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A U.S. Marine checks seized weapons on the roof-top of a school in the war-torn western city of Falluja, November 22, 2004. U.S. Marines were conducting painstaking weapons searches in Falluja on Monday when they spotted a man with an AK-47 rifle on a nearby rooftop. Armed only with a light weapon, he could never stand up to what they were about to unleash. But he was enough to distract Marines from a task that is key to stabilizing Falluja after a U.S.-led offensive crushed rebels controlling the Sunni Muslim city.
Fallujah is the only city in Iraq where the public schools each have their very own Armory.
US President George W. Bush waves as he is greeted by Chilean President Ricardo Lagos, 21 November 2004.
The President was happy to demonstrate his White House death grip which he had to almost use during a recent altercation between USSS and Chilean Security operatives.
U.S. Marines watch a street from a roof-top of a building in the war-torn western city of Falluja, November 22, 2004.
Some of the exhibits in the Fallujah Zoo held some very exotic critters which most Americans have not been witness to in the past.
An Iraqi Army soldier takes a taste of snuff from a soldier with the U.S. Army's Stryker Brigade at a military base in Mosul, November 22, 2004.
Snuff said!
U.S. Marines sit behind school desks at a primary school in the war-torn western city of Falluja, November 21, 2004. U.S. forces have found nearly 20 houses in the Iraqi city of Falluja where they believe people were tortured and where foreign hostages may have been killed, officers said late on Sunday. On Monday, a CNN correspondent attached to one unit in central Falluja said those troops believed they may have found the wire cage where British hostage Kenneth Bigley was shown on video pleading for his life.
Public School Administrators in Fallujah are considering changing the academic schedule so that in the future recess periods (which are generally raucous affairs) will come after the lunch period.
A student from St Andrews University take part in a foam fight as part of the traditional Raisin Monday celebrations in Scotland, November 22, 2004. The tradition dates back to the early days of the university where new students would give senior students a pound of raisins in gratitude for their help in adapting to university life, in exchange for a receipt written in Latin. Failure to produce such a receipt could result in a dousing in the local fountain. Nowadays the raisins have been replaced with a bottle of wine and the dousing with foam.
TomKow6, the water for your bath has been drawn, and it is time.
Staff Sgt. Daniel Cusinato, of Simi Valley, Calif., takes a breather during combat on Saturday to shave. He is with Regimental Combat Team 1, 9th Engineer Support Battalion, attached to the Combat Service Support Battalion, and is primarily engaged in explosive disposal. He works with Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment in Fallujah, Iraq.
Heroes in mirror are larger than they appear.
Marines with Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, hold strict security as they make their way down a street in Fallujah, Iraq, on Saturday.
I see that the Marines have been given the key to the city in this candid image.
Cpl. Timothy M. Buquoi, from Dallas, keeps an eye out for a sniper during house-to-house searches conducted by Marines of Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, in Fallujah, Iraq, on Friday.
Marines from Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, storm a house in Fallujah, Iraq, on Friday during house-to-house searches as operations to attempt to root out insurgents from the city continue.
Hi, we are with the local Welcome Wagon Branch, and we just wanted to drop by and say "surrender."
Marines from Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, search a room in Fallujah, Iraq, for intelligence.
Lets go men, there is no intelligent life in this Fallujahn flop house.
Sgt. Jacob Hall, a member of the 1st Infantry Division’s 3rd Brigade Combat Team, Task Force 22 Infantry Mortars, based out of Newport, Tenn., takes a well-deserved swig of real beer on Sunday at a gathering celebrating the handover from the Army to the Marine Corps of the Army-controlled section of Fallujah, Iraq.
The rules concerning "Formations" certainly have changed in the New Army.
Soldiers work Sunday to remove the remains of the city gate of Mosul, Iraq, after insurgents destroyed the highway landmark on Friday. According to military officials on the scene, insurgents were apparently attempting to block a main military supply route into the city.
The Sadaam Hussein Presidential Library has had a few structural problems which have become evident in recent days.
A U.S. soldier and a soldier of the Iraqi army patrol together on the outskirts of Mosul, Iraq, on Saturday. The soldiers were checking for insurgent activity.
Is that Iraqi Troop wearing a French manicure?
Staff Sgt. Robert Ellerbe, a member of the 1st Battalion, 252nd Armor, directs the loading of supplies in Jalula, Iraq, on Saturday.
Capt. Mike Quinto gets homecoming hugs from his sons Ethan, 8, left, and Nicholas, 5. Quinto, along with four other Marine Corps Harrier pilots, returned to Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, N.C., on Saturday after six months in Iraq with other members of VMA-542.
Lt. Col. Don Sterling is greeted by his wife, Heather, and two-month old son, Chase, after returning to Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, N.C., on Saturday after a six-month deployment to Iraq with VMA-542. It was the first time Sterling was able to hold his son, who was born while he was overseas.
Shot Happens!
Just another day at the office for our Troops!
