Rough Day at Rushdi Mullah:
A drawing I did at the time a Soldier was killed at Patrol Base Rushdi Mullah.

Rough Day at Rushdi Mullah

Soldiers of the 2nd Battalion, 15th Field Artillery Regiment treat citizens of mostly-Sunni village Al-Rakub and mostly-Shia Al-Jazir near Mahmudiyah, Iraq.

Soldiers of the 2nd Battalion, 14th Infantry Regiment mourn a fallen comrade at a memorial ceremony at Patrol Base Warrior Keep, Iraq, Jan. 1.

Lt. Col. Neil Ahle worms animals with the help of the shepherd and soldiers from 4th Battalion, 31st Inf. Regiment in the village of Al-Taraq, Iraq.

a drawing done for http://madlori.livejournal.com Lori.

Women shop at a rotissimat in Mahmudiyah.

A father and son in Sadr al-Yusufiyah.

A family rides in a truck outside Sadr al-Yusufiyah.


Soldiers mourn the loss of a friend on Camp Striker.

A man sits outside a shop in downtown Mahmudiyah.
An Iraqi woman holds her child in the door of their al-Furat home while U.S. soldiers talk with her family.


Soldiers hand out colored pencils, markers, and other school supplies at the Ali as-Salam school.


An Iraqi man in the village of Rushdi Mullah.

A Soldier guards a pile of explosives found in a cache as explosive ordnance disposal prepares to destroy the IEDs.


A man herds sheep and goats through the village of al-Furat, southwest of Baghdad.


A terrorist safe house that contained mortar rounds rigged with detonation cord blows up after explosive ordnance disposal technicians prepared the rounds to detonate safely.

Fourth Bn., 6th Iraqi Army Regiment takes over at a transfer-of-authority in Mahmudiyah, Iraq.
A Soldier walks in the soft sand near the Sadr al-Yusufiyah water treatment facility.



The shadow of Pfc. Jonathan Williams kneels in honor of his friend, Spc. Thomas Hewett, at a memorial. Hewett was killed by an IED in October.
An Iraqi washes at a water pumping station outside Sadr al-Yusufiyah.

Left: Medics treat a boy at a free clinic held at Rushdi Mullah, Iraq. Above, women bring their children to be treated at the clinic. Several medics and two doctors treated basic problems and assessed the villages' needs for later clinics.
Below left: A snapshot of the village of Sadr al-Yusufiyah, a small town in our area of operations. The look is typical of most of our area.

This is a medic treating a little girl as her mother looks on. Shot at a free clinic we held in Rushdi Mullah, Iraq, in late October.