Combat Camera: Cavalry Soldiers Engage Insurgents

Spc. Steven M. Devries, a medic assigned to the 1st Platoon, Company B, 1-12 Combined Arms Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, and an Iraqi army soldier assigned to the 5th Iraqi Army Division, take cover from small arms fire behind a Bradley Fighting Vehicle, March 28, 2007, in the Tahrir neighborhood of Baqubah, Iraq. Soldiers of the 1st Platoon Company B and Iraqi soldiers encountered sporadic fire for about two hours during a house-clearing mission in Tahrir. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Antonieta Rico

Spc. Steven M. Devries, a medic assigned to the 1st Platoon, Company B, 1-12 Combined Arms Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, points the direction that small arms fire came from to a fellow soldier, March 28, 2007, in the Tahrir neighborhood of Baqubah, Iraq. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Antonieta Rico

A soldier assigned to the 1st Platoon, Company B, 1-12 Combined Arms Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, guards a street in the neighborhood of Tahrir in Baqubah, Iraq, March 28, 2007. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Antonieta Rico

Pvt. Eric Rundquist and Pvt. Jason Taylor, both assigned to the 1st Platoon, Company B, 1-12 Combined Arms Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, hold on to a strap inside a Bradley Fighting Vehicle after the Bradley hit a roadside bomb. The soldiers were en route to the Forward Operating Base Gabe medical station after one of their fellow soldiers was injured when they encountered sporadic sniper fire for about two hours during a house-clearing mission in the Tahrir neighborhood of Baqubah, March 28, 2007. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Antonieta Rico

Spc. Orlando Jesus Garcia, 1st Platoon, Company B, 1-12 Combined Arms Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, and an Iraqi soldier with the 5th Iraqi Army Division await news, outside the Forward Operating Base Gabe aid station, on the condition of two soldiers injured during a firefight in the neighborhood of Tahrir, March 28, 2007. One American soldier and one Iraqi soldier were injured when soldiers of 1st Platoon, Company B, and the Iraqi army encountered sporadic small arms fire for about two hours during a house clearing mission in the neighborhood of Tahrir in Baqubah, Iraq, March 28, 2007. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Antonieta Rico

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