Civilians houses overlooking FOB Diamondback in Mosul.

Commercial airliner that carried Oakes and the other men to Kuwait.

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

Convoy traveling down MSR Tampa. On-coming traffic has stopped to permit the convoy to go. Note that the convoy travels down the center of the road to avoid IEDs on the edge of the road.

Crash S.F. C-130 at FOB Q-West. In the foreground is the hole that the plane hit upon land with debris from the plane still in the hole.

Crashed Special Forces C-130 on the FOB Q-West runway on December 31, 2004.

DURMO yard at FOB Balad. This is the area where all the discarded equipment is brought; everything from tanks to refrigerators.

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.

FOB Q-West from the air. The white object in the middle ground is water palletized at the end of the runway.

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.

Golf driving range the men constructed on FOB Q-West.

Gun truck from the Iraqi national guard. January 2005.