Under a rising moon US Army (USA) SPECIALIST Fourth Class (SPC) Berneil Mills, 940th Military Police (MP) Unit, Kentucky Army National Guard (KYARNG), Walton, Kentucky (KY), maintain watch near the south fence line of Forward Operation Base (FOB) Hotel near Najaf, Iraq, during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. SPC Mills is armed with a M4A1 Special Operations Peculiar Modification (SOPMOD) weapon

Hey diddle diddle, The cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon; The little dog laughed to see such sport, And the dish ran away with the spoon. /A nursery rhyme from the 1700's /

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.