US Army (USA) SPECIALIST Fourth Class (SPC) Rueen Mariano, Bravo Company (B Co), 2nd Platoon (PLT), 1ST Battalion (BN), 187th Infantry Regiment (1/187th), 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), takes up a security position in the brush while on patrol along the Tigris River in Bayji, Salah Ad Din Province, Iraq (IRQ), during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: Bayji
State: Salah Ad Din
Country: Iraq (IRQ)
Scene Camera Operator: SPC Charles Gill, USA
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
Iraq War aka Operation IRAQI FREEDOM was the 2003 invasion of Iraq, led by U.S. Army General Tommy Franks, under the code-name "Operation Iraqi Freedom". 248,000 soldiers from the United States, 45,000 British soldiers, 2,000 Australian soldiers and 194 Polish soldiers from Special Forces unit GROM sent to Kuwait for the invasion. The invasion force was also supported by Iraqi Kurdish militia troops, estimated to number upwards of 70,000.
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Date
04/04/2006
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