Gung Ho! Pictures

Wednesday, August 24, 2005

U.S. Army Capt. Arne Oas examines a swell on a young girl's nose during the Medical Civil Action Program (MedCap) at Fenjan Village near Baghdad, Iraq, on July 26, 2005. Every few weeks the U.S. medical staff provides health care and assistance to civilians in different locations. Oas is assigned to 3rd Squadron, 7th Cavalry Regiment. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Reynaldo Ramon)

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A Soldier from the 3rd Squadron, 7th Cavalry Regiment, hands out toys to children and cold water to the Iraqi mothers waiting to be examined during a Medical Civil Action Program (MEDCAP) visit at Fenjan Village near Baghdad, Iraq, on July 26, 2005. Every few weeks the medical staff provides health care and assistance to civilians in different locations. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Reynaldo Ramon)

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AR RAMADI Iraq – A platoon of Iraqi Security Forces and Marines with Company A, 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, get into position during a mission in the city here July 25. Marines with the Camp Pendleton, Calif., -based infantry battalion and ISF conducted a battalion-wide operation in the city’s marketplace, where they searched vehicles and personnel for weapons and improvised explosive making material.

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Friday, August 05, 2005

Marette Winchester and her daughter Alexandra, 2, of Fairview Park, walk along the ever-growing makeshift memorial on the fence surrounding the 3rd Battalion, 25th Marines headquarters in Brook Park, Ohio on Friday, Aug. 5, 2005. The suburban Cleveland-based battalion was hard hit with casualties this week in Iraq. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)




Brook Park locals walk past a makeshift memorial. Five Marines from the 25th Marine Regiment, a reserve unit based in Ohio, were killed August 1 in small-arms fire outside Haditha, Iraq. Fourteen more from the regiment were killed August 3, when an explosive detonated near their amphibious assault vehicle.(AFP/Getty Images/Michael Williams)




Marine Sgt. Curtis Gibson looks at the ever-growing makeshift memorial on the fence surrounding the 3rd Battalion, 25th Marines headquarters in Brook Park, Ohio on Friday, Aug. 5, 2005. The suburban Cleveland-based battalion was hard hit with casualties this week in Iraq. Gibson is a member of the 3rd Battalion, 25th Marines and works at the headquarters. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)




US Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), reads a letter at a makeshift memorial 04 August 2005 in Brook Park, Ohio. Bagpipes wailed 'Amazing Grace' and the song 'God Bless America' echoed off skyscrapers as workers in the Midwestern city of Cleveland paused to remember 15 Ohio marines killed in Iraq(AFP/Getty Images/File)




A simple sign drawn by a child tells the story of the presence of the ever-growing makeshift memorial on the fence surrounding the 3rd Battalion, 25th Marines headquarters in Brook Park, Ohio on Friday, Aug. 5, 2005. The suburban Cleveland-based battalion was hard hit with casualties this week in Iraq. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)

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Thursday, August 04, 2005

A U.S. Marine climbs into an Amphibious Assault Vehicle, or Antrak in Barwana, near Haditha, Iraq, Thursday, Aug. 4, 2005. A roadside bomb Wednesday in Barwana killed 14 Marines and a civilian interpreter riding in an Antrak, in the deadliest roadside bombing suffered by American forces in the Iraq war. (AP Photo/Jacob Silberberg)

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U.S. Marines from Lima Company of the 3rd Battalion, 25th Regiment from Ohio, watch news reports in an Iraqi house where they are staying in Barwana, near Haditha, Iraq, on Al-Jazeera about fellow Marines Thursday, Aug. 4, 2005. Fourteen Marines from the 3rd Battalion, 25th Marines _ were killed Wednesday along with a civilian interpreter in the deadliest roadside bombing of U.S. troops in Iraq. (AP Photo/Jacob Silberberg)

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Memorial ribbons are seen placed on a fence as military personnel walk out of the Navy and Marine Corps Reserve Center Thursday, Aug. 4, 2005, in Columbus, Ohio, where nine of 14 Marines who were killed in Iraq were based. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)

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