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Final pallets of equipment prepare to exit Iraq

CONTINGENCY OPERATING BASE ADDER, Iraq – With the drawdown of Operation New dawn, soldiers at the redistribution property assistance team yard are packing up the last pallets of excess equipment from units left on Contingency Operating Base Adder to ship out of Iraq, Nov. 27. “Our mission was to help the drawdown of Iraq,” said Staff Sgt. Gene Taylor, RPAT Yard non-commissioned officer in charge, 227th Quartermaster Company, from Morton,

The final days of Joint Base Balad

JOINT BASE BALAD, Iraq - Transferring Joint Base Balad to the government of Iraq was part of the largest military transition since World War II. Col. Brent Bigger, 332nd Expeditionary Mission Support Group commander, arrived at JBB four months prior to the transition in July 2011. “When I first arrived everything was go, go, go; operations, operations, operations,” said Bigger, who is deployed from the Pentagon. “I thought, ‘It doesn’t

Door Breach

Soldiers conduct room breaching drills by detonating C-4 plastic explosive during Engineer Core Demolition Task Training Aug. 11.

Umm Qasr

Iraqi Navy sailors prepare their patrol boat in Umm Qasr during the early morning for a joint exercise with the Kuwaiti Coast Guard, July 25.

Persian Gulf

Iraqi Navy sailors secure a Kuwaiti Coast Guard vessel during a joint exercise in the Persian Gulf, July 25. (Photo by Pvt. Andrew Slovensky)

Iraqi Navy sailors

Iraqi Soldiers

Soldiers with the 9th Iraqi Army Division Soldiers hand out bags containing food to local residents during a humanitarian aid food distribution

Iraqi Army humanitarian food distribution

Soldiers with the 9th Iraqi Army Division hand out bags containing food to local residents

Bell-407

An Iraqi Army Aviation Command, Squadron 21 ground crew member salutes a Bell-407 helicopter at takeoff, Taji Air Base, Iraq, July 12, 2011.

Mi-171 helicopter

An Iraqi Army Aviation Command, Squadron 15 ground crew member performs a marshals a Mi-171 helicopter prior to takeoff at Taji Air Base.

Got you covered!

Iraq – Members of 1st Kurdish Regional Guard Brigade lunge forward into the prone position during a squad ambush training exercise at the Manila Training Center in Kirkuk province, Iraq, June 23, 2011.

Counter-terrorism operations

Baghdad, Iraq- Iraqi Special Operations Forces (ISOF) train in preparation for counter-terrorism operations on Jan. 30.

CJSOTF-AP

Baghdad, Iraq- Iraqi Special Operations Forces (ISOF) train with the Iraqi Air Force on April 13.

ISOF

Baghdad, Iraq- Iraqi Special Operations Forces (ISOF) participate in Lion's Leap on April 26. Members of the Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force-Arabian Peninsula (CJSOTF-AP) advise, train, and assist Iraqi Security Forces during Operation New Dawn.

Coming In

Iraqi soldiers prepare to clear a room during a June 15 training exercise. Army photo by Spc. William A. Joeckel.

Iraq Special Forces commandos

Iraq Special Forces commandos with the 6th Regional Commando Battalion prepare to assault an objective during Operation Lions Leap at Khor Al Zubair, April 28, after being dropped off by Iraqi Air Force helicopters.