Paratroopers of the 1st Battalion,
505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division in
Salah Ad Din Province, Iraq .
Detecting something to their left, perhaps an explosion or burst
of small-arms fire, they take up an alert posture of ready response.
Visible in the background is the ornate minaret of the Al-Fatah
mosque, the ever-burning flare stack of the Bayji Oil Refinery,
and the prominent Jabal-Makhul mountain range.
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