Gypsy farmers in a field between Mosul and FOB Q-West

IED damage done to a HUMVEE. The HUMVEE is loaded on a truck head south to FOB Balad

Inside the living quarters at Camp Virginia, Kuwait, December 2004.

Interior of a HUMVEE on convoy duty. If ambushed, the men on the side of the ambush were expected to crawl across the equipment and exit through the opposite side of the vehicle.

Interior of the crashed S.F. C-130 after engineers had blown the nose off to destroy all the sensitive equipment.

Interior of the living quarters at the airfield in Mosul (FOB Diamondback).

Iraqi ammo dump just outside the wire of FOB Q-West. Most of the bunkers are abandoned and people are living in some of them.

Iraqi cemetery along MSR Tampa between FOB Q-West and FOB Balad.

Iraqi civilians looking for work just outside the gate of FOB Q-West.

Iraqi guards at the rear gate of FOB Q-West looking south. Notice how flat the terrain is and the lack of distinguishing features.

White object in the center-right of the photo is a live 81 mm illumination round that went through Oakes' poncho and landed between his head and the Gunnery Sgt's head during a night firing in a rain storm.

Locals going through garbage discarded by the mess hall for 1/27 Marine regiment. They are pouring leftover milk out of the containers.