Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Brent Williams | 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division | 01.31.2009
Lt. Col. Troy Smith, commander, and Command Sgt. Maj. Russell Reimers, 7th Squadron, 10th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Multi-National Division - Baghdad, discuss the next polling site to visit during command inspections on Jan. 29 in the Abu T'shir and Saha communities of the Rashid District in southern Baghdad. Smith and Reimers circulated through the......
Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Brent Williams | 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division | 01.31.2009
Sgt. 1st Class Thomas Yaudas, a cavalry scout platoon sergeant from Austin, Texas, assigned to the 7th Squadron, 10th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Multi-National Division - Baghdad, pulls security during polling site inspections on Jan. 29 in the Abu T'shir community of the Rashid District in southern Baghdad. Yaudas and Soldiers of "Comanche" Troop doubled......
Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Brent Williams | 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division | 01.31.2009
Iraqi national policemen with the 1st Battalion, 3rd Aburisha Brigade, attached to the 7th Brigade, 2nd National Police Division, pull security on Jan. 30 at an intersection in the Abu T'shir community located in the Rashid District of southern Baghdad, while Soldiers of the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Multi-National Division - Baghdad, emplaced barriers to minimize traffic......
Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Brent Williams | 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division | 01.31.2009
Meeting with the headmaster of a primary school in the Abu T'shir community, 1st Lt. Udai from the 3rd Aburisha Brigade, attached to the 7th Bde., 2nd National Police Division, 14th Iraqi army Division; and 1st Lt. Isaac Hedtke, a native of Monticello, Minn., and platoon leader assigned to 7th Squadron, 10th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Multi-National......
Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Brent Williams | 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division | 01.31.2009
Soldiers of 2nd Platoon, Troop C, 7th Squadron, 10th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Multi-National Division - Baghdad, search for hidden weapons and munitions caches during pre-election security operations on Jan. 31 on the outskirts of the Abu T'shir community of the Rashid District in southern Baghdad. The Soldiers, part of the 1st "Raider" Brigade, have......
Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Brent Williams | 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division | 01.31.2009
Lt. Col. Troy Smith, commander of the 7th Squadron, 10th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Multi-National Division - Baghdad, speaks to an Iraqi police SWAT Team outside a polling site, Jan. 29, in the Saha community of the Rashid District in southern Baghdad. Smith, a native of Culpepper, Va., and the Soldiers of the 7th "Ghost" Sqdn. doubled their security......
Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Brent Williams | 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division | 01.31.2009
Sgt. Morgan Mitchell, a cavalry scout from South Jordan, Utah, assigned to Troop C, 7th Squadron, 10th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Multi-National Division - Baghdad, checks identification cards and proof of employment for Iraqi residents of the Abu T'shir community in the Rashid District of southern Baghdad on Jan. 31. Mitchell and the Soldiers of......
Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Brent Williams | 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division | 01.31.2009
Sgt. 1st Class Carmen Centennial, a platoon sergeant from San Antonio, assigned to Troop C, 7th Squadron, 10th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Multi-National Division - Baghdad, checks identification cards and papers for an Iraqi citizen violating a ban in support of Iraq's Provincial Elections Jan. 31. Centennial and the Soldiers of "Comanche" Troop doubled......