"It also shows security is improving; if that wasn't the case, you sure couldn't go out and buy watermelon," said Staff Sgt. Omar Jackon (left), an infantry section leader from Newark, N.J., as he holds a watermelon and Staff Sgt. Stephen Graham, a platoon sergeants from Greenville, S.C., pays an Iraqi teenager for the fruit during a joint patrol in a market in southeastern Baghdad, Aug. 18. Both paratroopers are assigned to to Company D, 1st Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division.
| Date Taken: | 08.18.2009 |
| Date Posted: | 08.22.2009 07:49 |
| Photo ID: | 197471 |
| VIRIN: | 090818-A-7125B-249 |
| Resolution: | 1800x1205 |
| Size: | 516.45 KB |
| Location: | BAGHDAD, IQ |
| Web Views: | 118 |
| Downloads: | 22 |
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