Operation Steel Curtain [Image 3 of 4]

HUSAYBAH, IRAQ

11.05.2005

Photo by Cpl. Neill Sevelius 

II Marine Expeditionary Force   

HUSAYBAH, Iraq- A tank and vehicles with 3rd Battalion, 6th Marines stand security while Marines and Iraqi Army soldiers clear houses during Operation Steel Curtain. The combined force, 1,000 Iraqi Army soldiers including local Sunni soldiers recruited from the Al Qa'im region and 2,500 Marines, Soldiers and Sailors are clearing the city, house by house, discovering weapons caches, insurgent propaganda and improvised bombs. The arms, munitions, bomb-making material, artillery and mortar shells converted to homemade bombs found in these cache sites continue to validate suspicions that insurgents used Al Qa'im as a safe haven. (Official U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Neill A. Sevelius, 2d Marine Division Combat Camera)

• Date Taken: 11.05.2005
• Date Posted: 11.10.2005 16:33
• Photo ID: 12229
• Resolution: 2100x1400
• Size: 1.06 MB
• Location: HUSAYBAH, IQ