Looking up the ramp that lead down to the underground power plant at FOB Q-West.

Mercenaries from in the parking lot of FOB Q-West only mess hall.

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.

Oakes standing in front of a Blackhawk helicopter.

FOB Q-West perimeter consisting of a chain-link fence topped with barbwire backed up by a dirt berm. Notice the dump on the left consisting of destroyed Iraqi vehicles.

Entrance ramp to an underground power plant at FOB Q-West. In the background is Area 51, where civilian fuel trucks from Turkey would wait to be unloaded.

Area 51, the parking / staging area for civilian 7,500 gallon tanker trucks.

Constructing a perimeter of rails around the motor pool at the HHD 1225th Battalion HQ.

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

Albanian soldiers stationed at FOB Diamondback.

Civilians houses overlooking FOB Diamondback in Mosul.

Captured Iraqi armor just outside the wire of FOB Diamondback.