US Air Force (USAF) SENIOR AIRMAN (SRA) Byron Harper, 332nd Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron (ECES), uses a John Deere 570 motor grader to smooth out the gravel on a parking lot on Tallil Air Base (AB), Iraq during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. The 332nd ECES is installing a French drain system to help alleviate the flooding in tent-city during the upcoming rainy season

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.