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US Army (USA) Private First Class (PFC) Brandon Standifer (seated) eats his dinner from a to-go plate as PFC James Roedl, both 4th Battalion (BN), 42nd Field Artillery Regiment (4/42nd FAR), 1ST Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, mans a FNMI 7.62 mm M240 machine gun as they serve the evening shift guard duty inside a concrete guard shack (also known as a killbox) at Forward Operating Base (FOB) Taji, near Taji, Baghdad Province, Iraq (IRQ), during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM
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The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: Fob Taji
State: Baghdad
Country: Iraq (IRQ)
Scene Camera Operator: PH1 (Aw) Michael Larson, Usn
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
19/03/2006
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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