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While many across the globe celebrated the first day of the New Year with traditional family and friend gatherings, the engineers of MEU Service Support Group 22 had a different way to start 2006; improving the roadways of Hit, Iraq.
“It can be a long, sometimes nasty job, pumping water out of the holes and not knowing what’s in it, but it’s worth it,” said Logan, W.V. native Lance Cpl. Claude Baisden, an engineer with over 2 years experience in the Marine Corps.

“The work we do not only helps with our military operations, making roads more accessible and giving terrorists less places to hide IEDs [improvised explosive devices], but it shows the local townspeople we’re here to help, which will hopefully make them more receptive to us,” said Baisden.