Photo by Sgt. Rome Lazarus | Joint Combat Camera Center Iraq | 05.20.2008
U.S. Marines with 1st platoon, Alpha Company, 2nd Light Armored Reconnaissance (2d LAR), Task Force Mech, stand guard as fellow Marines conduct a meeting in a nearby building in the Salad Ad Din Province, Iraq, May 20. U.S. Marines with 2d LAR are conducting missions to hunt down and rid the Northern part of Iraq of Insurgents, in an operation called "Defeat Al Qaida in the North"...