U.S. Army soldiers from the A Company 3rd Battalion 7th Infantry Regiment, cover up during an intense sandstorm which slowed U.S. military progress, near Karbala, Iraq Tuesday, March 25, 2003. Thousands of U.S. Marines were rumbling north toward Baghdad on Tuesday, taking safer dirt roads to avoid cities and towns where they could face Iraqi resistance. (AP Photo/John Moore)
Photo by Jud McCrehin, Times Staff
Navy corpsmen and Marines with battery M and headquarters battery, 3rd Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment work on a lance corporal who was shot in the shoulder during a patrol mission Wednesday.