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, emplaced and tested metal detectors at entrances to polling sites on Jan. 30 in the Abu T'shir community of the Rashid District in southern Baghdad. The 1st "Raider" Brigade increased security efforts throughout southern Baghdad, working with......
Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Brent Williams | 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division | 01.31.2009
Sgt. Yassir, an Iraqi national police officer with the 1st Battalion, 3rd Aburisha Brigade, attached to the 7th Brigade, 2nd National Police Division, showcases his finger, dyed in india ink to show that he voted in Iraq's provincial elections on Jan. 28. The Iraqi security forces in the Rashid District of southern Baghdad were provided several occasions between Jan. 28-31 to cast their vote......
Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Brent Williams | 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division | 01.30.2009
Joking with Iraqi police from Abu T'shir, 1st Lt. Isaac Hedtke, who hails from Monticello, Minn., and is the 2nd Platoon Leader for 7th Squadron, 10th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Multi-National Division - Baghdad, delivers metal detector wands on Jan. 30 to IP securing a polling site in the Abu T'shir community of the Rashid district in southern Baghdad.......
Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Brent Williams | 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division | 01.30.2009
Sgt. Jason McInerney, (left) from Plymouth, Ind.; Staff Sgt. Jason Kennedy, section leader from Riverside, Mich., and Sgt. Angel Martinez from Texas City, Texas; all cavalry scouts assigned to 2nd Platoon, 7th Squadron, 10th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Multi-National Division - Baghdad, string concertina wire on Jan. 30, around a polling site in the Abu......
Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Brent Williams | 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division | 01.30.2009
Staff Sgt. Jason Kennedy, a cavalry scout section leader from Riverside, Mich., assigned to 7th Squadron, 10th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Multi-National Division - Baghdad, uses his Humvee to move barricades in the Abu T'shir community of the Rashid District in southern Baghdad on Jan. 30. Soldiers of "Comanche" Troop made last minute changes to standing......
Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Brent Williams | 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division | 01.30.2009
An Iraqi citizen tells Capt. Sean Tennimon, commander of Troop C, 7th Squadron, 10th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Multi-National Division - Baghdad, about rockets found in his field months prior, Jan. 28, in the Abu T'shir community of the Rashid district in southern Baghdad. Coalition Forces are increasing their efforts to assist Iraqi Security Forces......
Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Brent Williams | 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division | 01.29.2009
Sgt. 1st Class Thomas Yaudas, a platoon sergeant from Austin, Texas, looks for potential areas of concealment along the rooftops of the Saha Apartments, Jan. 29, during polling site security assessments in the Saha community of the Rashid District in southern Baghdad. Yaudas and the Soldiers of Troop C, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Multi-National Division - Baghdad,......
Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Brent Williams | 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division | 01.29.2009
Spc. Victor Pulido-Gamez, a cavalry scout from Miami, assigned to Troop C, 7th Squadron, 10th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Multi-National Division - Baghdad, serves as turret gunner for his section during a security patrol in the Abu T'shir community of the Rashid District in southern Baghdad, Jan. 29. Soldiers of "Comanche" Troop increased security......