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Pfc. Nicholas Raab, right, from Charles City, Iowa, fills water jugs Friday while Pfc. Zach Lycette, from Medford, Ore., holds the water hose from the Reverse Osmosis Water Purification Unit at Qayyarah West Airfield, Iraq. Both soldiers are with 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment. Rob Curtis / Military Times Staff
Pfc. David Eldridge, from Kalamazoo, Mich., with the 426th Forward Support Battalion, replaces a Humvee motor Friday at Qayyarah West Airfield. Rob Curtis / Military Times Staff
Sgt. Tim Kocher, left, from Daytona Beach, Fla., and Pfc. Andre Beaudet, from Eugene, Ore., both from Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), search through a haystack Wednesday as units perform a cordon and search operation in Alibah, Iraq. Rob Curtis / Military Times staff
Sgt. Adam Jensen, from Ft. Wayne, Ind., with Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), gives an Iraqi child medicine for a fever Wednesday in Alibah. Medical and civil affairs teams are present to soothe nerves after soldiers conduct weapons searches in villages. Rob Curtis / Military Times staff
Sgt. Adam Jensen, from Ft. Wayne, Ind., with Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), examines a shell found during a search operation in Alibah. Rob Curtis / Military Times staff
Units from 2-327th search Alibah on Wednesday. Rob Curtis / Military Times staff
Spc. Jason Schultz, right, from Belvidere, Ill., and Sgt. Mike Theberge, from Springfield, Mass., with 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), 1st Battalion, 66th Armor Regiment, 4th Infantry Division, patrol the Iraq-Turkey oil pipeline that runs underground between Baghdad and Turkey on Tuesday. Rob Curtis / Military Times staff
Sgt. Kevin Swain, from East Prairie, Mo., with the 50th Medical Company (Air Ambulance) washes dirt from a UH60 Black Hawk after an overnight sandstorm at Qayyarah Airfield on Friday. Dirt covering the aircraft could weigh as much as 300 pounds and have an effect on the distance the helicopter can fly. Rob Curtis / Military Times staff
Team leader Sgt. William Neal, from Belmont, N.H., watches the pipelines beneath him as a squad from Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment heads out from Qayyarah West Airfield in a UH60 Black Hawk for pipeline aerial patrol Tuesday. Rob Curtis / Military Times staff
US soldier Josh Latham from Benson, North Carolina, 101st Airborne Division's third battalion, rides in a military vehicle close to his barracks, some 20 kms from the Iraqi-Syrian border, close to the village of Haktien in northwest Iraq. AFP/Ahmad Al-Rubaye
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