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

Lt. O'Rourke (center of picture) deploying troops during a firefight south of Hue.

Dorms at the Defense Language Institute West Coast in Monterrey, California.

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

Engineers placing C-4 around the bobby-trapped U.S. 105 mm howitzer round that Oakes stepped on.

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.

Prior to troops advancing through the tree line, the flame tanks burnt out all the bobby-traps.

Flooding in Camp Dong Son after a typhoon in September 1968.

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.

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.