[Kathy in Alaska]

Sgt. Robert Gardner (left) and Lance Cpl. Jeromy Pilon, both with the Marines' India Company, ready an explosive that will be placed inside the captured Iraqi tank behind them. Marines also destroyed a new Mercedes truck containing high-tech communications gear, which they found parked under an overpass. (Sun photo by John Makely)

A Marine with India Company, 3rd Battalion, 5th Regiment, keeps his weapon trained on a truck in Iraq.(Sun photo by John Makely)

[Kathy in Alaska]

Members of India Company of the 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines watch from a distance as U.S. artillery rounds are fired at Iraqi bunkers. Marines captured the city of Numaniyah with little resistance. (Sun photo by John Makely)

U.S. Marines with India Company, 3rd Battalion, 5th Regiment, attack An Numniyah. (Sun photo by John Makely)