AH-64 Apache flying into FOB Q-West in Iraq. Notice the consentina wire and the sand berm constituting the perimeter of the base.

Armored vehicles preparing for a convoy from FOB Q-West.

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

City of Mosul and Mosul Air Base from the air. The airfield is in the middle ground with the city in the background.

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.

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

Gun truck from the Iraqi national guard. January 2005.

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

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.

Captured Iraqi armor sitting at FOB Morez.

Unmanned aerial drone in the center of the picture on the airfield at FOB Diamondback.

MSR Tampa from the air. The MSR is the Main Supply Route coming out of Turkey extending all the way to Badaq.

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.