1st Lt. James "Mike" Gorman, a platoon leader with the 2nd Battalion, 320th Field Artillery Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), checks out a young boy's arm after he had bruised it playing soccer with his schoolmates in Ad Dujayl, Iraq. The artillerymen from the 2-320th FAR have been conducting "Operation Balls DiMaggio" since June 18; the operation is a full-spectrum combat operation aimed at interdicting weapons trafficking, capturing munitions financiers, limiting indirect-fire attacks, and other insurgent activity, in vicinity of the Joint Base Balad Anaconda. During the course of the operation, the "Balls of the Eagle" Battalion has been conducting 24-hour combat patrols in an effort to provide a long lasting effect on an ever improving security situation in the area.
Date Taken: | 06.23.2008 |
Date Posted: | 06.23.2008 16:53 |
Photo ID: | 96306 |
VIRIN: | 080623-A-0000S-001 |
Resolution: | 3061x2240 |
Size: | 728.48 KB |
Location: | AD DUJAYL, IQ |
Web Views: | 294 |
Downloads: | 34 |
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