THE TENSION: Combat Camera: 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team Moves, Communicates

A Stryker Soldier secures a market area in a village just north of Baghdad June 5. The Soldier is with Company A, 4th Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, from Fort Lewis, Wash. Photographer: Sgt. Antonieta Rico, 5th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment, Tikrit

Sgt. George Wojtowicz walks through a village just north of Baghdad June 5. Wojtowicz is with Company A, 4th Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, from Fort Lewis, Wash. Photographer: Sgt. Antonieta Rico, 5th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment, Tikrit

First Lt. Daniel Lowe and his interpreter walk through a village just north of Baghdad June 5. Lowe is with Company A, 4th Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, from Fort Lewis, Wash. Photographer: Sgt. Antonieta Rico, 5th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment, Tikrit

Spc. Jairo Palacios talks with some boys in a village north of Baghdad June 5. Palacios is with Company A, 4th Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, from Fort Lewis, Wash. Photographer: Sgt. Antonieta Rico, 5th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment, Tikrit

Staff Sgt. David Howard patrols a village north of Baghdad, in the Taji area, June 5. Howard is with Company A, 4th Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, from Fort Lewis, Wash. Photographer: Sgt. Antonieta Rico, 5th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment, Tikrit

Stryker Soldiers from Fort Lewis, Wash., patrol a village north of Baghdad June 5. The Soldiers are with Company A, 4th Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division. Photographer: Sgt. Antonieta Rico, 5th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment, Tikrit