A US marine watches through a hole in the wall as insurgents run through the streets in Fallujah. Two US marines were killed in Fallujah, where and US and Iraqi troops are wrapping up their largest post-war military operation.
The Marines have instituted a "get back to basics" program, and so all Marines are now required to re-zero their weapons starting at the 1 meter range.
U.S. Specialist Chantha Bun (L) and Sergeant Anthony Davis, both Bravo Company snipers from the 25th Infantry Division (Stryker Brigade Combat Team), scan for enemy activity on a roof-top of an Iraqi Police station in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.
Hey Sarge, have you ever seen a Missouri boat ride?
U.S. Lance Cpl. Corey Bloss (R), and Cpl. Shaun Atwell, both with the Chemical Biological Incident Response Force (CBIRF), load suspected chemicals into barrels after they were discovered in a building in the western Iraqi war-torn city of Falluja by Marines with the 1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment of the 1st Marine Division, November 23, 2004.
KP is now considered to be hazardous duty whenever Cookie decides to prepare 5-Alarm Chile using the exotic Iraqi strain of cayenne peppers in the sauce.
Pfc Christopher Hilton, front, second from left, takes a knee as he gets instructions form Staff Sgt. Richard McKenna, far right, wearing backpack, during a urban assault training class Thursday, Nov. 18, 2004, at Fort Jackson, S.C.
Hilton takes the knee, and the team went on to win the game by a field goal.
Spc. David Miller, lower left, gets instruction on how to hold his gun by Capt. Kelly Dickerson during an urban assault training class Thursday, Nov. 18, 2004, at Fort Jackson, S.C. Looking on is Staff Sgt. Charles Collard, top of photo.
Hey, Associated Press caption writer, it is not a gun for the Nth time.
Some 300 people demonstrate in the streets of Bauge holding banners reading 'We do not forget you' in support of French journalists Christian Chesnot and Georges Malbrunot who mark today their 100 day in the hands of hostage-takers in Iraq.
Mais les Français semblent certainement avoir oublie qui leurs amis sont dans le monde.
But the French certainly seem to have forgotten who their friends are in the world.
That is French for saying you French folks are a bunch of finks to your friends when the going gets tough.
US soldiers search a house during a raid in the restive city of Ramadi, 100 kms west of Baghdad.
When house hunting in Iraq, it is advisable to have full inspection done before signing a purchase and sales agreement.
An Iraqi woman sits behind a US soldier during house-to-house searches in the restive city of Ramadi, 100 kms west of Baghdad.
OH no, not this sheite again!
US marines Cpl Justin Dawson of Aberdeen, Maryland, takes stock of weapons confiscated from insurgents and found in caches at forward base Camp Kalsu near Iskandariya, south of Baghdad.
Some might say that the weapons would be more efficient if the stocks were simply left alone.
A US marine adjusts his helmet manning his machinegun as the sun sets in the haze of a sandstorm at the forward base 'Kalsu' near Iskandariya.
Look Ma, no hands!
The door gunner on a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter surveys the Iraqi countryside during a flight from Mosul to Baghdad November 27, 2004.
What can really be said concerning the lush and glorious Iraqi countryside that has been such a lure for terrorists and despotic regimes for centuries?
A door gunner on a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter looks down on Baghdad during a flight from Mosul November 27, 2004.
I am not even near Baghdad, and I look down on the place.