FOOD DISTRIBUTION — Working with Red Crescent volunteers, a U.S. Army sergeant watches over a crowd of women at the entrance to a food distribution site in Baqubah, Iraq. U.S. soldiers are working with the Iraqi and Saudi Red Crescent charitable organizations to distribute emergency food rations to 800 of the neediest families in Baqubah, as selected by leaders of the local Islamic mosques. A system of rationing was used with cards distributed by the mosque. U.S. soldiers are providing security and crowd control for the Red Crescent workers as they distributed much needed food. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Michael Barranti
LAUNDRY DAY — Army soldiers deployed to Baghdad International Airport hang their laundry on a taxiway in front of the terminal. The airport is a primary base of operations for U.S. troops, cargo and humanitarian airlift in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Matthew Hannen
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