac helicopter from the U.S. Army's Task Force Lift "Dust Off," Charlie Company 1-214 Aviation Regiment. Britt was wounded in an IED strike near Sangin, in the Helmand Province of southern Afghanistan. At the Hunter Holmes Medical Center in Richmond, Va., Britt is facing a long recovery after a large piece of shrapnel cut a major artery on his neck. During his first operation in Afghanistan he suffered a stroke and became partially paralyzed. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus) PART OF A 14-PICTURE PACKAGE BY ANJA NIEDRINGHAUS; ITALY OUT
U.S. Army Staff Sgt. James Bates, with Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Farah, pulls security during a mission to the director of information and culture's office in Farah City, Farah province, Afghanistan, Sept. 25, 2012. (DoD photo by Staff Sgt. Jonathan Lovelady, U.S. Air Force/Released)
U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Robert Fraser, a personal security detail team member with the International Security Assistance Force Regional Command Southwest (RC-SW), provides security as an MV-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft carrying Maj. Gen. Walter L. Miller Jr., the commanding general of RC-SW, lands at Camp Leatherneck, Helmand province, Afghanistan, April 17, 2013. Miller and other key command personnel were returning from a visit to Forward Operating Base Sabit Qadam in Helmand province. (DoD photo by Sgt. Tammy K. Hineline, U.S. Marine Corps/Released)
An Afghan girl, right, watches as a U.S. Marine, left, gives her sister cough suppressant in Herat province, Afghanistan, Feb. 14, 2013. Coalition forces held a bi-weekly clinic for women and children in area villages to receive treatment and standard hygiene products. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Pete Thibodeau/Released)
Two U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle aircraft fly over northern Iraq Sept. 23, 2014, after conducting airstrikes in Syria. The aircraft were part of a large coalition strike package that was the first to strike Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) targets in Syria. President Barack Obama authorized humanitarian aid deliveries to Iraq as well as targeted airstrikes to protect U.S. personnel from extremists known as ISIL. U.S. Central Command directed the operations. (DoD photo by Senior Airman Matthew Bruch, U.S. Air Force/Released)
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